On 06/18/2017 06:21 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:44:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
For further questions about what constitutes professional decorum, I
recommend reading "Emily Post" books on manners which are readily
available.
I would never read such a thing. I subscribe more to the Linus school
that such books are written by schoolmarms who simply squeeze the
negativity into other possibly more corrosive behavior:
"Because if you want me to 'act professional,' I can tell you that I'm
not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The
same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to
buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and
backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because
THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all
kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their
normal urges in unnatural ways."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/
That is not to say I'd go around cursing like Linus, and again we agree
these two went overboard, but it's not a big deal and I don't think it
merits anything more than a warning, both here and in general.
I'll stop responding after this, as I've now made my position clear, and
we don't need to turn this into a big etiquette discussion. :)
Hear, hear!
