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Funny too:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,803441,00.html

German Bank Probes Staff Over Rio Sex Claims

German mortgage bank Wüstenrot took 50 high-performing sales staff to Rio last year as a reward for their good work, but is now being embarrassed by reports that some of them had sex with prostitutes on the trip. A tour bus apparently took employees directly to a shady nightclub, while one director was allegedly caught on the beach with a prostitute.

Germany's oldest building society, Wüstenrot, has been left red-faced by revelations that several of its staff visited a brothel during an expenses-paid trip to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro to reward them for their services.

The company said in a statement it was checking whether individual staff members broke the company's code of conduct on the six-day trip from April 27 to May 2 last year, which was organized "to promote and reward the especially excellent performance of our sales staff."

According to a report in business daily Handelsblatt on Tuesday, the company flew 50 employees to Rio. The firm's auditors later found out that between 14 and 20 of them had visited the nightclub "Barbarella," an establishment where people go to meet prostitutes. At least three employees, including senior ones, had gone to rooms with prostitutes, the newspaper reported.

"There was some heavy partying in the hotel corridors," Handelsblatt quoted one trip participant as saying. "The Brazilian police seized one of our directors at night on the beach in the company of a prostitute."

Sources close to the company said Wüstenrot had organized a bus tour through Rio after which up to two dozen staff members had decided of their own accord to hit the nightclub and make contact with prostitutes. Some 40 people who were on the trip have given statements.

The company said the nocturnal activities of some of its staff members were their own private activities. "We don't support, organize or finance any activities that breach our code of contact," Wüstenrot said in a statement on Monday. "But we are taking the matter very seriously. That is why we are currently checking intensively whether individual participants breached our codes of conduct or legal rules." It said it would take disciplinary measures against staff if any wrongdoing was found.

In May, German insurance firm Ergo made headlines when it emerged that it had hosted a sex party for high-performing staff members in a bathhouse in Budapest, Hungary, in 2007.

'Ferried to a Brothel'

According to Handelsblatt, the female tour guide had recommended the nightclub to Wüstenrot staff. "The bus doors opened and around half the group got out, including departmental managers and directors," the newspaper quoted a member of the group as saying. "I thought: That's unbelievable that Wüstenrot is ferrying us to a brothel here."

According to Wüstenrot, the official itinerary consisted of tourist destinations such as Sugarloaf mountain and the Maracana football stadium. The company said it expected its staff to stick to company codes of conduct but that it it "was neither desirable nor possible to monitor the private lives of employees."

In order to prevent a recurrence, Wüstenrot has scrapped corporate visits to exotic destinations. "As a first measure, it was decided that from 2012 only destinations in Germany will be used for incentive trips," the company said.

Wüstenrot is Germany's second-largest building society with 3 million customers and contracts totalling €100 billion.

Bild newspaper printed what it said was a photo of a Wüstenrot employee standing on a beach, his face pixelated, surrounded by three attractive young Brazilian women in bikinis.

"Who knows: Perhaps some of the prostitutes now have a Wüstenrot mortgage savings contract," the newspaper quipped.

[QUOTE=Sangue Bon; 1226819]Funny too:

[url]http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0[/url]

1518, 803441, 00. Html.

German Bank Probes Staff Over Rio Sex Claims. .[/QUOTE]Should be investigated for going to Barbarella rather than Luomo or MC.

Had a look at the Bild pictures, couldn't fault a man for spending some time with the 2 mulatas in the pictures. Hope they get off than get fired (other than those that went to Barbarella)

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In order to prevent a recurrence, Wüstenrot has scrapped corporate visits to exotic destinations."As a first measure, it was decided that from 2012 only destinations in Germany will be used for incentive trips," the company said.[/QUOTE]

Hmmmmm,

ABSOLUTLY NO chance of finding any brothels in a GERMAN city is there?

Yeh, RIGHT!

Hotman

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First try uploading photos, apologies if it didn't work.

Any visa service? Seems there is not even a Brazilian embassy in Afghanistan.

Will he have to send his passport to a Visa service? To a consulate? Which one? Then maybe he cannot travel to the US if he has no passport?

He will arrive in a few weeks and just found out he needs a visa.

[QUOTE=Brazil Specialist; 1234469]Any visa service? Seems there is not even a Brazilian embassy in Afghanistan.

Will he have to send his passport to a Visa service? To a consulate? Which one? Then maybe he cannot travel to the US if he has no passport?

He will arrive in a few weeks and just found out he needs a visa.[/QUOTE]If he is in the military then he will have to come back to US soil first anyway. And a visa only takes a few days. So it would be best for him to send his passport to a service once he gets home unless there is a Brazilian consulate in his city where he can go directly. Better make sure he even has a passport. Most active duty military people do not have one. If he is a contractor then he definitely has one.

[QUOTE=Pilfers22; 1227553]This looks like it might be the perfect solution to carrying a digital camera into the termas. A digital camera flash drive:

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First try uploading photos, apologies if it didn't work.[/QUOTE]Every cellphone basically has a camera in it now, and I haven't seen issues with mobiles in termas recently.

Regarding the Building Society german thing below, why was the director "seized on the beach by Brazilian police"?

