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Thats a weird takeaway, why can't you let people enjoy things that don't affect you?
How am I stopping anyone's enjoyment? Why can't you let me voice my opinion?
Laptops with Stickers
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Please don't post unsubstantive comments and mean-spirited slurs on HN.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine. That can be a healthy attitude outside of work. People love personality. But at work, that's not a healthy attitude. You're there to work together, not to be uncompromising in expressing yourself. Your stickers are probably fine, but I can also imagine plenty of musical artists that would certainly be offensive (and rightly so) to some p…
Sure there is some content that is obviously not appropriate, but I'm not seeing it in the OP link. Meanwhile the comments here are filled with a thinly veiled anger over seeing rainbow flag stickers. These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace. Though I've never met someone like this in the office. Or at least they keep their thoughts to themselves offline.
I've met people like them in the office. My first job, people were deadnaming Chelsea Manning in the internal chat. One time I got stuck in a lift with two other people and they assumed I was a guy, and started talking about which of the HR reps they wanted to fuck. It was tedious and stressful, and the company did have an anonymous reporting system, sure; but fuck, there were only three people in the lift, anonymity goes to shit when there's only three total people present and two of them are in on it.
My work quality tanked shortly after because, a) I have ADHD so I was putting 200% into my job to tread water, b) the rampant misogyny and transphobia within the workplace was just suffocating, and c) I dared to use the anonymous reporting system to report people for being shitheads, and I stupidly admitted that to HR. I am 70% sure it was the last point there that got me fired lmao
This kind of shit is why I am no longer aiming to work in tech.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine. That can be a healthy attitude outside of work. People love personality. But at work, that's not a healthy attitude. You're there to work together, not to be uncompromising in expressing yourself. Your stickers are probably fine, but I can also imagine plenty of musical artists that would certainly be offensive (and rightly so) to some p…
Sure there is some content that is obviously not appropriate, but I'm not seeing it in the OP link. Meanwhile the comments here are filled with a thinly veiled anger over seeing rainbow flag stickers. These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace. Though I've never met someone like this in the office. Or at least they keep their thoughts to themselves offline.
> These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace.
Same. If my stickers serve as a self-filter away from companies I'd rather not work at, or people I'd rather not work with, then that's a positive thing for me.
If someone's offended by, for example, a rainbow sticker on my laptop, well I'd rather not work with them, or for that company. I'll look elsewhere.
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#85This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?
Its signalling. Instead of stickers on their laptop, conservatives have crosses (the thing jesus got nailed on) on their neck and cars.
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#86I slapped a nice sticker of a boat anchor on my work laptop. Seemed fitting. Slow (thanks to 4 separate malware/virus scanners), weighs a ton, lasts for an hour on battery.
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You might be shocked if I tell you how little effort it takes to put on a sticker that someone gave you. My record: I once applied a sticker in less than 3 seconds, and that included peeling off the backing!
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#88Like covering a Lamborghini with cheap bumper stickers.
True. At my workplace, every engineer gets a Lamborghini and many people do, in fact, cover them with stickers.
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Please see here for HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239791
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats a weird takeaway, why can't you let people enjoy things that don't affect you?
How am I stopping anyone's enjoyment? Why can't you let me voice my opinion?
It's got the same vibe as going into a circle of people having fun and telling them they're trying too hard. What's the effect you're going for?
You're not being stopped from having an opinion - your comment is visible - but sharing one that'll only serve to bring down people's moods makes everything a little bit worse I think.