Some of the best software jobs are with "progressive" start ups. Been a while since I have worked for companies like these. How bad is the political environment in places like these? I am fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is. Is it possible to escape and be able to do my own thing? Can I still hold strong bonds with coworkers, if I just keep my mouth shut about politics?
I'm asking specifically about politics in tech. Jow Forums is probably just going to "name the jew" and go off topic.
William Hughes
>fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is we're a tech board, I wouldn't assume that. protection of privacy is a non-partisan issue
Most start ups don't discuss politics in any real manner. It's largely seen as unprofessional. That doesn't mean people won't make accomodations like giving Muslims a prayer room or LGBT people a gender-neutral bathroom - what keeps the employees happy generally keeps management happy and productivity strong. Just don't expect someone to shove it in your face over lunch. If you pop a vein at seeing a gender-neutral bathroom sign however, maybe you aren't cut out to really work in a professional capacity.
Brayden Collins
>gender-neutral bathroom It should just be LGB. Fuck this tranny shit t. fag
Dylan Harris
>If you pop a vein at seeing a gender-neutral bathroom sign however, maybe you aren't cut out to really work in a professional capacity.
They have general neutral bathrooms at Qualcomm. How dies it affect you? Why would it even upset you?
Eli Hughes
*gender *does
Elijah Kelly
Liberal Democrat confirmed...should the animal lovers get a petting room at work too? Hell why even work indoors...
Isaiah James
You don't have an animal room? Sounds like you're not in a good place in terms of your career.
Adrian Thompson
Most tech companies that actually build interesting things don't put a leash on you anyways. You have general deadlines on the work you do, and how you get there is up to you.
William Anderson
I don't get the issue americans have with gender neutral bathrooms. No company I've worked for or school I have gone to has had gendered bathrooms.
Lucas Moore
>office has single room bathrooms >essentially equates to gender neutrality since it's only one toilet >most women that work here work in accounting >therefore never have a problem with the bathrooms The only liberal non-sense I hear here is about illegal immigrants should not be deported and Texas should be a blue state.
Christopher Butler
Actually most women prefer female only bathrooms for sanitary reasons, Google it I'm too lazy to do anything more than comment
Jason Ortiz
That's a really odd claim to make, generally female bathrooms are a lot more disgusting than male bathrooms.
Hudson Scott
ITT: A question about workplace enviroments turns into a discussion about gender neutral bathrooms.
Cameron Cox
I've heard that female bathrooms are way worse than men's bathrooms. The worst you'll find in men's bathrooms are some droplets of piss on the seat or floor, meanwhile women are dealing with bins full of used tampons and aborted fetuses.
Gavin Adams
who cares lole
Eli Edwards
>I am fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is Jow Forums is 100% anarcho-libertarian, same with Jow Forums and 99% of the planet.
Brody Cooper
Rape is high in the US and with it being a Christian majority country, men being with women is haram
Brayden Diaz
>im incapable of dealing with other opinions that are not mine. Conservatard indeed
>not realizing that not being left leaning in tech is a death sentence
you're not going to make it brah
Camden Bailey
Politics don't belong in the workplace
Nathaniel Wood
>work at Valve (video game company for you non-gamers) >male, female, and "non-binary" bathrooms >male bathroom is out of order >all men are forced to either hold it for 9 hours or use faggot bathroom >go in faggot bathroom >smells worse than any bathroom I've ever been in before >small trash can beside toilet is full of hollow dildo-shaped plastic things with some orangeish yellowish brownish filth all over them >the most vile disgusting homosexual demonic graffiti I've ever seen on all the walls and mirrors >see "trans-vaginal dilator" dispenser on wall >realize what those things in the trash can are >almost vomit >unzip pants and just piss on the floor then leave without washing hands >buy $50 worth of toilet unclogging gadgets and unclog the toilet in the men's bathroom myself instead of waiting for plumber >get a raise for fixing bathroom >there is still no Half-Life 3
Hudson Perry
>"politics don't belong in the workplace" >proceeds to put up posters on all the walls about how all white people deserve to be killed and Donald Trump making out with Putin >get fired if you say anything about it
Anthony Brown
Well, they're women. They're delusional. Today at work one of the women was saying how she went to the bathroom that's commonly seen as "dirty." Another one of the ladies was like "ew that's so gross." The men (including me) use whichever bathroom is closest and don't really give a shit.
