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There's a huge difference between a world in which nobody is allowed to say anything that could hurt anybody's feelings and a professional workplace where peopl
by MartinCron 15y ago
There's a huge difference between a world in which nobody is allowed to say anything that could hurt anybody's feelings and a professional workplace where people are not systematically alienated for not being part of the dominant group.
Be as edgy and offensive as you want, on your own time, thanks.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoThere isn't a practical difference between those when there's no consensus about what's alienating. Offices must be bland, because society has decided that making brittle people unemployable would be a worse thing to do. I actually sort of agree with the logic, while disliking the forced choice.
- MartinCron 15y agoThere isn't a practical difference between those when there's no consensus about what's alienating It seems that the consensus that reasonable people are closing in on is that once someone takes the effort to tell you something is alienating, it probably is, and that saying "lighten up" or "grow a thick skin" is probably the wrong response. Also, "brittle people", really? Most people would be seen as brittle if the right pressure were applied to them.
- Tichy 15y agoI think you are talking about a different thing.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoYeah, I should have put that better, I think I got it from Dilbert. I was alluding to the outliers, the people who are most sensitive to small and surprising provocations, because that's where every employer must set the bar regarding what's acceptable.