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Probably true. My workplace banned “master”, “blacklist”, “whitelist”, and a number of other words I can’t recall right now.
Ah yes, “stand up” is a banned phrase. Of all things.
Are you still allowed to call it a "workplace," or is that considered prejudicial against your HR department?
Considering the recent push for companies to provide a social environment for their employees, I do wonder when HR-speak will start to de-emphasize the "work" aspect of being in an office and emphasize the "community" aspect.
As it is no one's an "employee" anymore: we're all "associates". Only a matter of time before "workplace" becomes something like "office community".
Let's cut to the chase and go with commune.
Sounds like it should rather be called the "safe space"
It is kind of strange how the 'otherkin' people just disappeared, given that everything else got weirder. Maybe they folded into the troons?
It's not their time yet. When trans and pedo acceptance become mainstream, they'll be the next cause du jour.
They rebranded to "Therians". Because "Other" was too dehumanizing I guess. kek
Hmm seems like it hasn't ever changed to me.
it's called standup because the original version had people literally standing up. the fact that you're standing is a constant reminder to everyone in the group to get the fuck on with your point and stop talking about bullshit.
not joking, a few companies ago, this corporate 27-certifications-in-agile-and-project-management guy comes in and sits down on one of the tables during our standup, tried to dragon the 6 minute meeting out over and over again. telling him to stop making everyone wait on him getting something he could read from a project background doc... completely didn't work. telling him to stand the fuck up when he's talking to the group, suddenly doesn't want to have a 30+ minute conversation
Agile is a cult masquerading as a project management process.
I’ve met very few people whose job is “project management” that I believe can manage to do the most basic of daily tasks without having to have 5 meetings about it. Followed up by a post mortem meeting on how they could more efficiently manage to waste even more of the actual talents time.
The only competent project managers I ever worked with were Systems Engineers, and that was because they were technically knowledgeable and capable of actually making a decision based on that technical knowledge.
Everyone I've met with a PMP cert has been worse than useless.
About the same experience. The only person I know that I like to work with in project management is a guy who used to actually do the work we do and got into project management because he was sick of morons running things.
As is any "project management process" with a branded name.
I've been saying for a long time that Agile is like communism. It sounds good in theory, as long as you don't think about it at all, and then someone goes and implements it and suddenly there's no toilet paper to be found and 100 million people are dead. And then, some faggot comes in and says "but that wasn't real Agile!".
It's not just "some faggot": they all say it. I've yet to hear someone outright say "yes we are implementing Agile, no it isn't working for us, we were more efficient before we started doing this" even if all those things are objectively true.
And I'm not even convinced it "sounds good in theory", especially for small teams.
Hehe true.
It sounds "good in theory" the same way communism does - as long as the theory is presented as a vague idea and you don't go into literally any details and you don't think about it at all. Communism: We'll all be equal! Agile: We'll be more flexible! Going into any further detail reveals both to be horseshit, Communism is just feudalism, and Agile brings insane overhead and is more rigid than "muh waterfall" which is usually just a complete strawman when described by Agiletards, exactly like Capitalism when described by pinkos.
Really there are a disturbing number of parallels. It's not a coincidence that all the worst agile tards I've ever met were lefties. Both are unnatural systems that go directly against the natural way normal people work, and for that reason both require a high degree of highly authoritarian control to maintain the system, because without that control, people will just go back to doing what makes sense.
It's a left-wing mode of organization that (attempts to) do away with hierarchies, pre-defined areas of responsibility and expertise, and informal interpersonal relationships. So of course lefties are enamored with it.
I'll take Mythical Man Month over that any day of the week. That got us to the moon with 60s tech. Think Agile would get us there? Would you ride in that spaceship? I wouldn't.
Did people stop standing up? Or is it because everyone started working from home?
yeah work from home makes it pointless to stand up. shit, i barely even get out of bed sometimes for it
People who make suggestions to ban terms like that should be fired on the spot. Clearly they do not have any important work to do so they invent problems for themselves to solve and justify their job while wasting everyone else’s time.
They could also just be trolling management. If I had the ear of a woke executive I'd make it a mission to see how many terms I can get the company to ban.
That's what I did. It wasn't a corporate demand but my team leader was saying we should all use the "more inclusive" vocabulary and... I just don't. Eventually he gave up.
They haven't liked that term for 20 years.
Of course as a harbinger of things to come, right in the middle of a comments section where the consensus is heavily skewed towards "this is stupid!" is a comment arguing in favor of using "singular they" as a more inclusive term than "impersonal he".
I used to get around that by calling my hard drives the much more politically correct "the butch" and "the bitch" and they never complained.
I'm pretty sure there were people trying to change that but SATA made it irrelevant.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”
How are they dealing with male and female cables? That's got to be triggering the non-binary set.
Oh, they just cut them up and resolder them to eliminate problematic gender implications. It even has the same result!
"Plug" and "socket" I guess
That sounds like crap.
Mainboard, main is patriarchal and if you remove the "i", you get man, but "main" is also very similar to how many vibrant youths pronounce "man."
Mainboard.
Lobo, 'The Main Man', in tatters!
Evil to the core, anti-human. Because:
Fraud ruins everything. Yet nothing is on fire...
I haven't been using Google products for some time now.
Is Daughterboard ok?