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Old 03-31-2022, 08:50 PM
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apparently tis no longer okay to teach kids about a subjectively shitty president, but it's okay to teach them it's okay to have sex with grownups.

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Our media lapdogs at work. Here it's "Alleged" atrocities. Last summer it was "mainly peaceful protests." Utter garbage.
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I'm curious to hear your point of view on this.

To a hiring manager at such a firm, would the presence of pronouns at the top of a resume be considered a positive attribute, a warning sign, or merely have no impact whatsoever?

Would the absence of pronouns on a resume be noticed? What effect would that have?
I'm in the middle of this right now. I refuse to play along with this charade. I haven't heard any comments yet to the effect of "well this applicant didn't identify their pronouns so we aren't going to consider them" or vice versa. However, they are truly hypnotized that you can build better software if the engineering team "is diverse" - but no mention of the team that made or served their dinner, built their home or the roads in their neighborhood. It's truly preposterous that the same people that are foaming at the mouth about "pay equity" and putting a vagina onto every Executive team have no issues with asking me to do a targeted search for a black or hispanic software engineer.

The uncomfortable truth, my son is almost 16 and I have to prepare him for how to navigate these psychopaths.
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However, they are truly hypnotized that you can build better software if the engineering team "is diverse"
Serious question: how exactly does diversity make better software?
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Originally Posted by Braineack
Serious question: how exactly does diversity make better software?
There must be a limited set of coding-specific characters or strings that only certain demographics are capable of entering. For instance, somewhere there's a relatively frequently necessary line of code that only a pacific islander female aged 35-49 is capable of typing, and without that specific line of code, a much longer and more arduous line of code must be used to perform the same task; therefore, diversity obviously makes software leaner and more capable. It makes sense if you don't think about it.
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Originally Posted by fooger03
There must be a limited set of coding-specific characters or strings that only certain demographics are capable of entering. For instance, somewhere there's a relatively frequently necessary line of code that only a pacific islander female aged 35-49 is capable of typing, and without that specific line of code, a much longer and more arduous line of code must be used to perform the same task; therefore, diversity obviously makes software leaner and more capable. It makes sense if you don't think about it.
Did you know that Indian culture makes it hard for them to say no or express concerns?

So in IT when a boss asks an Indian employee "Can you have that done by Friday?" and they repeat "You want this by Friday?" and what they really mean is: There's no ******* way I can write this code by Friday.

It always leads to stellar code and clear understanding.

No joke, if your company is good, you will receive this sort of cultural managerial training for superior code writing.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
Recently I get nothing you post like this. What are you posting?
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Originally Posted by olderguy
Recently I get nothing you post like this. What are you posting?
You can see it or you don't understand? If you can't see it here you go.

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Originally Posted by Braineack
Did you know that Indian culture makes it hard for them to say no or express concerns?

So in IT when a boss asks an Indian employee "Can you have that done by Friday?" and they repeat "You want this by Friday?" and what they really mean is: There's no ******* way I can write this code by Friday.

It always leads to stellar code and clear understanding.

No joke, if your company is good, you will receive this sort of cultural managerial training for superior code writing.
My Canadian friend (and master coder) says leave it to the Indians to make good spaghetti...

...code. Spaghetti code.
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