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> approximately 260 talented Plaids "Plaids" This joins the list of Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Amazonians, Tweeps, Krakenites, what else?
by scifibestfi 4y ago
> approximately 260 talented Plaids
"Plaids"
This joins the list of Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Amazonians, Tweeps, Krakenites, what else?
- namdnay 4y ago“Metamates” (I kid you not)
- solardev 4y agoThat sounds like workplace harassment.
- disambiguation 4y agobefore the name change it was FBuddies ;)
- solardev 4y agohahaha
- simantel 4y ago"Peeps" at MailChimp.
- MaxLeiter 4y agoI worked at a place called Blend and they used “Blendkind.” My first question in onboarding was if anyone had thought of “Blender”
- bena 4y agoProbably did it to avoid association with the 3D software.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoNow that just sounds like a cult
- FeistySkink 4y agoIs there some HR from hell manual somewhere that encourages this? Does anybody sincerely enjoy being called some cringey pun?
- jordigh 4y agoI'm pretty sure it's a subtle union-busting doublethink. When the Starbucks employees started unionising, they said things like "if you're going to call us partners [the Starbucks name for 'employee'], then start treating us like partners."
- aliqot 4y agoIt's to make you think of it more like a family than what it is, a contractual means to an end for both parties.
- hbn 4y agoI imagine when Google was actually a cool, fun underdog that was upending industry, a lot more employees took pride in being part of the team doing that. Now you're basically working for a branch of world government. Most likely doing meaningless gruntwork to reinvent the wheel for the umpteenth time, or actively doing evil.
- CalRobert 4y agoWas partial to Oktanaut if only because my kids love Octonauts.
- liquid_stranger 4y agoCoinbae's at Coinbase.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- mystcb 4y agoRackers at Rackspace
- hotpotamus 4y agoAs a former Racker, I was always fine with that - it more or less makes sense, although I never racked a server in my time there. What was funny was that we had an organic tendency to apply the same naming scheme to employees of other companies. After Rackspace acquired Datapipe, they had to tell us to stop calling them Datapipers.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- jordigh 4y agoAny word except "employee", because that makes people think too much about contracts and worker-boss relationships. We're all cool people with a cool name here! Nobody is merely an "employee"! It's not just in the software industry, by the way. Most companies in the US call their employees by anything other than "employee". I assume it's a subtle union-busting doublethink tactic. I may have some wrong but * Starbucks employees are "partners". * Target employees are "team members" * Disney park employees are "cast members" * Burger King employees are "team members"
- mi_lk 4y agoUberers ?
- carb 4y agoUberetto/a was used internally by travis kalanick for a long time
- rexreed 4y ago"You're one of us until you aren't."
- Ancalagon 4y agoI love how internally everyone refers to everyone as “resources” - the most dehumanizing.