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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.
How could they possibly enforce this? Just use the words and pretend like you can't figure it out. Be naive.
I'd also shit on people subtly for wasting time going into my commits to change verbiage for no good reason.
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.
My work isn't at banning IT terms yet but they have encouraged us to add our pronouns to our Zoom and even gave us updated email Signature templates with a location for your pronouns.
I'm happy to see that it's been over a year since they did this and I see less than maybe 2 or 3% of people, even right up to our directors and AVPs, who do either of these things to this date.