But business attire is so
drolldull. Even in the Guy Kawasaki was differentiating between the ties (business suits) and t-shirts (techs so skilled that their casual attire was tolerated.Droll means humorous, did you mean to write dull or do you have a different point I am not understanding.
No I meant dull, or drab. Fixed.
Drab + Dull = Droll
The math checks out
Report that to HR a week ago
I would call this based, but it’s risky. Flirty behavior complaint to HR for having been called a cutie in 3…2…
I had Gonzo in a tux for about 7 years. No one ever even mentioned it to me. How much are people looking at this lol
Given how shitty a lot of big corporations are, I think this was handled pretty well actually
This reminds me of how my manager cringed when I made an official internal document that needed to be shared with clients using the shizuku version of crystal.
Am I into this stuff at all, no
Is that freaking hilarious? Yes
Ahahahaha
I respect the dev, hiyohiyo, so much for this. He gave us something so useful, and he likes these characters, and he’s not ashamed to make the skinned versions and put them up for download.
I just recently found CrystalMark and was so confused about the downloads. If there was only anime girl skins I would have looked elsewhere, despite it being highly recommended lol. Can’t send that to our CEO and demand we change hypervisor throughout our company…
I remember thinking it was really pretty and added some life to the dull corpo experience.
It ended up working in our favour, our clients were weebs like me.
I dunno, I’d be weirded out if someone used a non anime skinned version of crystal. If this makes you cringe I feel like maybe not cut out for tech sector.
You need to remember that the technical people may not have an issue with it, but the bean counters tend to be more stuffy and upright about shit. And a lot of clients are especially up tight in my experience. Something about paying you money and expecting standard business responses.
I wouldn’t give a shit if I saw that, but I absolutely would not send that up the chain if a junior sent me that screenshot (or I’d crop it down to the most useful info. Last thing I want to do is listen to some asshole c-level complain at me for 20 minutes about professionalism.
You’re probably more senior than this dev.
I’d be weirded out they are running Windows. I no longer trust the technical opinion of anyone that runs that joke of an OS.
We’ve got an edgelord here folks.
Lmao, are you upset by my statements? I must have pressed a button, huh? Sorry to hear you feel insecure about running Windows. Just accept being tech illiterate, it’s okay.
Maybe when you get a job you’ll understand that you can’t always choose your tech stack. Keep thinking you’re a badass because you run Linux on your PC to play steam games and I’ll keep writing software, that has real world value, on my work computer running Windows.
This is the normie view, they just can’t be bothered doing anything about it
Ah yes, because people always have a choice. There’s no way anyone competent would work at a larger company issuing devices with the company standard system running proprietary software that only functions on that system.
I mean, if your company forces it then you don’t have an option. My company uses Windows so I have to use it for work and that’s exactly how I know it’s a joke of an OS. All my personal devices run linux.
Do teams photos even show to external orgs?
Share the pic 🥺
It’s amusing how things you never expect to be seen by others suddenly go intercontinental because your company likes them. I have a friend who retired from her corporate job about 15 years ago. She had an excel document (that I guess became some sort of super document, I dunno, I’m not into that sort of stuff), and it worked so well for her work that it became the company standard for a gigantic multinational corporation (they’re one of the ones you always hear involved in US wars), and whatever she did couldn’t be changed once she left.
That means she occasionally still gets contacted about her mildly suggestive name for the file. It references testicles and corporate greed in one go round.
👀 what is the file name??
nutglutton.xlsx
It’s really obvious if I say it, and I don’t want to connect her or myself to any online account.
Hmm, let me see if I can let you know (if you already know) that you know it. It was her nickname, then similar to a name of a casino.
Taj Miball
Ball’a’Geo-rgia
Lux-whore (I know not ball themed but I’m looking through a list of LV casinos for clues)
The Scrotosphere
The MGM Grundle
Harriet Palms casino
I know I’m being ridiculous, I don’t actually need to know, just thought it would be fun to get a thread of nut related name guesses.
Maybe we should guess and the User could let us know when we are on the right track if they are still reading this thread.
Scrotum chugger is my guess.
Put me down for Bollock Gobbler
Weird they censored the picture, the last time I saw this cycle through the picture wasn’t censored
Am I the only one that cringed at the last sentence? Seems super inappropriate and unprofessional to call a subordinate a “cutie.”
Depends on the business culture. Considering they are only getting a notice after they have to interact with customers I’m going to assume it’s a pretty chill culture
Not cat ears in your company profile chill though.
I worked at a huge (but old) company once where the architect at the top of my local pyramid had a fursona avatar as his company profile. Dude was a legit genius, and I’m glad the higher ups had the foresight to just let him be.
In my company I have a serious picture in Teams, however in our internal applications (Jira, etc) I have a picture of rasputin. Over Christmas I used a AI tool to put a santa hat on him and used that as my profile picture
Kinda based ngl
Based will come when corporate finally pulls their heads out of their arses and accepts that to hire good IT people need to to go to the cat girls.
Once Upon a Time, This Tech Company Actively Recruited Furries (Vice.com)
Months earlier, recruiter Cindy Lee Smith noticed a trend in the resumes coming across her desk at Taos. Why were many job candidates listing “anthropomorphism” under their hobbies?
As Christine Hyung-Oak Lee tells it—recalling her time as a junior recruiter under Smith—hitting upon the tech-talent goldmine of furrydom was something like an epiphany. “I remember her running out of her office into my cubicle, and she said, ‘Christine, we gotta get on these furries.’”
And this was way back in 1996.
They know, they just don’t want other companies to know. They might steal the cat girls
So you’re saying we all should be wearing cat ears in our Linkedin pictures to have better chances to be hired?
I know better than to tell any kind of cat what to do.
“OK, here’s my elevator pitch. You know Operation Paperclip, after World War 2 where us and the Russians grabbed all the German rocket scientists we could? Well this is Operation Catgirl, and it’s the future, and the US and EU have collapsed, and Russia and China are going through this post-apocalyptic wasteland trying to grab all the furries they can. It’s like Mad Max meets Oppenheimer meets fandom. Whatdayasay?”
Great but who will star?
Hmmm… I’m thinking Jack Black as a Russian officer and Simu Liu as Chinese officer… I dunno about the furries and catgirls…
:3
I’d watch that!
If it were my company/cooperative, I would encourage creative self expression like this, rather than try to crack down on it, but this is likely because I’d prefer working on video games instead of boring business stuff (would likely still pick up the latter to fund the former).
I really appreciate how they’re trying to be nice about it
No worries, you’re still a cutie, even in business attire
They’re not trying to be nice, they are being nice about it >:3
They’re being super nice about it!
Like they’re absolutely willing to accept whoever you are, they’re just worried that other businesses might not be as nice and don’t want you to have to deal with that
Pretty sure the whole thing is satire and that line is supposed to make it obvious, but I’m just doing me
Weird, that line made me cringe and seems super unprofessional
I always had my day brightened at an old job by emails from this guy in Master Data. His email signature was just MC Hammer lyrics disguised as Bible verses, something like Hammerlonious, 4:16-24. Nobody ever asked him to change it or gave him grief about it, since rather than implement something normal like SAP, the company had decided to roll their own in-house ERP system, and he was the only one who actually knew how a good chunk of it worked.
