Cross post to the ritual circumcision thread?
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Writing a book about skepticism, but any quote from someone starts with âWell actually, âŚâ and proceeds to nitpick correct whatever the prior person said.
My entire team has only 2 dudes on it, so Iâve noticed using âHey guysâ to address the entire team is perfectly acceptable. My manager will even, sometimes say âOK well Iâm going to assign that project to the girlsâ as AFAIK, nobody finds that offensive.
But my ex works in big tech, and theyâre hyper sensitive about being a male dominated industry. Itâs not unheard of to get a quick note from your manager about using gender inclusive language if you use âHey guysâ to address the whole team.
In fact, hot tip, if youâre ever presenting at a tech conference, do not make a dongle joke, if you value your career growth. In fact, donât make that joke at all.
My company is a bit like this as well.
They want to be inclusive (which is good) but I do think it tends to stiffle people a bit.
Even when you go out for lunch or a social occasion, you really have to be careful about what you say.
Finally.
These fees were such a scam.
Yeah, to be clear, my manger who uses âgirlsâ is also a woman. I couldnât get away with that. I also have a coworker with âhotâ in her last name, so some people on the team use the nickname âhot ladyâ but I would never say that.
(Hot isnât actually the word in her last name)
There is regional variance in guys as gender neutral. I grew up in the midwest and it was common. Now i live in the south, and it marks one as a transplant. Not everyone immediately receives it as gender neutral.
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12th grader weâre trying to help give up on giving up so she can graduate brought her baby girl today. Baby is a little fussbucket today! Singing to her helped for a little while, but then it was back to crying for mama. 
I think itâs interesting how âtechâ has come to mean exclusively computer based technology. âI work in techâ now means I work specifically at a company developing computer software or hardware.
My thoughts exactly.
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Iâm thinking about pie.
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I always thought a nooner was having a drink with lunch.
That is apparently not what a nooner is.
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In the 70s, a matinee
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I have heard it in both contexts, but probably referring to sex on the lunch hour is more common. Your usage is not wrong though.
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Careful though: Apparently as a last name, Nooner comes from an old German word for âto castrateâ 
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Boy I sure hope the learning came without consequences.
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Speaking of words with alternate meaningsâŚwhere Iâm from âWhite Elephant Giftâ means find a piece of junk in your garage* (like a bent bicycle handle bar) and call that a gift.
*wherever
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I thought a White Elephant gift meant a gift that seems cool at first until itâs discovered that it would be hurtfully expensive to maintain
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