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Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

Yeah this is pretty embarrassing.

I get frustrated with tech all the time! I get it. Grr when Actions feels so irritatingly misbehaved…

But how you handle or fail to handle your frustration demonstrates the competence of your character and speaks volumes of what you’d be like to work with.

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Also important to note that this post was authored by the original author of zig, who presumably effectively controls the project.

You would be happier working in a kindergarten. I truly mean that. Think about it. Not trying to be rude.

A lot of us here have real world jobs where people don’t call us losers or monkeys when we fuck up. This isn’t some kind of hypothetical Big Rock Candy Mountain of professional conduct. It’s just what working life is like for a lot of people.

Not only do we not call coworkers losers or monkeys when they fuck up, I don’t think I’ve seen this when telling mean jokes about competitors in private conversations either. Individuals who are jerks about people you don’t like tend to also be jerks about you behind your back, and we don’t want that, so we don’t it.

If your workplace has a lot of name calling, consider the possibility that it may be unusually toxic, and the possibility that you’re making it toxic.

If you call people at work monkeys when you don't like their work, you're closer to Kindergarten than you think.

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