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I feel this was an ‘of it’s time’ thing, but I am so glad we have moved on from this. I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.
by GEBBL 1y ago
I feel this was an ‘of it’s time’ thing, but I am so glad we have moved on from this. I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.
- MyPasswordSucks 1y agoIt's an ASCII art of a nude woman. So what? It just seems like such a busybody thing to get one's feathers ruffled over.
- sweezyjeezy 1y agoIt's teenager-ish, and the kind of thing that would make people uncomfortable if they saw it at our own workplaces. We can argue about whether companies 'should' punish people for stuff like this, but I can say for sure that I don't feel like I'm missing out on much here.
- bayindirh 1y agoI still design and add banners to my servers' MOTD to add a little fun to my day. No NSFW stuff, however.
- msgodel 1y agoMine is a corporate style # rectangle but instead of legal crap it just says "msgodel's laptop/vps/robot/whatever\n Be Nice!"
- bayindirh 1y agoMine are old BBS style banners, generally glorifying the hostname, and a small tagline for the server itself, related to its function. A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!".
- selcuka 1y ago> A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!". DNS is usually UDP, so it's tricky. Maybe a database server? We don't even have to modify the original quote.
- gortok 1y agoHow about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us better as a species instead of worse.
- doublerabbit 1y ago> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE I already do, it's called VSCode and it definitely operates like a phallus.
- msgodel 1y ago[flagged]
- jcranmer 1y agoEven if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.
- msgodel 1y ago[flagged]
- jcranmer 1y agoFunny that I and my coworkers have figured out how to make the office not an "unpleasant sterile place" without doing so in a way that alienates so many classes of people.
- toxican 1y agoOh yeah it's so unpleasant not having to see creepy and gross shit in the work place because some horny dork never grew up. Gosh won't someone please think of the incels?!
- msgodel 1y agoThe consequence is that the workplace is a sterile no mans land and you're better off remote. Like I said: if being there were actually meaningful it might make sense to be there.
- doublerabbit 1y agoAnd it was. The developer above posted an ascii dragon and the other posted a topless woman. Tasteful too. Both ASCII artwork of different things. No idea why folk are so riled up about this.
- redeeman 1y agoseriously, what makes that so bad?
- GJim 1y ago> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable. I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension. Anyone objecting to such a thing here would, quite rightly, be considered a nutter.
- colejohnson66 1y agoPeople aren't objecting to the ASCII art itself, but the context in which it is used — a workplace.
- GJim 1y agoThe context being ASCII nudity (!) should not be seen in a workplace? Is that honestly the problem you have? I'm not being unkind when I say that if such a 'concern' was raised in Blighty, people would question your sanity.