I'd say that he's right that women would prefer it for "sanitary" reasons even if their bathrooms are more gross than men's. I can say from experience as a maintenence guy that the women's rooms were ALWAYS more dirty than the men's and rooms.
Jeremiah Lewis
name one company that has enacted this scenario you just made up
Jacob Reyes
>fuck this tranny shit t. Tranny Derangement Syndrome
Jonathan Lopez
That's the point, if the secret got out that 3d women are disgusting they might have to pay for their own meals
As always the answer is to hide your power level. >I am fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is Conservatism is a mental illness. Nut up and be a full blown fascist or libertarian, otherwise everyone will rightly assume you're just a retard who's scared of change.
Meanwhile in reality normalfags aren't even sure where roads come from.
Not sure why you wouldn't accomodate this if you have a spare room and you have a lot of talent from the middle east. For what it's worth, most prayer rooms aren't specifically Muslim - if you just want a quiet place to pray go ahead. I sometimes stop in there just to do some tech quiet reading away from everyone else.
Brayden Wilson
>a lot of talent from the middle east Most of us aren't writing code for bombs, no.
Ryder Russell
Most of us aren't writing anything.
Jeremiah Price
That's silly, middle easterners aren't writing code for the bombs they use - US contractors are.
Most of what liberals want are truly racist. You just have to make fun of them for it.
I had a girl at work say that the only reason Hispanics aren’t in tech is because white people are privileged and we are gate keeping. So I asked if she thinks we need to do something about it? She said yes of course. I then said she had a “white man’s burden” and that it’s white mans job to bring poor Hispanics into tech cause they aren’t capable. It truly is a racist view. This just happened this week and I think I may be in trouble.
Evan Nelson
That sounds like a seriously comfy perk. I'd gladly take a small pay cut for something like that.
Michael Ward
I'm a liberal but I agree that any attempts to dismantle meritocracies in favor of forced equality of outcome is deeply misguided. Of course companies that focus on diversity hires are thinking long term - when AI makes all jobs including tech obsolete the companies with more diversity hires (who won't be tasked with any real, critical work) will simply be more marketable for consumers.
Move to texas. There's another tech industry there.
Grayson Hall
open your fucking eyes to other stuff rather than sucking CNN's dick you'll see faggot
Brayden Clark
2 years. still not over it. LMAO.
James Young
This was a great thread for baiting the Shareblue NN shills on this board.
Oliver Garcia
That's pretty ironic considering the influx of people here from r/the_donald and stormfront in the past few years.
Aaron Gray
your moral delusional moral faggotry has no power here. did i mention hypocrisy? go to politics and circlejerk there cunt
Jose Gonzalez
Have you paid attention to anything that he's done in the past 2 years?
Jason Flores
That's a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.
Ryan Hall
whoah.. this blew my mind...
Nathan Watson
you have to be like them user. if you're silent they will assume you're another alt-right drumpf supporter, a misogynist, a nazi racist holocaust denier homophobe. just blame trump for stupid shit like a pen falling on the ground out loud every now and then
Owen Long
Have you? im not even american but i can clearly see trump is leaking the whole CIA, FBI, Obama's and hillary's corruption blood out to dry in the public. i mean you idiots tried every fucking thing and he still won. get fucked. adding to it, you are not even trying to hide it anymore in banning republicans and conservatives over all forms of social media. oh you will be the first to get a bullet in the mouth. that i can guarantee if civil war starts.
William Jackson
sounds like he won user. perhaps you should go back. you aren't intelligent enough to be here. :^)
Isaiah Watson
support microsoft embrsce consumerfaggotry
Brayden Evans
Why are you a racist who denies global warming OP?
Adam White
>That's silly, middle easterners aren't writing code for the bombs they use - US contractors are. If by US contractors you mean IDF and Mossad then you are correct.
