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I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that.

Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it?

I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice for this database vendor. I'd probably let them use it, but good god...


I think it's more to do with the resilience of the cockroach.
>nontrivial

Is that based on established data, or based on you having such a strong visceral response that you assume there're plenty of other people that agree?

Maybe this is a good opportunity to explore the experience of being a minority! It feels so weird that they either didn't even think about the possibility of people like you existing, or that they did and decided your money and good will were fine to discard.

I mean this without any facetiousness, this could be a very valuable experience for a CEO, in a position of power and authority, to carry forward. Even if you're a minority in some other way, maybe this will help you understand the experience of having dietary restrictions or allergies, or having frustrating sensory experiences with like overstimulation.

Why? Just because cockroaches are gross?
Yeah. My brain just starts thinking about mold and rot and disease and I can't divert it.

It's weird, because I can watch nature documentaries of lions eating prey without flinching.

Have you considered the possibility that you might be strange?
Think about them fried
With butter
Not the commenter, but for me this is it. I'm don't mind any other insect or rodent. But for some reason roaches are absolutely disgusting.

I know how silly it sounds but I would hesitate to work on any project that worked with this tech just because it would make me uncomfortable to hear the word so often.

You're getting downvoted, but I kind of agree. That's a terrible name for a company that has nothing to do with cockroaches. They might as well call themselves "Garbage Labs" or "Refuse Labs."
Cockroaches are the classic can-survive-a-nuke animal. Maybe that's what they were going for?

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