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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:53AM
Your attitude sounds a lot like Assertiveness 101. Of course, they don't seem to have assertiveness training anymore - nowadays, it's all Sensitivity 101.
Each of us has our own limits to the abuse we'll accept, and those limits change from one environment, to another. Submissive people have a high tolerance for abuse, and they'll almost never complain. Domineering people tend to rise to the top, on the job and elsewhere. People in between? They learn to assert themselves, at some point. Tired of being browbeaten by the boss? Just tell him.
I did that just this morning, at work. He's running at the mouth about cleaning up workspaces. I asked him, point blank, "Do YOU clean up your workspace? Does first shift clean up every day?" Bastard actually said that he did, and my response was, "No you don't! You get the Mexican to clean up all your messes. First shift has the Mexican cleaning all day, every day." *
Everyone got silent, including the boss, because they knew I was speaking the truth.
Assert yourself, and you'll put up with a lot less shit.
*The funny thing about that is, I'm accused here of being a racist, but at work where racism is supposedly not tolerated, I am the only person to see the racism. No, the Mexican is not permitted to do much of anything, aside from picking up, cleaning up, and running errands for all the White Guys. Meanwhile, the White Guys have plenty of time for bullshitting, and horseplay. Mention race, and they're all Holier Than Thou - none of them would ever think of making a racist remark!!