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This! A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource". "One of our team members can help you with X" at least refers to a person than a p

This! A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource". "One of our team members can help you with X" at least refers to a person than a person as an object or a thing... Employers must forget the 40 hour week as a measure of someone's productivity and instead set goals to be achieved. Manage/Treat people like people,be kind, but firm, if you can't trust someone in your team, you hired wrong or you have trust issues yourself. Its not rocket science, no matter how much BS the Simon Sinek`s of the world spout out.

0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
> A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource". Someone should notify HR about this injustice.
- dylan604 4y ago
  Do you contact HR when HR offends you?
  - m00x 4y ago
    I was SA'd by the VP of HR at a previous company. I asked around, and apparently there is no one that can report that to except for HR, so in several companies HR can do anything they want.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  I have an insurances company that addresses me (a customer) as ‘Mr 142,620’. I’m fine with calling their staff something similar.
  - Zancarius 4y ago
    I now have a vision of this conversation: "How are you today, Mr. 142,620?" "I'm fine, nameless, faceless script-reading CSR rep. How are you?"
- psymon101 4y ago
  :) I just see it as common curtesy to members of their own team. Then again, maybe I am just old school as a 49 year-old CTO.
blitzar 4y ago
I will have my lackey deal with your complaint.
prepend 4y ago
I don’t have a set of clear goals and objectives. I have a very broad problem area and my job is “make this better.” And I’m salaried so I spend about 40-60 hours per week in this area. I think my employer trusts me quite a bit. For task based jobs by all means figure out a cost and bill by the item. Some professionals do this. I paid my accountant $600 and didn’t care how long it took her.
ilyt 4y ago
Software houses need to bill client for something and usually that is just number_of_hours * rate, where is the push for "accurate" reporting comes from.

0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago

> A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource". Someone should notify HR about this injustice.

dylan604 4y ago
Do you contact HR when HR offends you?
- m00x 4y ago
  I was SA'd by the VP of HR at a previous company. I asked around, and apparently there is no one that can report that to except for HR, so in several companies HR can do anything they want.
lostlogin 4y ago
I have an insurances company that addresses me (a customer) as ‘Mr 142,620’. I’m fine with calling their staff something similar.
- Zancarius 4y ago
  I now have a vision of this conversation: "How are you today, Mr. 142,620?" "I'm fine, nameless, faceless script-reading CSR rep. How are you?"
psymon101 4y ago
:) I just see it as common curtesy to members of their own team. Then again, maybe I am just old school as a 49 year-old CTO.

blitzar 4y ago

I will have my lackey deal with your complaint.

prepend 4y ago

I don’t have a set of clear goals and objectives. I have a very broad problem area and my job is “make this better.” And I’m salaried so I spend about 40-60 hours per week in this area. I think my employer trusts me quite a bit. For task based jobs by all means figure out a cost and bill by the item. Some professionals do this. I paid my accountant $600 and didn’t care how long it took her.

ilyt 4y ago

Software houses need to bill client for something and usually that is just number_of_hours * rate, where is the push for "accurate" reporting comes from.