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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by aclarke on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:07AM
I can put up with a whole lot of some types of crap at work, and other types I just won't put up with. People changing their minds, having a bad day every now and then, not being super competent, making mistakes, not having great interpersonal skills, those are all normal parts of any relationship inside or outside of work.
Lying, illegal behaviour, threats, a pattern of sociopathic behaviour? I'm out of there. I once left a job after lunch on the second day after seeing how the owner of the company treated his employees and finding out what he really wanted me there for. It's just not worth it.
Back to my subject line about power. If you're the boss, you have a responsibility to treat people "under" you properly. If you're a white man, there are things that may be appropriate at home, with your white man friend, that aren't appropriate at the office. Ahem, no I didn't mean THAT, but that too. If we can understand this, it helps us act respectfully to those around us and understand when to take issues at work seriously.
If there are people behaving like spoilt children at work, and they don't have power over you in some way, it's a lot easier to wave them off and move on with your life. If you find yourself in their firing line, either through the reporting structure or through social expectations, it's time to do something about it.