Tech bros wail that that no one will date them, despite colossal salaries: Called me the devil

Pour one out for the tech bros — or at least for their dating lives.Though working in tech used to be considered a romantic flex for male suitors — with prestigious titles, flexible hours and sky-high salaries — young, rolling-in-it tech bros recently wailed to Wired magazine that no one wants them anymore.One 23-year-old tech whiz, who went by the pseudonym Gary, shared that when he brings up his work as an engineer for the Miami-based data analytics company Palantir, women recoil.One even called him “the devil.”Even when Gary claimed that he’d taken the $250,000 a year gig to pay off his parents’ medical debt to gain sympathy, he was still rejected.

(Maybe the girls could smell the lie on him even more than the Axe body spray…)“‘[That is] not an excuse to work somewhere like that,’” Gary remembered his not-so-romantic interest saying.Even Gary’s friends are embarrassed by his job, he admitted in the article, saying that on guys’ nights out, he’s “not allowed” to mention his workplace, lest he hurts their collective chances of attracting women.“I get nervous now.I don’t bring it up,” he added.29-year-old James, a Tesla worker in San Francisco, blabbed to Wired that women often approach his political views with skepticism — even before knowing what they are.

He added that the issue has “come up repeatedly” as he dates.As a self-described “moderate liberal or moderate progressive” who “always votes blue and always will, probably,” James admitted feeling offended on a third date, when a woman he’d originally matched with on the exclusive app Raya questioned whether he had voted for Donald Trump in 2024.When he shot back, he recalled her saying that “‘you work for Tesla, so I just need to check.'”“If I don’t immediately say that I don’t like Elon Musk, people think that I’m conservative, which is generally not something that people like in San Francisco,” James continued.Lori Zaslow, the co-found...