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by scifibestfi 1241 days ago
Oh shit, here we go again.

The Dutonians join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Mozillians, Stripes, Tweeps, Peeps, Veeps, Elasticians, SoundHounders, Vimeans, Rackers, Krakenites, Latticians and Plaids.

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Way back in the day we called our selves IBMers. I figured that the "ers" was fairly common and made sense.

Kinda doesn't really sound right for names like Meta I admit, but metamates is just cringe inducing

When at IBM I could not read it as anything other than “ibb-mer”.
Facebookers scanned much better, at the very least.
I think my favorite is still Asana, which calls its employees Asanas: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anneraimondi_earlier-today-we...

Which contains gems like "exceptionally talented, mission driven, innovative and kind Asanas" and "once an Asana, always an Asana" — considering some of the Sanskrit usages are equivalent to "chair" or "seated posture".

"You were good chairs, but you have to go. As they alway say, once a place where you put your ass, always a place where you put your ass."

wtf is a "Peep" or a "Veep", you can't just co-op preexisting slang like that!
I work for a company called "Fetch" and I call us "Fetchens"
A whole company of people dedicated to "Making Fetch Happen"?
missed Yahoos :P