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Does anyone actually believe this post??? Because it reads like upvote farming.
Its posted in a humor sub soooo no
Not IT, but my dad said they lost a chemical engineering hire over this once, like 25 years ago.
To be fair they tried posting it on the Linux community on .ml and there were so many upvotes and positive feedback that it crashed the server. So they had to post it again somewhere more balanced to limit the impact.
We had a new joiner quit on his first day because of this. Didn't even get to eat the burrito he ordered :( So it definitely happens.
The employer? Albert Einstein.
Wait a minute, you're telling me a post on programming_humor might be a meme?!?!?!?
Memes are fine.
But this is straight up propaganda trying to disguise itself as a joke.
If I'd even encounter a dev like the one from the post. I'd laugh in his face and wish him good luck on finding a job that caters to their niche needs.
Meanwhile, I'd be "welcome to the team, you'd do fine here".
Don't get the white-knighting for Windows of all things. If you need Windows, ok, but that doesn't mean everyone needs windows.
Im pretty sure the entire joke is he's an obnoxious Linux user who will never get a real job and knows absolutely nothing about actual development work
Not really. My employer provides win11 too, but I do over 60% of my job on debian machines running in hyper-v. (the other 40% are administrative tasks and work restricted environments)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_in_autistic_people
Different people are different. For example, maybe ironically, your response also feels like it could be upvote farming to me. Also, the increased sense of justice thing is a thing.