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>grew in Silicon Valley and work here now as a dev >The people I work with seem totally normal. These two statements don't seem related to you? I grew up in
by benihana 11y ago
>grew in Silicon Valley and work here now as a dev
>The people I work with seem totally normal.
These two statements don't seem related to you?
I grew up in Orlando, Florida and for the first 25 years of my life, I thought people just went to Disney World when they felt like it. I thought everyone was tan and wore sunglasses and shorts all the time. I thought everyone knew how to surf, or had been to the ocean recently. I thought most people just had guns and didn't worry about them.
All of these things were normal to me, because I hadn't experienced other people's normal. So when you say "I grew up here, all of the people I know are normal," you're basically saying "I live in a filter bubble and might be accidentally proving your point."
- d23 11y agoYou sound bitter, so maybe you've been burned. I'm not from here, and the people I work with don't seem toxic at all. Maybe I got lucky and found a good working environment that isn't the norm. I get your point, but the poster didn't exactly expose himself as a toxic person, so I'm not sure you can make the leap in assumption about his point of view that you seem to be trying to make.
- indrax 11y agoHe doesn't sound bitter to me. He's pointing out a possible oversight in perspective.
- TulliusCicero 11y agoI've also lived in Alabama, Utah, and Washington (and also NYC for a short time). I'm not saying my co-workers are exactly the same as other demographics, but they're certainly not "obnoxious and narcissistic."