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> Work is a place to get work done I can understand that it is annoying and I haven't been to the US for a while to understand how things became but I think yo
by oezi 5y ago
> Work is a place to get work done
I can understand that it is annoying and I haven't been to the US for a while to understand how things became but I think you are missing that for minorities and women work was never just a place to get work done, but also a place to have to fear discrimination, sexual harassment, glass ceilings and power balances tilted to old white men.
I think your discomfort with corporate measures to somewhat balance this might be a tenth of the discomfort of the old days even when they didn't affect you.
- crackercrews 5y ago> I think you are missing that for minorities and women work was never just a place to get work done, but also a place to have to fear discrimination, sexual harassment, glass ceilings and power balances tilted to old white men. Maybe for some women minorities, but this is not a universal perspective. The most successful people I know are all women and/or minorities/immigrants.
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- joshuamorton 5y agoNote that what you said here doesn't at all contradict what GP said. Both comments can be completely true.
- crackercrews 5y agoGP made a categorical statement. I pointed out that it is not categorically true.
- joshuamorton 5y agoAnd I pointed out that your statement doesn't actually contradict the categorical. The successful minorities you know may well be successful despite such challenges.
- crackercrews 5y agoRead my first sentence.
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- pm90 5y agoWomen are still underpaid when you look at wages across the economy. That you know of many successful women doesn’t really mean much. Even in tech, we’ve seen so many instances of outright harassment, persistent wage gaps, and women leaving the field in droves because of hostility and glass ceilings in the workplace.
- tasha0663 5y ago> I haven't been to the US for a while I can fill you in. My workplace tried to get us to stop using "master branch", "blacklist/whitelist", "dummy value", and "sanity check" among others. The doublethink involved with having mandatory third-party security training that uses "blacklist/whitelist" and then having to mince your words to discuss the curriculum in the office... it's lovely.
- bennysomething 5y agoA contractor at my place spent two days gets a master branch renamed to main. Definitely defeating racism. Pathetic really.
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoSanity check? Wow.
- desmosxxx 5y agobanned at my company as well. I believe under the of blanket of abilism
- throwaway_4ever 5y agoNewspeak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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