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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ntbnmh$clq$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > Again, resources is a interchangeable term used for decades.
> 
> It's the context that matters.
> 
> Calling a department "Human Resources" isn't great but that isn't
> what I'm objecting to here.
> 
> It's when people start saying "Tom has 5 resources working for him"
> in everyday conversion instead of saying "Tom has 5 people working
> for him", or in your case how you said you talked to a support
> resource instead of a support person which is really dehumanising
> regardless of whether you realise it or not.

Reminds me of one person introducing another: "This is my date."  :-(