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Why does it seem like people working in tech have such a hard time keeping their personal and professional lives separate? I'm not just talking about incidents
by infodroid 10y ago
Why does it seem like people working in tech have such a hard time keeping their personal and professional lives separate?
I'm not just talking about incidents of poor conduct.
It's also the fact people are exchanging insults and serious accusations over blog posts.
It's not like the observers have the facts and evidence to make fair judgements on these matters.
The whole trial by social media is really embarrassing to the profession.
- MollyR 10y agoProbably because people have been encouraged to think of coworkers as friends or family. My personal suspicion is simply the rise of social media enables mob like behavior over due process and rule of law.
- incongruity 10y agoAnd, I'd bet some of that encouragement happens because work-life balance is non-existent in many places and/or many people in tech simply don't have a deep social network outside of work because they tend to be younger/unmarried/relocated, etc.
- pjc50 10y agoOther industries do it in the old news media instead. And this isn't quite so much "industry" as "activism". If it were a professional setting, there would be an HR process to deal with it.
- misiti3780 10y agoi have been wondering this exact same thing too. this seems like it is isolated mostly to the tech community.
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