Asher Jackson
>l-look it up how convincing
Tyler Miller
Do you even know how to program? What are you doing here? I can't imagine someone with the skills required of being in this field becoming so incensed. I also don't understand why, if we don't agree with what a president is doing or don't care that an office has made concessions for it's employees that we must be some far-left liberal extremists. Political discussion on the site (other than /b/) used to be a lot more nuanced.
For the OP, you really have nothing to worry about. Colleagues that work together, are competent, and aren't trouble makers generally don't push this shit on you.
Jeremiah Ross
the real question is how do you stop the president of the company from spamming company wide email with fucking ESSAY sperg outs every time trump blows his nose, without losing the ability to get the emails from him you actually need.
You don't accommodate this because it brings religious beliefs directly into the workplace. IBM in the 60s was probably 90% Christians yet they didn't have designated prayer rooms, they just all saw each other on Sunday.
Noah Howard
Deep, very deep. Most people probably won't get the subtext behind this
Blake Gray
I'll be the first to get a bullet in the mouth? You don't even know who I am, just that I don't appreciate big Donald working against the interests of the country.
I'm not even sure how you manage the mental gymnastics to justify Trump siding with Putin over the US fucking government. What is more likely, the entire US government, with tens of thousands of employees, is part of some conspiracy, or Trump is a crook?
Nicholas Watson
Politics became a zero sum game in 1964. Nuance is unnecessary unless you have a high opinion and hold yourself as some kind of pedantic intellectual.
John White
Does that really happen?
Jonathan Moore
>Nuance is unnecessary You heard it here first folks, no longer do you need to make informed opinions and decisions, or even base your beliefs in reality!
Samuel Murphy
yeah i know how to program you faggot. that's exactly why i have such a strong dislike to liberals and their diversity hires. did i mention propaganda whores who cannot work and put in HR but have more power than a software developer in changing the rules there. it was more nuanced because you fuckers were happy with spying your own citizens. now, because you guys are being outed, you are unhinged. doing every dirty trick in the book possible. every secret is being outed by you idiots now. it's only time before hillary and obama are linked to pushing those fake dossiers. go swallow a blade liberal faggot. every liberal scum thinks he can inject le blumpf into any discussion and if anyone even mentions against it, they are fired. what a delusional idiot you are. atleast accept you are going full on fascist censoring everyone whilst calling everyone nazis. jeez
Jason Cox
yeah fuck intelligence
Levi Lewis
>I am fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is\
false statements that you can't back up in you post that are based off of your feelings and not actual facts >trump sided with russia false trump has signed the most harsh sanctions Russia has faces and ordered actual attacks on Syria. >the entire US government, with tens of thousands of employees, is part of some conspiracy, Your statement is an appeal to the collective when in reality much of the people who have been actively trying to subvert the sitting president have been hundreds at best and only a dozen or so at the highest levels.
It's little surprise your so liberal. You have zero critical self awareness of your own stupidity. yikes.
gg ez
David Perez
hey it's working for delusional liberals. so, dont mind me doing the same.
Brayden Evans
>I am fairly conservative as I assume most of Jow Forums is No. Fuck off.
>you are not even trying to hide it anymore in banning republicans and conservatives over all forms of social media Interesting. The same people who were 100% OK with the NFL deleting kneeling players are now bawling when Alex fucking Jones gets removed from some websites.
I've never called anyone a nazi. Also I'm posting on Jow Forums, I'm absolutely against the surveillance state and censorship. You think that's an exclusively right-wing position?
John Stewart
>trump has signed do you understand how the governmental structure operates?
Adam Diaz
We're in a total war my dude.
Benjamin Howard
>Been a while since I have worked for companies like these.
I find it funny that so many conservatives are worried about being somewhere that they have to coexist with liberals. The whole alt-right media conspiracy bullshit ecosystem has done well convincing the gullible that liberals are something other than regular americans with mostly but not entirely the same political values.
The same thing sometimes happens on the left too but usually manifests as a rural/urban divide: "I'm moving to a rural red state, will I be shot by a gun nut and lynched by the kkk?"
