Dating Help For Nuclear Geeks

An anonymous reader writes "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken pity on it's loverlorn engineers and is now offering to help find dates for them. From the article: 'Jim McDermott, chief human capital officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, thinks he's found a foolproof way to convince young engineers to come to his agency: Find them dates. "There are incentives, and then there are incentives," McDermott told a crowd of human resources officials at the HCMF Conference in Arlington, Va., earlier today. "When we’re hiring, we say, 'Is there a significant other in the picture'; If there’s no significant other, I tell them, 'We can help.''"

Hookers

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

I think "We have hookers." would be an even better incentive.

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[gstoddart]

I think "We have hookers." would be an even better incentive.

Congratulations, there may be no need for further comments in this thread. I think you've summed up what we were all thinking. ;-)

Cheers

Re:forget the blackjack!

[Fulcrum of Evil]

I'm disappointed - this was a perfect opportunity for a Bender quote

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[Garridan]

Oh, it's even worse than that:

“Now, engineers study a lot in college,” McDermott said. “They neglect very important extracurricular activities. My girls went to school with engineers, [and] they said, ‘Dad, they don’t know how to dance, they don’t know how to dress, they don’t even know how to talk.’ ”

Want to work here? You'll have to date my daughter.

The irony..

[bguiz]

.. is that it appears that the HR department is charge of this. I certainly don't trust HR types with lots of trivial things - let alone finding your "significant other"!

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[SunTzuWarmaster]

You laugh, but many people meet their significant other in the workplace. If they could just promise coed social activities, I know _many_ people that would be attracted to their workplace.

I recently graduated college with an engineering degree and just MEETING people was a huge bitch. The short version is that everything is working against the engineer early on:
1 - Most people you meet are engineers/computer scientists. This means 90% male. We had 12 girls in my graduating high school magnet program (1

Nuclear Geeks dating

[cmcmark76]

Great! They should be doing their nuclear stuff (fission) but now they want to do fusion! NRC needs to stick to their core mission and educate their nukes about getting nookie at the work place! Please see: http://www.helium.com/items/1621384-dating-a-coworker [helium.com] and: http://www.helium.com/items/876196-should-a-manager-date-an-employee [helium.com] Thanks for reading and please share the link as part of the Starving Writer Experiment!