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Insulting your coworkers and users is childish, and that's exactly what this post is. "More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK" "was hailed
by colinmhayes 5y ago
Insulting your coworkers and users is childish, and that's exactly what this post is. "More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK" "was hailed as “efficient” (it wasn't)." In fact that's pretty much all it is. There are plenty of ways to complain without burning every bridge around you.
- vanusa 5y ago"More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK" I read this as simply being honest (in the "Dutch" sense). It wasn't like he was shit-talking his former co-workers, per se. He's just saying he had a radically different appraisal of technical viability of the flagship product. Which, again, was simply the truth as he saw it.
- colinmhayes 5y agoSimply being honest doesn't mean you're not unneededly insulting everyone around you. He can say he had a radically different appraisal of the technical viability of mySQL without calling everyone he works with an idiot.
- vanusa 5y agoHe's not saying, or even insinuating, that they're "idiots". Really, look at the dictionary definition of the term, please.
- colinmhayes 5y agoEveryone who works on mySQL is going to read this to mean he thinks they're idiots, and that's what matters.
- vanusa 5y agoYou don't know that -- and even if some of them do, that doesn't mean that interpretation is justified.