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: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:45AM (1 child)
But that is exactly why they funded this study. To prove the need for more CoCs, more Women in $whatever inititives and make the world perfectly safe for every delicate snowflake to feel fulfilled and brimming over with self confidence as they beaver away pointlessly on projects going nowhere because everyone competent will have went elsewhere. It is that last part they can't comprehend. And not enough of us can comprehend the problem so we can't yet perfect a snowflake defense good enough to prevent entryism; so we must accept periodic destruction of any institution we build. So I guess until we do come up with a defense it means making sure any institution is the absolute minimum required to allow productive work to happen so there isn't much to lose and to make sure the institution can't lock up any of the useful bits. In the Open Source world that is a perfectly viable model, one which should be adopted, not sure how that scales to capital intensive industries though.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 08 2017, @10:03AM
I plan on pushing for the "fuck off, you're fired" method of dealing with snowflakes if we ever manage the bad luck to have one on staff.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.