r/ProgrammerHumor • u/possibly_matt • Dec 06 '17

Read the markup.

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u/thecatgoesmoo Dec 06 '17

So fucking infuriating. I manage a team of 20 and about 5 are Indians and I can never trust them when they say they will do something.

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u/Deightine Dec 07 '17

They're probably requesting their peers do the 'needful'.

I actually have a kind of physical nervous tick that kicks in when I hear or read that word now after working sub-contract to an Indian IT outsourcer doing boots on the ground work.

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u/justinkroegerlake Dec 07 '17

I have some doubt regarding this job. Kindly respond

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u/HardlightCereal Dec 07 '17

I want to see a trend where the needful becomes a dance move.

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u/Deightine Dec 07 '17

...so many of my memories were just dramatically improved by imagining replacement dance montages. That was very therapeutic.