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How embarrassing. I couldn’t even begin someone asking me to refer to them as a metamate. I don’t think I am capable of taking that scenario seriously.
by mhoad 5y ago
How embarrassing. I couldn’t even begin someone asking me to refer to them as a metamate. I don’t think I am capable of taking that scenario seriously.
- Spivak 5y agoEmployee names are always cringy at first. You have to get over the irony hump and then Googler, Xoogler, Softies, Twits, Yahoos, and Amazonian become normal after a bit. You know CEX the train company — they’re CEX workers.
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- earleybird 5y agoMan, I'd work there just for the business card. Some things you really can't buy.
- fargle 5y agosigh... I thought things like "customer engagement expert", "associate", or "experience consultant", etc. were bad enough.
- kagaw 5y agoLol. I worked at CEX.
- School-Cotton 5y ago> Googler, Xoogler, Softies, Twits, Yahoos, and Amazonian become normal after a bit I’ve worked in the tech industry for 8.5 years now — including two as an “Amazonian” — and those are just as cringey to me as they ever have been.
- drexlspivey 5y agoRunner up was Metabros
- dymk 5y agoThat legitimately surprises me. When I worked there a few years ago, the big thing was removing gendered language (such as “ninja” and “pirate” and “Jedi”).
- ozten 5y agoThere is a fair amount of sarcasm across these comments, due to the ridiculous nature of this topic.
- shawabawa3 5y agoAren't ninja, pirate and jedi all gender neutral?
- dymk 5y agoOne would imagine so, wouldn't they!
- _dain_ 5y agothis is how authoritarian regimes and cults work; they make you do and say ridiculous things as a shibboleth. this serves multiple purposes: - alienates you from outsiders - costly signal of in-group membership - breaks down your sense of self-worth - creates a false group consensus evergreen dalrymple quote: >the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. this isn't just limited to communism, it's a pathological feature of many groups. your embarrassment is a feature not a bug.