I’ll stay out here thanks
So something happened over the last few days. Not to me. In fact I’m not even sure what it was.
On twitter I follow lots of people. Close to 400 actually.
Last night from the programmer/agile contingent I started seeing a lot of..well…whining. It was whining and complaining about some award, who it was granted to and who it wasn’t granted to. There was bitching about too few women being in the nominee list for the award. There were complaints about whose fault it was and who were the stakeholders and who REALLY made the decisions around here and the “after all I’ve done for you”s, and on and on.
These are people I’ve respected, some good minds in the industry and they were behaving like a bunch of fucking whiny 6 year olds. Scratch that. I in fact know six year olds who behave better. Not an exaggeration.
I’ve watched this go on before. It seems to happen whenever there is an inner circle of something, and no area of human endeavor is immune.
Within this field I watched it in the late 90’s on “The Patterns List.” I’ve seen it in the early 90’s when I ran a hippyish pagan semi-annual 3-day weekend/camping trip. (yeah, THERE’S a special kind of drug induced nightmare, Mikey as a neopagan liberal.)
This is where I’d say “people are always like that so I shouldn’t blame them.”
Fuck ‘em.
If you can’t conduct yourself like an adult, you need to stay in the little inflatable pool where everybody knows you’re just standing there wetting yourself anyway.
It really makes me sick to death. But I get the impression with this last bout of whateverthehellthisis that it’s a really severe temptation of the soul, to jockey for your place “in the club.” People get crushed by it. They even create their own clubs for the express purpose of being a part of them.
I wonder…
I haven’t thought this through yet, so I’m not sure what I’m going to land yet. I’ll probably refine my head then go post about it elsewhere.