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  • There’s a famous story at my job about this.

    The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.

    And the owner went. “So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?”

    And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole “Microsoft” rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.



  • Can confirm this.

    My first job had a manager who loved “making examples out of people”. One time, he threatened to fire a girl because she didn’t organize something the way he wanted, and went on a speech about how he is to be respected and when the girl told the owner, they hired a second manager to potentially remove him.

    He later went to jail for stabbing a guy at a bar, probably drunk. So he removed himself. He then became a cop. So that’s cool.












  • It’s really easy to feed into the rage bait here. So I’ll try to be brief.

    There’s an app called Hinge, and their whole premise was women are required to message first. The root issue they were trying to solve was that on dating apps, men were 90% of the ones who started a convo, and women would get bombarded with hundreds of messages. So this was to flip the script.

    Well, it turns out a vast majority of women (and honestly, men too.) really suck at openers.

    So you had a bunch of women going, “Hey” as their opening line to flirt with a potential match. And then we were back at the same problem.