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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-nice-or-I'm-gonna-cry dept.

El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:

Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.

This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.

Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.

Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:02PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:02PM (#522253) Homepage Journal

    At the end of every day the owner would ask me to come into a closed room, where he would yell at me for a solid hour. I felt I really needed the work so I defended myself as best I could.

    But when he yelled at me in front of a coworker, I realized that this anger was due to him being alcoholic. On top of the break room cabinet were neatly arranged about ten 2-litre hard liquor bottles. There were beer bottles piled up in the recycling bin and spilling out to the floor. The only room in the place that didn't look like a bomb went off in it was the room with a pool table, with mirrors on the wall advertising beer - one normally sees those in bars.

    He hadn't come in for the day yet when I reached the decision to leave. I emailed him, his wife - our accountant - and two other coworkers, with the advice to stop drinking.

    I won't work for alcoholics any more. It took me a while to clue in to what all those empty bottles in the break room meant.

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