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It 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 reasonab
by claytonjy 4y ago
It 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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