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DigitalOcean's Engineering Code of Conduct

• drugme 8y ago
  No feigning surprise No condescending well-actually’s Egads - I thought this was going to be about serious matters (like the climate of toxic sexual behavior that pervades our industry). But no - it's about thought control and enforcing a culture of fake niceness. Because -- or "well, actually" -- sometimes surprise is a perfectly normal human emotion. And "well actually" is just... a fill phrase that pops out of your mouth. Nothing more. On the more nuanced side -- I get the point about how these behaviors can seem out of tune, or rub some people the wrong way. So I welcome helpful discourse about them. It's when you feel you have to make a "code of conduct" to regulate them is where it starts to seem controlling and, basically, unhuman. And very corporate.
  • hssys 8y ago
    Interesting and somewhat paranoid reaction. To me these codes discourage behaviours which aren't conducive to a healthy and productive working environment.
    • jetru 8y ago
      You just did a microaggression by calling them paranoid.
• lokimedes 8y ago
  ...and lastly, please have your parents pick you up at 5pm at the latest.
• llampx 8y ago
  Are these codes of conduct for engineers, by engineers? They seem like someone is stereotyping engineers as having no social graces whatsoever and making rules in a heavy-handed fashion.
• towaway1138 8y ago
  Wish more companies would post theirs. Makes it easy to spot places I wouldn't be caught dead working at.