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Getting stuff done requires working with people. Working with people requires basic manners including a willingness to be polite. Sure, a lot of requirements of

Getting stuff done requires working with people. Working with people requires basic manners including a willingness to be polite. Sure, a lot of requirements of manners are often irrational and make little or no sense to the technically minded. But it's the cost of participating in society. Whining about not being able to say certain words is about the least productive thing you can do, and makes you appear to prioritize your desire to be a jerk over getting things done. So let's get some work done and stop whining about how we might have to think about other people and consider the impact of our words.

CaptSpify 10y ago
> Whining about not being able to say certain words is about the least productive thing you can do, and makes you appear to prioritize your desire to be a jerk over getting things done. It's more about not wanting to "walk on eggshells". I don't want a speaker to spend >1/2 of his time prepping for the political side of a presentation. I want a speaker who spends the majority of his time on the technical details. If you want to "get stuff done", sure, sometimes you have to be more polite than you want. But the other side of the coin is that you also have to be thick-skinned. If every little thing "offends" you, then you are not going to get any work done either, and your actively preventing others from doing so.
ori_b 10y ago
> Getting stuff done requires working with people. Working with people requires basic manners including a willingness to be polite. Getting stuff done requires working with people. Working with people requires basic tolerance, including a willingness to ignore different political viewpoints, jokes that fall flat, and different cultures and communication styles.