"I got fired over a variable name...." - https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/dpcfns/i...
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i...
I wrote functions that are available for the users to use (they can customize their own dashboard). Our function conventions are camelCase. The function I wrote was something along the lines of `cumOnMetric` or something like that.
Needless to say some square somewhere thought this was a joke and didn't like it. So there I was, just blinking away and wasn't even aware this was something sensitive. It was funny sure, but I didn't have the idea that it was "unprofessional". I still feel the idea of professionalism is quite a club thing.
But yeah we got our first snake_case function name because of that.