[DanielBMarkham]

I think I'm reaching the end of my tolerance for the word "brogrammer"

I don't tolerate sexism, racism, or bigotry. Period. Whether it has a catchy name or not.

I have noticed that many of the attributes associated to "brogrammer" are attributes I associate with immature males.

Here's the thing: I do not believe that shaming immature males is going to make them more mature. In fact, I think it's going to drive the entire subculture underground and make it much, much worse. The stories we read about "brogrammers" in 10-years time will truly be horrific, instead of just frat-house idiocy.

I have no problem at all with making workplaces more women-friendly, or in having a zero-tolerance policy. I also expect employees to have natural personality flaws, like most humans. As long as I don't see it in the workplace I think accepting people for who they are is a much better life strategy than giving them labels and sticking them in little boxes for us to assault en masse. And don't even get me started in the "business of outrage" where a new syndrome is kicked up and dozens of writers generate millions of pageviews all clamoring over each other to tell us how bad it is.

To put this in a direct business context, I desperately want diversity in tech teams. That's diversity in thinking, not in external attributes. That means the more eccentric the wordviews of those present, as long as they can get along? It's better for everybody. I'd take violent anarchists, Buddhists, and Nazis in a team if I could make it work. Just keep the bad behavior offsite. I do not want to live in your homogenized world.

[tripzilch]

> I'd take violent anarchists, Buddhists, and Nazis in a team if I could make it work. Just keep the bad behavior offsite.

If you'd do that, good luck keeping your bad behaviour of knowingly hiring Nazis off-site.

Or "violent <anything>". What level of violence are we talking about btw, that this employee that you hired for your team actually bombs things outside the workplace, or that s/he merely stabs or beats up people outside the workplace?

Or do you mean as long as they're able to keep the bad behaviour outside the workplace well enough so you can plausibly claim you couldn't have known about it when you hired them.

> I do not want to live in your homogenized world.

LOL tell that to the Nazis you'd have no problems hiring despite their "natural personality flaws"!

[MartinCron]

I'd take violent anarchists, Buddhists, and Nazis in a team if I could make it work.

Maybe it wouldn't work on a technology team, but it's an excellent set up for a "...walk into a bar" joke.

[qdog]

I'm not sure we have a Buddhist (maybe some Indian guys, not sure, we don't discuss religion much, but they don't eat meat), but violent anarchists and almost-evil eastern bloc caricatures seem to be represented fairly well where I work.

The do get shit done, though.

[pavel_lishin]

The guy sitting next to me is an aspiring Buddhist, and I'm a Russian immigrant who is tinkering with a USB missile system in his spare time so I can shoot my coworkers when they commit bugs into the repo.

I'll have to investigate the other coworker for any swastika tattoos. He does speak some German...

[tomjen3]

Do you have any evidence that these diversity teams actually make more money?

I mean it is a nice political correct speech speech, but feelings have no place in business (except, possibly, to woe over employees or customers). Businesses exists to make money.

[weavejester]

Saying businesses exist to make money is like saying humans exist to eat.

[KuraFire]

Yes: basically any study on the effects of more diverse work teams or leadership has come up with the same result: diversity is good for business, better for the bottom line, results in better products, and so forth.

Have a gander: http://j.mp/J3RwfG