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Oh shit, here we go again. The Dutonians join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Mozillians, Stripes, Tweeps, Peeps, Veeps, Elasticians,
by scifibestfi 4y ago
Oh 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"?
- trynewideas 4y agoI think my favorite is still Asana, which calls its employees Asanas: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anneraimondi_earlier-today-we-shared-the-incredibly-difficult-activity-6998297745270718465-a_MV https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anneraimondi_earlier-today-we... Which contains gems like "exceptionally talented, mission driven, innovative and kind Asanas" and "once an Asana, always an Asana" — considering some of the Sanskrit usages are equivalent to "chair" or "seated posture". "You were good chairs, but you have to go. As they alway say, once a place where you put your ass, always a place where you put your ass."