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

[Steven Schweda]

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

   Yup.  Ever since the folks in the Personnel Department
decided that "Personnel" was insufficiently grandiose, and
changed it to "Human Resources".  (Accepted and reviled.)

   Much as "customers" at a store (Target leaps to mind, but
it's hardly unique) are now called "guests", which is clearly
a lie.  The next time you're an _actual_ guest somewhere,
such as at a friend's home, I'd guess that you could probably
get a can of some beverage from the refrigerator without
either paying for it or risking arrest.  Until that's
possible at a store, "guest" does not apply.

   Similarly euphemized: Complaint -> concern,
problem -> issue, and so on, and on, ...

   What a world; what a world.