If you are asking these questions then you need to put down Facebook and get out more. Maybe travel a bit. Seriously. The vast majority of Americans are just normal people who have almost entirely the same values with what are really only small differences blown out of proportion by the media you consume.
Jose Garcia
>Congress places bill in front of president >president signs it or doesn't >if he doesn't it needs to recycle through with a greater majority trump had final say and pulled the trigger. kys yourself my dude :^)
Gavin Davis
I agree with this sentiment. 99% of americans love their country and it's values on some level, whether they consciously think about these things or not.
Adrian Reed
Sounds like you haven't been in a hyper liberal dogma infused environment before. probably flyover retard tbqh, but I envy the bliss of your simple ways
Grayson Ramirez
How do you deal with the left leaning nature of reality?
Joseph Jackson
d..do you honestly think those are the same? holy fucking idiot. bite a cactus cuck. do you even know to stand up for a national anthem? pretty sure you hate your country if you think kneeling down is okay. also they dont even know what they are kneeling for most of the time other than trump hates it. pure hypocrisy. adding to it, they were told in binary talk if you kneel, you are done. alex jones was banned on vague points over 10 companies co-ordinated under 6 hours when others liberal pages are unsurprisingly safe from those accidents when they broke the guidelines. elsagate videos are still there. white genocide pages are stil there. you want to argue, alex jones is more hurtful. get the fuck out of here you fluid fucker
Michael Powell
>>Congress places bill in front of president >>president signs it or doesn't >>if he doesn't it needs to recycle through with a greater majority
This is wrong. If he doesn't sign, it becomes law in 10 days. AKA pocket veto.
I'm not following your little argument but just thought I'd correct you there.
Eli Edwards
biology has a conservative bias. but, your indoctrination in turning boys into sissies is working very well. i can give you that.
Lucas Fisher
So what exactly would you define Trump refusing to disclose his meeting with Putin to intelligence agencies? That's not exactly to the benefit of the US. Or how about revealing classified info to Russian officials?
I seem to recall you saying >the whole CIA, FBI, Obama's and hillary's corruption blood Which are massive organizations with thousands of people. When Trump refuses to co-operate with those agencies, it hampers the US' ability to conduct effective foreign policy.
Christian Ward
don't be delusional
Logan James
Back to infowars with you, non-delusionalboy.
Wyatt Hall
>I'm moving to a rural red state, will I be shot by a gun nut and lynched by the kkk? Yes. t. Idaho A guy I used to hunt with went to prison for car bombing a Prius with California plates.
Xavier Cox
boring
Nathaniel Taylor
read some actual left economical critique books before spewing forth your standard noxious garbage, perhaps you'll think twice.
>Which are massive organizations with thousands of people. When Trump refuses to co-operate with those agencies, it hampers the US' ability to conduct effective foreign policy. have you missed the part where they got the fake dossier to start off russian investigation. have you missed rosenstein and strzok's trial? you still think they are working in the best interests of your country? how idiotic are you? they are compromised. clean that shit out, then trump will talk. >we will stop him if you are defending this statement, you are an idiot.
Wyatt Lee
>Sounds like you haven't been in a hyper liberal dogma infused environment before. probably flyover retard tbqh, but I envy the bliss of your simple ways
Wrong, I'm at my job in downtown NYC at a fancy tech firm. Literally in one of the "nap rooms" near the frankly unecessary VR stuff for employee use. One of my coworkers is transgender. But nobody actually talks about it, nobody gives a shit, some of my coworkers are conservative and its a nonissue because there's no "liberal dogma" just like there aren't kkk lynch mobs roaming the streets of Mississippi.
Its you who are deluded, sorry.
Alexander Sullivan
lol @ the Trump is WAICIST meme.
That's why he gave a homeless black woman a centra park view appartment to live in for 8 years.
>>I'm moving to a rural red state, will I be shot by a gun nut and lynched by the kkk? >Yes. >t. Idaho >A guy I used to hunt with went to prison for car bombing a Prius with California plates.
There's always an example of something. But how many other millions live there perfectly safely and happily?