More like resouce deez nuts

  • CannotSleep420
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    1 year ago

    I hate techbros as much as anyone, but I think calling the department “Human Resources” predates them by a lot.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t say otherwise. I said it’s part of the liberal dehumanization process. Techbros are only the most recent wave of that process.

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        The company I work for is wise to the connotation of “human resources” and opted to call the department “people experience”. Now that’s techbro.

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          That’s still creepy and fucked up, but it’d feel like salt in a wound if they still had some bullshit up about “connecting humans to humans to make all humans into better humans” or the like.

      • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        The last 2 big tech companies I worked have renamed HR to “people Ops (Operations)” now for the cleaner image despite having the exact same role profile

        Now that’s tech bro

    • sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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      In my world it came in during the 90s, concurrent with early tech expansion. Before that it was called Personnel.