The email is not very professional. Rejection of Windows is fine, but that if that's the kind of language the candidate uses at work, the company actually dodged a bullet.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see an issue with it. There are maybe a few things I would say differently, but every IT job I've worked has had poorer language in the documentation, even sometimes the ones we distribute to customers.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

I would want to assume onlinepersona was joking, but maybe not.

BTW, in this case, being non-professional is referring to OOP telling the truth about his feelings.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What part of it is unprofessional? You specifically called out the language OP used - that seems totally professional to me. The overall message sounds like throwing a tantrum to my ears but that’s not what you called out. How do you think it should be worded?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

The "I cannot have faith..." sentence. It makes it feel like a reddit message.

I would have worded it more factually without questioning the future of the company and motivation of the employees by calling them "lazy".

Devin informed me that Windows laptops are mandatory and that there no exceptions. Unfortunately, this does not align with my requirements stated during the interview process: Linux or Mac are my operating systems of choice. Please consider informing future candidates of the tools they will be provided earlier in the process.

The assumption being made here is that the person actually stated their GO/NO-GO preferences during the process. Otherwise it is a waste of everybody's time to leave something so important to the day of signing.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Fuck off. He has principals and stuck to them, good for him.

You are arguing he should be more polite to some corporation that he owes nothing to. Fuck corporations, they do not deserve our time and labor 99% of the time.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Fuck capitalist professionalism.

[–] lambalicious -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, we don't owe politeness to our oppressors.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago

Your coworkers are not your oppressors. The people who own the company are. And maybe management if they’re assholes, but most people in management are just doing their jobs so they can get paid.