- If you are gay, you’re probably a designer - If you have a IBM thinkpad, you probably work in finance or accounting (Same If you use the printer) - If you’re a bad engineer, you probably work in QA - If you dress badly, you’re probably a backend engineer - If you dress well, you’re probably an iOS or frontend engineer - If you wear brown shoes + put your shirt inside your pant, you work in sales or account management - If you see a bunch of people dressed in suits visiting your company, you’re probably getting acquired - If you see your manager meeting HR multiples times for quick chats (standing most of the times), a round of layoffs is coming - If you were not born in the Bay Area, less than 30yo and live in South/East bay, you don’t have any friends - If you have only 1 pair of shoes that you wear everyday, you’re probably in dev ops - If you use @channel on Slack in the #general channel to announce useless stuff to your colleagues, you’re probably an asshole - If you have a bottle of water that you take with you to meetings, you’re probably a PM - If you don’t have a lot of meetings and wish you had more, you probably have less than 2 years of work experience - If you use DuckDuckGo, you’re probably an Android engineer - If you own more than one pair of white sneakers, you’re probably a product designer - If you’re a bad product designer, you’re probably a graphic designer working with the marketing team creating cover pictures for social media - If you don’t remember the last time when you changed your bed sheets, you are probably an engineer who contributed to many open source projects - If you are older than 30 and still live with roommates, you should really ask yourself some questions Anything else?
-if you read through the list above and feel this is incorrect, then probably you are at wrong side of blind.
Or in a systems team. My company all web devs get Macs, systems and embedded devs get Thinkpad X51’s.
This is all wrong. Not even close.
You forgot one - If you make a list of assumptions, you’re an ass
I agree
So stereotypes
You don't need "probably" for the @channel statement
- That stereotypes like these are dumb
We deserve to be stereotyped, but this is a bit much.
De facto discrimination and power abuse are still very prevalent
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