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“When she gets distracted looking at cat pictures”

This is not the behaviour of someone who is comfortable and enjoying their job. Has anyone reached out to your female colleague to ask if everything is ok. What their goals and aspirations are and how the company can help them reach those?

Could you all just be sitting back watching a team member fail not helping because of their gender and your fear of talking to them / management about them?

This whole situation could it’s self be a manifestation of sexism. Not even intentionally.




Surely it's the behaviour of someone who is very much comfortable and enjoying their job. Getting well paid to waste time on Instagram all day without risk of being fired is many people's idea of a dream job!


Perhaps. My experience of people comfortable in, and enjoying their job is that they are good at it and do it, usually quite socially.

Procrastination or “wasting time on instagram” would be better described as a symptom of dissatisfaction or discomfort.


For developers sure, because we tend to intrinsically enjoy our work. Sadly, many people don't.




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