[brk]

The employee pet name shit is just really tired at this point. It's as bad as the job postings still looking for Rock Stars or Ninjas or whatever.

They're not Dropboxers, they're not associates, they are employees. Pretending otherwise is foolish on both sides.

[jeffbee]

Dropbox was where I first encountered the infantilization of the workplace, with animated emojis all over your biannual performance review. It was a shock, having come from a real company run by adults. Now everyone thinks this is normal, at least at companies that use Slack where 40% of the traffic is animated emojis.

[spinmax]

Exactly how I felt working at Google with their “open concepts”. Thankfully I am back at the University of Washington in a cubicle now, away from the yuppy babies. God knows where people get these ridiculous ideas.