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I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
by WJW 4y ago
I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
- claytonjy 4y agoIt is a bit silly, but I kinda like it. I'm generally pretty anti-koolaid, but having a shared unique term for yourself and your coworkers seems like a reasonable way to build some positive tribalism, even if it's a stretch linguistically.
- bfeynman 4y agoI find there is something aesthetically and professionally pleasing about the plain old term "colleagues".
- sokoloff 4y agoColleagues is conspicuously not tribe-specific though. If you want to build an us-vs-them (which is beneficial in a lot of circumstances), you may want a label that helps separate your teams into an "us" that's distinct from the "thems".
- Apocryphon 4y agoSo when the tribe votes a ton of its members off the island, that us-vs-them facade really falls away.
- ye-olde-sysrq 4y agoI'm similarly anti-koolaid and I agree. It seems pretty harmless (it's just a shared noun, it's not saying we're a family etc etc) and it's kind of easier than just randomly selecting one of friends/colleagues/associates/comrades etc.
- axcaswd 4y agoI've been here for 3 years and I still don't know where "dutonian" came from. At this point I'm too afraid to ask.
- lanstein 4y agoOriana I think
- wlonkly 4y agoIt predates me (6 years), I don't know the origin either, except for coming from "Duty". At least we're not Pageys. There can be only one. The real curse of PagerDuty, though, is calling everything "-duty". Parental leave is BabyDuty, the training department is LearningDuty, the LGBTQ ERG is RainbowDuty, you get the idea. Hat-tip to our veterans ERG for not going with DutyDuty, although I hope it was in the running at least. (I mean I also kind of love it, but you know, it's a lot.)
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- captainkrtek 4y agoSounds like an element on the periodic table, next to deuterium
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI prefer "Duters" or Duterionos"
- rubatuga 4y agoDoodies
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoThe must not be into the whole brevity thing. But I guess I have to echo what others are saying, it's eye-roll-worthy some of the demonyms these companies come up with. So lame.
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- scifibestfi 4y agoOh shit, here we go again. The Dutonians join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Mozillians, Stripes, Tweeps, Peeps, Veeps, Elasticians, SoundHounders, Vimeans, Rackers, Krakenites, Latticians and Plaids.
- mattlondon 4y agoWay back in the day we called our selves IBMers. I figured that the "ers" was fairly common and made sense. Kinda doesn't really sound right for names like Meta I admit, but metamates is just cringe inducing
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoFacebookers scanned much better, at the very least.
- eropple 4y agoWhen at IBM I could not read it as anything other than “ibb-mer”.
- Apocryphon 4y agowtf is a "Peep" or a "Veep", you can't just co-op preexisting slang like that!
- toast0 4y agomissed Yahoos :P
- gman2093 4y agoI work for a company called "Fetch" and I call us "Fetchens"
- kirubakaran 4y agoA whole company of people dedicated to "Making Fetch Happen"?
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