I’m all for non-gendered language. Yet I find this post by @bcantrill much worse than what the “offender” did: joyent.com/blog/the-power-of…
Dec 1, 2013 · 9:29 AM UTC
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@stilkov remember most are 'at will' employees in US - can be fired for any reason
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@stevendick Good point. Where I live, firing someone is kind of a big deal.
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@stilkov @fredverheul @bcantrill Yuck. That makes @joyent look pretty stupid. Blown out of proportion.
@stilkov including collecting kid from kindergarten instead of dealing with an outage (a story from Morgan Stanley)
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@stilkov @6 @bcantrill Wait. Timeout. They made a post saying they would fire a guy who doesn't even work for them. What? Why? How? #shocked
@stilkov Yeah, totally. Seems like an angry reaction to me, not a very considered response.
@stilkov @6 @bcantrill Really, who cares? Have programmers so little to do that we argue over pronouns? It's stupid but it's also irrelevant