Corporate Buzzwords

[R W Brown]

Our HR department was change to Human Capital. And this was after a joke about that term appeared in Dilbert. (Catbert selected human capital as more being degrading then call employees a herd!) X|

RWB

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Did the time spent on the name change get charged to overhead or the client? :(

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[Christian Graus]

Isn't it amusing when companies think they can keep doing what they are doing, so long as they just call it something else ?

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[brianwelsch]

Human capital??? I thought human resources was bad. What was wrong with Personnel?

BW

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[S Douglas]

brianwelsch wrote:

What was wrong with Personnel

That insinuates people / person(s), which flies in the face of most corporations views that there employees are property. :rolleyes:

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[leppie]

R. W. Brown wrote:

Capital

Capital would mean they actually own you.... X|

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[Lost User]

Question. You live in the US, have an English name, but your English is dreadfull? Why?

Tronché pas ma miche!

[Vivi Chellappa]

That is waaay better than "Hire and Fire"!