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- From: rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo)
- Subject: Re: I don't want to keep looking for new jobs.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.220640.6179@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:06:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.091508@roper.mc.ti.com> a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph) writes:
- >
- >May I pose for consideration the possibility that management would love to have a
- >generalist workforce so that they can treat engineers as identical replacement
- >parts? It is difficult, and requires a high level of understanding, to
- >effectively manage specialists.
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-
- Of course you may. In fact, I would agree with you.
- That's exactly the way that many managers treat employees, hence
- the terms head count, and human capital. HUMAN CAPITAL? Just
- SEEING those words makes me furious. This is one term that I find
- most degrading. It makes me feel like a piece of hardware, to be
- used and discarded when the job is finished.
-
-
- >As an aside, it would appear to me that all the technical advances are made by
- >personages which are specialists, at least while they are making the advances!
- >--
-
- Bingo!
-
- Tony Rizzo
-