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No, what we need to do is stop listening to fragile cry babies. If you ever work for a real company with real deadlines you'll get a lot worse than what he gav
by alien_at_work 9y ago
No, what we need to do is stop listening to fragile cry babies. If you ever work for a real company with real deadlines you'll get a lot worse than what he gave.
And he only responded this way after 3 weeks of unacceptable behavior. If he blew up out of nowhere after the very first report of a potential problem before it was even confirmed, that would be a different story (though that's something that probably happens in real companies every day).
- ForHackernews 9y ago> If you ever work for a real company with real deadlines you'll get a lot worse than what he gave. I think you must have worked for some horribly unprofessional companies. I've worked places with tight deadlines before, but berating your colleagues or employees with profanity is just ridiculous. I would walk out on the spot if anyone spoke to me the way Linus did in that email.
- alien_at_work 9y ago>I think you must have worked for some horribly unprofessional companies. I have for sure, but the worst of those companies was better than fortune 5 (if I said exactly, you'd know which company), so while primitive they obviously manage to get results that coddling hasn't. EDIT: And as for walking out, if I were your manager and you broke customer systems and made excuses for 3 weeks about it I wouldn't be yelling at you. I'd be firing you.
- ForHackernews 9y agoFiring somebody for lousy performance & making excuses is an entirely correct and professional response. Berating and profanely insulting them is not.
- xelxebar 9y agoThat sounds like a horrendously selfish attitude. The problem was fixed; nobody was harmed; lessons were learned. The sum total of effect of this "Linus tirade" seems overwhelmingly positive. But just because he didn't conform to your arbitrary standards, you write him off? Linus is more humanist in this case than your policy apparently allows.
- ForHackernews 9y agoYou have no idea who was harmed. Treating other human beings with this kind of flagrant disrespect is childish and unprofessional. It's ridiculous how many people are making excuses for his behavior here.
- ForHackernews 9y agoAs an experiment, let's see if this comment gets flagged... You stupid, mouthbreathing motherfucker. How can you sit there and say "nobody was harmed"? I was harmed by having to read that word-vomit, and I've been further harmed having to respond to your boundless idiocy. You have no idea how many people have been put off working on open source projects because they'd rather contribute nothing than have to interact with human shitstains like yourself or Linus. How's this for a positive comment? Jesus Christ I hope I never have to work alongside a worthless rat bastard like you. Your family should be ashamed to have raised such a sack of shit. [Look how clear and direct I've been! Isn't it great!]
- grzm 9y agoWhat is the point of your experiment? Insults like this are routinely flagged on HN. If it weren't, I suspect it would only be because it hadn't been seen by enough members or the mods.
- ForHackernews 9y agoMy point is that tons of people in this thread seem to think this style of communication is really great because it's emphatic and gets the point across clearly or something. I'm trying to highlight that maybe it's not so great if you're on the receiving end of it. I'm sure a bunch of hypocrites will flag me down, though.