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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Gurpreet is your co-worker on the sister-team, over in India. He's hard-working, a family man, and takes care of his aging parents, all in their home village over the weekend. He spends nights in Bangalore, debugging and reviewing your code while you're asleep. His contributions to the project are pretty solid too, even though he's only been coding for four years. His management treats him and his team like garbage, but they don't let that stop them from showing up and doing a good job. If you ever came to visit, he'd roll out the red carpet along with his co-workers, and give you the kind of hospitality typically reserved for a minor god; doubly-so if it's a holiday.

Gurpreet is awesome.

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 4 points 4 hours ago

He does the needful and never ever has to revert.

All my bros and sisters love Gurpreet

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 113 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Now that I'm done being baffled by an ordinary name, it's about time for me to go vote in a major election!"

Right? Insane!

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A fiver says OOP has never left their suburb

The naivety of the person is what made me laugh.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, son. I grew up in a mostly white town, but there was still a couple of Sikh kids in my school. OOP must live in a zip code that's only been written down like four times.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gurpreet is obviously normal enough to be on a bottle of Coke where OOP is so I don't know

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, so presumably, they send out groups of names by an area's demographics. I could see them ending up with some very strange seeming names in some areas, either by smaller towns being grouped in with nearby cities, or due to supply chain changes, and stock for one area getting rerouted or mixed up.

Like there might be plenty of Sikhs in NYC, but go upstate and its possible someone's never heard the name, or met a Sikh.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 6 points 23 hours ago

The names are definitely somewhat geographical. They're different here in Sweden. No Gurpreet here

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 1 day ago
[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For anyone as uneducated as me: the name is Indian.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi is this the Krusty Krab?

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

This is Sparta!

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[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't get this post, is it just racist?

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, my intent wasn't racism. Of course the meme contains a racist aspect but the joke, to me, is that the creator of this meme is insular enough to assume that no one could ever be named Gurpreet.

[–] TommyJohnsFishSpot@lemy.lol 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's what I got too.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Or, in this context, probably ignorance*.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

that's the sound one makes when drink it

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

They never have a bottle that says Luci :((((

Edit: did I get a down vote because Coke hates my name? Good lord!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

You gotta install OpenWRT on the bottle to access that.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that short for Lucifer?

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago
[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Our goddaughter I'd called Lucie, its really hard to find anything with her name on

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Me neither. I did find one which said Ragnhild.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago (1 children)

Ragnhild sounds like something from german folklore that sneaks into your house at night and torsions all your testicles

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 1 points 1 minute ago

It's just a regular old name here. Not that common these days.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Aren't all the names ObviouslyNotBanana?

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Oh god I hope not

[–] s@piefed.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gurpreet might be the mentor

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this...the legend of zelda timeline?

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.

More context about the Hero's Journey narrative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I enjoyed working with Gurp.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume we'd all enjoy Gurp.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pleased to report that in reality, I did work with a guy named Gurpreet many years ago, and yes, he was a pretty cool dude.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 points 23 hours ago

G'preet *tips fedora*

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My boi Ginny is who Gurpreet is!

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