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I hate the word 'Consumer' or I mockingly call it 'CONSOOMER'. Because that's to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We're no longer customers. We're consumers now. And a consumer's purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it's what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.

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[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two words but... human resources.

We ran out of humans to burn, can you check the freezer if we have any left from last winter? Otherwise I have to drive to the farm and get some fresh ones.

[–] Juggs@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Human Recycling.

[–] Pips@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's supposed to imply resources for the humans in the company as opposed to corporate resources.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

It's supposed to imply exactly what it says, resources for the company that are human

It implies interchangeability also, which is one of the reasons it's shit

I work in an Agile team, and in meetings with management one of the ways you can tell they don't understand agile is when they talk about the resources available between several teams - as if counting the test staff tells you how good a set of teams are at testing

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure that's what they're implying.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

HR never works for you, they're solely to protect the company.