• Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I work with a guy who posts questions to our dev team's group chat that are worded like this. It's like wading through Herman Melville, but without any substance.

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Oh no, I ADHD-post all the time. This guy's different. He doesn't overexplain; he just devolves into 500 words' worth of circular 18th century prose to ask how to run unit tests in an IDE.

          • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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            2 years ago

            Oh no, I can't imagine needing a background in lit crit to understand somebody's slack messages. I should not need to peer through layers of symbolism to understand code

            • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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              2 years ago

              "What was the theme of the junior .Net developer's long-winded Skype message? What symbols did he use to communicate that theme? How did his diction and tone enhance those symbols?"

              • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                at least a junior can be coached. it's the longer-tenured people posting like that because they're high on their own supply that's the worst

                but do them a favor and do that coaching so they don't become that senior