[Info-vax] [OT] People, not resources, was: Re: What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
> Of Simon Clubley via Info-vax
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> Cc: Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
> Earth.UFP>
> Subject: [Info-vax] [OT] People, not resources, was: Re: What
> would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38"
> (OpenSSL on VMS)
> 
> On 2016-10-06, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I posed the following question to one of the senior support
> resources
> > at Process Software:
> >
> 
> They are people, not "resources".
> 
> Not directed specifically at you Kerry, but I've seen this once
too
> many times recently and it's bad enough when non-technical
> people call them this without the technical people starting to
join
> in as well.
> 

Not sure where you get the idea of a resource being a bad word...
In the IT world - especially the IT project world, staff have
always been referred to as resources.

Just open any project management tool like MS Project. There is a
"Resources" tab and underneath that there is a menu item "Assign
Resources" where you input the people names that will be the
resources working on the project.

> Or am I the only one who gets annoyed at people being given
> generic labels designed to dehumanise the people behind the
> label with the idea of making other people think of them as
being
> disposable commodities without any thought needing to be given
> to the person behind the label ?
> 
> Simon.
> 
> PS: Sorry your post was the one which caused me to finally say
> something about this, and I want to repeat that it was only one
of
> a series of references I've seen too many times in various
online
> media recently.
> 

Again, this is accepted terminology in the business / HR world
that has been around for decades.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com