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> a lot of companies (ours included) has a term to refer to employees Why? Employee is a perfectly suitable and applicable term. You're not "associates" or any

by brk 4y ago

> a lot of companies (ours included) has a term to refer to employees Why? Employee is a perfectly suitable and applicable term. You're not "associates" or anything else that implies there is some kind relationship that is anything other than work for hire. Granted, if you have some kind of internal way to refer to yourselves or your teams, that's great. But like politics or religion, it should probably be a thing that is internal only and not referred to in the outside world/public comms. Terms like "Zoomies" are just childish. If some chain of events led you to be calling yourselves "The Ruby Death Squad", and you use that publicly, then I might change my perspective.

lamontcg 4y ago
Because Millennials eat up cheesy tribalistic terms to wrap their sense of identity around and corporations exploit that.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  FWIW, we all do that to an extent. Pick a label and make it good or bad, but something you can use as a yard stick. You are on the money, but oddly fall into the same trap by using label 'millenials' in a tribalistic manner ( the term has been largely made up to describe a giant cohort, and as most giant population terms, it shares the same flaws ). I do not think you are wrong in general. I am not sure, however, if it applies to that particular group only or even in general.
  - lamontcg 4y ago
    Qualitatively I think there's something different about the way that people under-40 tend to think about identity, particularly the people working in tech that we're discussing here. We used to have thirtysomethings and yuppies and other groups like that. But it hadn't infested everything the same way that Zoomies and Googlers and Pythonistas/Rubyists/Rustaceans has.
    - A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
      Ahh, I think I see what you mean. Based on that, I think I agree.
the_mitsuhiko 4y ago
> Why? Employee is a perfectly suitable and applicable term. Because a lot of communication in companies is on the same level. People eventually send emails to "hey demonym" rather than "hey coworkers". I think these sort of things develop pretty naturally and unforced.

by brk 4y ago

lamontcg 4y ago

Because Millennials eat up cheesy tribalistic terms to wrap their sense of identity around and corporations exploit that.

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
FWIW, we all do that to an extent. Pick a label and make it good or bad, but something you can use as a yard stick. You are on the money, but oddly fall into the same trap by using label 'millenials' in a tribalistic manner ( the term has been largely made up to describe a giant cohort, and as most giant population terms, it shares the same flaws ). I do not think you are wrong in general. I am not sure, however, if it applies to that particular group only or even in general.
- lamontcg 4y ago
  Qualitatively I think there's something different about the way that people under-40 tend to think about identity, particularly the people working in tech that we're discussing here. We used to have thirtysomethings and yuppies and other groups like that. But it hadn't infested everything the same way that Zoomies and Googlers and Pythonistas/Rubyists/Rustaceans has.
  - A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
    Ahh, I think I see what you mean. Based on that, I think I agree.

the_mitsuhiko 4y ago

> Why? Employee is a perfectly suitable and applicable term. Because a lot of communication in companies is on the same level. People eventually send emails to "hey demonym" rather than "hey coworkers". I think these sort of things develop pretty naturally and unforced.