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It also could have just been a joke, not one they were actually going to put into practice...
by PNewling 3y ago
It also could have just been a joke, not one they were actually going to put into practice...
- dylan604 3y agoSome people just come across as the type of person totally not any fun to hang out with.
- ok_dad 3y agoI’ve seen enough brainless execs and startup founders around here that you have to take stupid ideas like that seriously. I hope it was a joke, but it’s not very funny for an intern.
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- DiggyJohnson 3y agoYou definitely do not have to take stupid ideas like that seriously. Simply your life.
- dylan604 3y agoA little more credit to people for making a funny and a little less assumptions that people are that boneheaded would make the world a better place to be sure. I know for one, I rather enjoy being able to see the humor and having a laugh rather than getting all enraged and venting on the internet to show some sort of self perceived superiority.
- ok_dad 3y agoNah the ones spewing self perceived superiority are the folks who would call interns red shirts or make other off color jokes that end up hurting others and don’t even know it.
- mst 3y agoOur last batch named -themselves- "minions" and there's still little yellow dudes everywhere in the images they posted to internal comms platforms. I agree that some care would need to be taken to ensure that the redshirts felt like active participants in the joke rather than the butt of it, but at least in a reasonably informal environment it could, in fact, be very funny -to- the interns themselves. (though as tech lead, I always make sure that there are a decent number of jokes flying around directed squarely at me, which probably helps set a baseline of how seriously to take such things - and if in doubt about any particular joke, I just aim it at myself ;)