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Comment by GavinMcG

People are free to project "looking down on" or contempt onto the phrase "some random person" and the (subsequent) use of "rando" but I felt like it communicated precisely what was going on: this is a large organization, and the person is totally unknown to this sysadmin.

Even aside from whether "rando" is contemptuous, the issue isn't that they don't have the same schedule: it's that they are not respecting the company-wide schedule, nor are they respecting fairly obvious norms of professional software development.

I'm a teacher, and I very much believe in educating people rather than putting them down, but jumping on a single phrase/term when there's nothing else to suggest contempt here strikes me as odd. It's especially odd when the entire culture of sysadminship has a reputation of eye-rolling and begrudging wizardry to protect users from themselves.

parent GavinMcG 6 years ago

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