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Yeah, it's a metaphor that analogizes people and property. I wouldn't have any qualms about working with, say, purchasing managers who talked about "poaching"
by roc 15y ago
Yeah, it's a metaphor that analogizes people and property.
I wouldn't have any qualms about working with, say, purchasing managers who talked about "poaching" component orders from one another, because they'd be talking about property as property.
Do you really not see the difference?
- snowwrestler 15y agoI think you're really stretching here. The core issue is whether companies value their employees--that comes through in how the employees actually get treated, not the use of one word vs. another.
- artsrc 15y agoI truly value my wild deer. I treat them very well. What matters is a transparent, efficient, and equitable system. I submit vast effort spent on political and marketing copy as some evidence that words can matter. "Yes they can". What evidence do you have that words don't matter?
- roc 15y agoI think it's pretty hard to truly value and treat someone well if you think and speak of them as property.