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I don't think people are interpreting the term "poached" as literally as you are. Losing an employee to a competitor is bad for a company, especially bad for a

I don't think people are interpreting the term "poached" as literally as you are. Losing an employee to a competitor is bad for a company, especially bad for a small company, hence the negative connotation.

GuiA 6y ago
"Poaching" is terminology used by recruiters/executives precisely to control the narrative, and justify the kind of employee-hostile decisions that OP is referring to. It makes sense to reconsider the use of that word given that employers competing on wages and benefits does benefit the employees.
- Dayshine 6y ago
  Would you describe this as Poaching: - Finding a small zoo - Deliberately bankrupting them - Buying their animals cheap and slaughtering them In my mind Poaching equates to using illegal or unethical means to hunt animals. Bankrupting a zoo to rid the animals of their protection feels like that to me.
  - sk0g 6y ago
    It's used a lot in sports, where one team "poaches exciting talent" from another, etc. so I don't see a problem with it myself.
    - nogabebop23 6y ago
      This is not true at all. Professional athletes are all independent contractors with explicitly defined terms of engagement and restrictions on changing employers. They even call it "free agency". This is a different legal beast than a standard employment agreement.
      - baseballdork 6y ago
        It is absolutely true that poaching is a common term in sports[1]. [1] https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2023482-5-milwaukee-bucks-who-nba-teams-should-be-poaching-this-offseason https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2023482-5-milwaukee-buck...
- TheCraiggers 6y ago
  You're making a lot of assumptions that this is a win for the employees. Besides the fact that the employees in question were quite literally being given the choice of "come work for us or lose your job", there's things like the quote below from TFA: 'Patrick Meade, a senior engineer at Star Theory, said he turned down the job offer from Take-Two. He declined to discuss the events in detail but said he didn’t want to work for a big company where he wouldn’t have the same degree of influence or financial benefits if the game were a hit. “I was at a small studio, where the work I did had a massive impact on our success,” Meade said. “When I see myself at any large corporation, that is fundamentally not true."' It's not all about wages. (But even if it were, notice that he chose not to take the offer because of the lesser profit sharing. So it's not just a net win, even for those that did take the offer.)
msh 6y ago
Well poaching is a illegal act, none of the behavior above is illegal.
- rowawey 6y ago
  You're erroneously conflating two different uses of the same word. It means both things, but control-freak SJWs don't get to sanitize every meaning of every word.
rowawey 6y ago
This is such a stupid assertion and attempt to control others. The world isn't going to sanitize every terminology word because you say so. Get a grip.

GuiA 6y ago

"Poaching" is terminology used by recruiters/executives precisely to control the narrative, and justify the kind of employee-hostile decisions that OP is referring to. It makes sense to reconsider the use of that word given that employers competing on wages and benefits does benefit the employees.

Dayshine 6y ago
Would you describe this as Poaching: - Finding a small zoo - Deliberately bankrupting them - Buying their animals cheap and slaughtering them In my mind Poaching equates to using illegal or unethical means to hunt animals. Bankrupting a zoo to rid the animals of their protection feels like that to me.
- sk0g 6y ago
  It's used a lot in sports, where one team "poaches exciting talent" from another, etc. so I don't see a problem with it myself.
  - nogabebop23 6y ago
    This is not true at all. Professional athletes are all independent contractors with explicitly defined terms of engagement and restrictions on changing employers. They even call it "free agency". This is a different legal beast than a standard employment agreement.
    - baseballdork 6y ago
      It is absolutely true that poaching is a common term in sports[1]. [1] https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2023482-5-milwaukee-bucks-who-nba-teams-should-be-poaching-this-offseason https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2023482-5-milwaukee-buck...
TheCraiggers 6y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions that this is a win for the employees. Besides the fact that the employees in question were quite literally being given the choice of "come work for us or lose your job", there's things like the quote below from TFA: 'Patrick Meade, a senior engineer at Star Theory, said he turned down the job offer from Take-Two. He declined to discuss the events in detail but said he didn’t want to work for a big company where he wouldn’t have the same degree of influence or financial benefits if the game were a hit. “I was at a small studio, where the work I did had a massive impact on our success,” Meade said. “When I see myself at any large corporation, that is fundamentally not true."' It's not all about wages. (But even if it were, notice that he chose not to take the offer because of the lesser profit sharing. So it's not just a net win, even for those that did take the offer.)

msh 6y ago

Well poaching is a illegal act, none of the behavior above is illegal.

rowawey 6y ago
You're erroneously conflating two different uses of the same word. It means both things, but control-freak SJWs don't get to sanitize every meaning of every word.

rowawey 6y ago

This is such a stupid assertion and attempt to control others. The world isn't going to sanitize every terminology word because you say so. Get a grip.