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Once known as [[personnel]] then, in the heady days before banking become an embarrassing career choice [[human capital management]], now usually known as [[human resources]], possibly the least resourceful group of humans to ever emerge from the dark ages of free enterprise. | Once known as ’[[personnel]] then, in the heady days before [[investment banking]] become an embarrassing career choice “[[human capital management]]”, now usually known as [[human resources]], possibly the least resourceful group of humans to ever emerge from the dark ages of free enterprise. | ||
They are more than just a parasite, of course. Some have claimed [[human resources]] are some kind of [[extended phenotype]] — an adaptation that we depend upon for our own survival. The better view is that ''we'' are an [[extended phenotype]] of ''theirs'' (in the same way it could be said that wheat domesticated homo sapiens and not vice versa). | They are more than just a parasite, of course. Some have claimed [[human resources]] are some kind of [[extended phenotype]] — an adaptation that we depend upon for our own survival. The better view is that ''we'' are an [[extended phenotype]] of ''theirs'' (in the same way it could be said that wheat domesticated homo sapiens and not vice versa). | ||
In any case, a good portion of the [[Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - Book Review|bullshittery]] and pretty much all of the tedious [[virtue-signalling]] that is now such a feature of modern corporate life can be laid at the security controlled access to the HR department. For they who | In any case, a good portion of the [[Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - Book Review|bullshittery]] and pretty much all of the tedious [[virtue-signalling]] that is now such a feature of modern corporate life can be laid at the security controlled access to the HR department. For they who spend hundreds of thousands on back-to-work schemes for those who took career breaks to have kids were the same who spent the same period systematically making redundant those who decided to stay on. | ||
And who do you think is most (for which read “only”) enthusiastic proponent of the 360° [[performance appraisal]]? It, and the [[diver|dives]] and [[constructive dismissal]] claims it so brazenly solicits, keeps scores of [[HR]] folk employed every year. | And who do you think is most (for which read “only”) enthusiastic proponent of the 360° [[performance appraisal]]? It, and the [[diver|dives]] and [[constructive dismissal]] claims it so brazenly solicits, keeps scores of [[HR]] folk employed every year. | ||
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