From the Bovine Resources Department
OK – this is not technical in any way – just a pure rant.
When did we go from being people to being resources? Was it when everyone started using Microsoft Project? I hate seeing my name listed under “resources”.I never see anything but people listed on a project as resources. I’ve been on projects where test-beds or prototype hardware were the critical resources during integration. Yet they were never resources on the Microsoft Project schedule.
The other thing I hate is the Human Resources Department; now days just H.R. When I first started working this was called the Personnel Department as in “person.” If we have a Human Resources Department should metropolitan police departments have Canine Resources Departments and Equine Resources Departments? Actually I’ve worked for some tech companies that should have Equine Resources Departments for some of the managers, marketing folks and even some engineers but that’s a different story.
I guess another part of it is that you never lay-off resources. You just downsize. Somehow downsizing your resource head count sounds better than laying-off people. And no one gets fired anymore; just terminated. Well that’s all for now. I have to go see to my terminated bovine resources.