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No, "Human Resources" covers it just fine. Humans are merely resources a company can use and discard as it sees fit.
by mverwijs 12y ago
No, "Human Resources" covers it just fine. Humans are merely resources a company can use and discard as it sees fit.
- percept 12y agoUnfortunately I think this one will be lost to the HN archives because of when it was submitted, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746758
- digi_owl 12y agojust like cattle on a ranch? Mooo....
- waterlesscloud 12y agoI spent some time this week reading old CIA interrogation manuals (which openly discuss "coercive" techniques), for personal background on the current debates. Anyway, the CIA interrogation manual for the wars in Central America in the 80s was titled "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual", which struck me as perfectly Orwellian from a couple of directions.