Re:NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
by swalsh on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:28AM
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Most companies try to stay professional, and many people carry that behavior into github. However I have worked at a major tech company that trended closer to "millenial" in age. There memes were an everyday part of the corporate culture. Professional emails quite often would have a meme included. I can see someone coming from a corporate culture like that thinking it would be perfectly normal to carry this behavior into a public github issue like this.
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I was at Amazon and meme wars were common. I get that it may seem absurd but when done at the right time, humor can help people defuse a tense situation.
I am honestly surprised about the number of very upset people in this thread and the trashing of millennials. Yeah the ass of every workplace generational joke- most millennials have kids going to college now.
If you think millennials like memes Wait until you work with some zoomers. A lot of people screaming get off my lawn right now.
Memes are a lazy person's attempt at humour. I can't wait to see what post-millennials come up with to replace these placeholders for humour.
I do not get this. My first job was at a company which had very unprofessional communication internally (for good and bad) but we always made a clear distinction between internal and external communication. There is a time and place for everything.
Perhaps our business is a part of it, we were a B2C company, and our communications with customers attempted to tend towards "cool and fun".
*FYI, I did not work at GrubHub, which probably fails the most at pretending to be cool and fun.