> 8. Don’t insult anyone, accidentally or on purpose. I once wrote an update that said something along the lines of “our engineers don’t know anything and therefore can’t ship, we need better engineers”, and sent it to everyone including the engineers themselves. It was factually true, but crude and unnecessary. Don’t do this.
Being charitable to the author, the wording might’ve been like “our engineers aren’t familiar with this domain” or “we lack staff-level engineers”. I doubt they literally sent out an email saying their engineers don’t know anything. That’s probably also why the author specifies “accidentally or on purpose.”
What the hell?