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I feel like any company large enough to have a significant HR department won't count as a "rational human being". They'll probably fall into the "psychopath" ca
by Whitestrake 10y ago
I feel like any company large enough to have a significant HR department won't count as a "rational human being". They'll probably fall into the "psychopath" category by virtue of dispassionately and emotionlessly assessing how much of a liability you are to them if you're willing to demand they make counter-offers.
- Tom1971 10y agoIn a large HR department, chances are you're dealing with somebody for whom you're just a number instead of somebody has a personal grudge. Nothing personal, just business is the attitude you want when handling something as trivial as a salary negotiation.
- marvin 10y agoBeing a psychopath isn't about holding a grudge, it's about acting in pure self-interest with no regard for the effect on others. So psychopathy is a good way to describe an HR dept that does its intended job.
- Whitestrake 10y agoExactly - given the prevalence of "psychopath" in common conversation as violent, unreasonable etc., perhaps I should have specified further or instead used "sociopath".
- kobeya 10y agoThat is not what psychopath means. Maybe you are confusing with sociopath?
- mcv 10y agoAs far as I know, the two are synonymous or nearly so.