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Kana posted...

From what I understand from people in the engineering community (which most of you aren't part of, let's be real), the issue with what the dude said is that he basically created a hostile work environment, and anybody who would be in charge of assigning him would now have difficulty with doing just that. Keep in mind also that he was a fairly low-ranking engineer, so he was never really calling the shots in the first place. You can say whatever you want in private but he put it up as an internal company memo.

if an engineer's job in the first place is to take a look at a problem and find a solution, how is an examination of said problem "creating a hostile work environment" in the first place? if i find a bug in someone's code and edit that to make the code work, did i "create a hostile work environment" and devalue the engineer that wrote bad code's worth as a person? no i was just doing my job. why then do we take interpersonal issues and put so much more weight upon them that anyone that doesn't regurgitate HR's buzzwords by rote is to be shouted down, re-educated, or just plain run out of town on a rail? if anything, this kind of batshit lunacy seems more counter-productive than not. i don't ask a car engine how its feeling when it needs an oil change.
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