[quote=eric cartman; 1234708]every cellphone basically has a camera in it now, and i haven't seen issues with mobiles in termas recently.

regarding the building society german thing below, why was the director "seized on the beach by brazilian police"?[/quote]good question. it is explained nowhere.

most likely: police saw a gringo with a couple of young brazilian chicks. hoping to score big bribes for **** conviction, they approached. girl had no i'd. you get hauled to the police station (or pay up a lot of money). eventually mom brings the i'd and you are released from police station. or maybe if you pay off police they actually check her i'd online and find out she is over 18. or you pay a lot more if she is not.

i keep telling people: any girl looking under 35 years of age, in your apartment or even talking on the street must have i'd at all times proving she is over 18.

So I haven't been in Brazil since last October. This past Friday I tried to use my debit card for my daily mocha and it was declined. Immediately I thought that was strange so I went online and sure enough there were rental car purchases in Florianopolis, restaurants and hotels with unfamiliar Brazilian Portuguese names. Total damage was approximately $1, 200. So I call my bank and apparently they blocked the card bc there were several other attempts at other vendors where the card was declined. Fortunately I received a provincial debit to my account for all the funds after I went through the claims process.

Point of my report I believe someone posted a prior report warning about a scam with copying credit cards some time ago. I do remember at Meia Pattaca a waiter taking my card and not swiping it in front of me and returning with my bill. Very unusual practice.

Thought I'd share as this is still going on.

[QUOTE=Safado69; 1237366]So I haven't been in Brazil since last October. This past Friday I tried to use my debit card for my daily mocha and it was declined. Immediately I thought that was strange so I went online and sure enough there were rental car purchases in Florianopolis, restaurants and hotels with unfamiliar Brazilian Portuguese names. Total damage was approximately $1, 200. So I call my bank and apparently they blocked the card bc there were several other attempts at other vendors where the card was declined. Fortunately I received a provincial debit to my account for all the funds after I went through the claims process.

Point of my report I believe someone posted a prior report warning about a scam with copying credit cards some time ago. I do remember at Meia Pattaca a waiter taking my card and not swiping it in front of me and returning with my bill. Very unusual practice.

Thought I'd share as this is still going on.[/QUOTE]It's not just happening in Brazil. In November there was fraud on my HSBC check card in the States. I asked how they were able to pick it up since I travel so much and do not have an established pattern. I don't think they even knew. They sent me another card and lo and behold on December 24th the same thing happened with the new card. That time they sent me a fraud claim form that I had to sign and send back. The first time they just said okay you didn't do it. It is really strange because I generally only use the account to send out checks to pay bills online and make withdrawals from overseas ATMs. The last time I had used the first card in an ATM was in October in Colombia. I only make a Point of Sale purchase with it every now and then. Before November this has never happened to me. Then to strike two months in a row? Before that every time they contacted me when fraud was in question it was actually me using my card.

In this week's print edition also.

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I was watching the movie City of Men this weekend and I had a question about a song on the soundtrack. The scene where Acerola reluctantly attends the baile funk party at the favela that they ran to when theirs was captured. Does anyone know the name of the baile funk song that they were dancing to? I looked on Amazon for the soundtrack but all the songs from the movie are not listed.

[quote=brazil specialist; 1234733]good question. it is explained nowhere.

most likely: police saw a gringo with a couple of young brazilian chicks. hoping to score big bribes for **** conviction, they approached. girl had no i'd. you get hauled to the police station (or pay up a lot of money). eventually mom brings the i'd and you are released from police station. or maybe if you pay off police they actually check her i'd online and find out she is over 18. or you pay a lot more if she is not.

i keep telling people: any girl looking under 35 years of age, in your apartment or even talking on the street must have i'd at all times proving she is over 18.[/quote]or it might be a situation where he was caught fucking a gdp on the beach at night. from my window on bolivar, many times i have seen the police hide behind the bushes / shrubs of closed cafes and watch couples on the beach across atlantica ave. i am sure they are trying to bust them for having sex at night on the beach.

why would a girl need i'd if you are only having a conversation with her on the street? what law are you breaking by talking to a girl who is ****? i only ask because many times i have stood in front of meia pataca and bought peanuts and gum from some of the young girls, i would be interested to know what law i am breaking by doing that.

For parties and hot women, which is better Rio or Sao Pablo?

Thank you in advance

Ok guys, I've been in Rio for a couple of weeks now. On my third day here I met this woman that a friend introduced me to. We met in the afternoon for coffee, and then we moved to the beach. Her parents live in Copa, so that is where we met. She is totally not a GDP (she works in one the best restaurants in Rio as a Chef) , and we had a great time. I usually hate Copa because of the way they treat gringos there. Anyway, after coffee we had a few drinks at a dive bar she knows. Then she wants to walk on the beach. By this time it is around 8:30 or 9:00 at night. The lights were on and bright, but it had been raining so there weren't too many people around. So we drop down in the sand and almost immediately she is unzipping my fly. Of course I am rock hard by this time and she flips me over and starts going down on me. She had a short summer dress on (halter top type) and she rolls me over on top of her (somehow her dress top came down and she was all legs in the air!). So proceeded to go to it right there on the beach (with a very short pause to condom up). It was so hot! Here's the best (worst) part; when we finished, we heard applause from nearby. Unbeknownst to us, a small crowd had gathered and they were totally just standing there watching. She seemed to love it (in fact, now that I am thinking about it I think this may be her thing).

Anyway, this could only happen in Rio. It was dangerous, but I ticked a good few boxes off my bucket list that night.

If anyone wants to get together I will be in Rio for a few more weeks.