Introductions are fun, everyone is just nervously waiting for their turn and not listening to anyone else. No names or titles or whatever are remembered in big introductions. So either I just say “My name is <name> and I work with <task> at <location>” and I know that it’s already forgotten.
The crux of the problem, just tell the engineers where the other engineers are, don’t even need to exchange names, we’re happy just calling each other engineer until we need to. Kind of prefer it actually.
heyy, it’s ok if you do not know someones gender. it’s really not that important. just treat it as the unknown that it is, and either refer to the person gender neutrally, or ask if you need to know. just please do not guess, because that just leads to you accidentally hurting people :)
call me whatever you want I genuinely don’t care. you can call me he she they or it I genuinely don’t care. the funniest thing a patient called me is a reference to one of my many obvious physical deformities. if you care what I’m called that’s very genuinely a you problem. and honestly the more it bothers people to not know what to call me the funnier it gets.
I love it when kids call me fat or shout “Why is that fat man so hairy?” and their parents look mortified and tell them not to be rude while I laugh and agree with the kid, or answer them. For example, that last kid I told I was actually way less hairy than when I was a kid: back then I looked just like a little ball of fur and all you could see was my feet!
I feel the same way about my pronouns. It truly doesn’t matter to me. I’m glad people who feel strongly about it have the opportunity to make that choice, I just can’t relate to giving a damn about it. I had to call some customer service line a few times over the course of several days about a year ago, and every time I did, the agent asked the pronoun question. After like the fourth call I was getting annoyed. You’d think they’d add it to your profile after the first time, but no, even though they clearly had all my other information on a screen in front of them, they still had to ask. I don’t get that.
I must also confess to a slight paranoia about such things. I feel like my gender is information neither the government nor the company I buy pants from actually need. Why do they want to know? How is it going to change what they do for me?
Not my job to know what someone wants to be called…? The childish entitlement sheesh
Yeah. I don’t mind calling you whatever you like if you tell me. Otherwise I just don’t give a shit and I’ll call you whatever I feel like.
I hate introducing myself. how is you not knowing my name a me problem. figure it out idiot.
i think the whole meme is a joke :)
Definitely :D
I know you’re kidding, but I work in a corporate environment, wouldn’t it be great if we could skip the introduction phase in meetings.
Introductions are fun, everyone is just nervously waiting for their turn and not listening to anyone else. No names or titles or whatever are remembered in big introductions. So either I just say “My name is <name> and I work with <task> at <location>” and I know that it’s already forgotten.
Is it really like that for everybody?
No, usually in meetings those intros help separate managers from technical staff, so I know who will actually be useful to talk to.
The crux of the problem, just tell the engineers where the other engineers are, don’t even need to exchange names, we’re happy just calling each other engineer until we need to. Kind of prefer it actually.
Maybe everyone could wear a nametag with name in large letters and we could just get the job done.
tattoo names on the forehead. (A not very good idea)
There are definetly people, who I’ve talked a lot with, whose names I don’t know.
Damn right, Steve.
wow how did you know?
heyy, it’s ok if you do not know someones gender. it’s really not that important. just treat it as the unknown that it is, and either refer to the person gender neutrally, or ask if you need to know. just please do not guess, because that just leads to you accidentally hurting people :)
Unfortunately, asking can also lead to accidentally hurting people.
call me whatever you want I genuinely don’t care. you can call me he she they or it I genuinely don’t care. the funniest thing a patient called me is a reference to one of my many obvious physical deformities. if you care what I’m called that’s very genuinely a you problem. and honestly the more it bothers people to not know what to call me the funnier it gets.
This is how imma describe my gender next time my therapist checks in on it
I love it when kids call me fat or shout “Why is that fat man so hairy?” and their parents look mortified and tell them not to be rude while I laugh and agree with the kid, or answer them. For example, that last kid I told I was actually way less hairy than when I was a kid: back then I looked just like a little ball of fur and all you could see was my feet!
I feel the same way about my pronouns. It truly doesn’t matter to me. I’m glad people who feel strongly about it have the opportunity to make that choice, I just can’t relate to giving a damn about it. I had to call some customer service line a few times over the course of several days about a year ago, and every time I did, the agent asked the pronoun question. After like the fourth call I was getting annoyed. You’d think they’d add it to your profile after the first time, but no, even though they clearly had all my other information on a screen in front of them, they still had to ask. I don’t get that.
I must also confess to a slight paranoia about such things. I feel like my gender is information neither the government nor the company I buy pants from actually need. Why do they want to know? How is it going to change what they do for me?
the childish entitlement is probably because this is a joke, posted on a community where people post jokes