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Painting all of your employees in a branded moniker isn't a great way to start off. It's necessary in this case. If it isn't made clear that the word for some
by cperciva 9y ago
Painting all of your employees in a branded moniker isn't a great way to start off.
It's necessary in this case. If it isn't made clear that the word for someone who works at Stripe is "Stripe", then people will apply common grammatical conventions and call them "Stripers"... which has an unfortunate autocorrection.
- Sleeep 9y agoWhy not just "employee?"
- pmiller2 9y agoHow about "people?"
- cperciva 9y ago"Employees of Stripe" gets cumbersome after a while.
- Sleeep 9y agoUm, the vast majority of companies don't have cutesy nicknames of their employees yet manage to write thousands of documents about them without any problems. If I'm talking to someone uninitiated and I say "I am a Stripe" they would look at me like am have 30 heads. Not a good way to make outside friends. I would say "I work at the payment processing company Stripe."
- reificator 9y agoI wouldn't assume they're called Stripers, I'd assume they're called employees. I don't get the whole "Stripes" thing. Nor do I get "Whovian" or "Dead Head” or anything in-between. You work somewhere/watch something/listen to something, that doesn't require a cutesy label. (IMHO of course, your results may vary.)
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