tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post8531943655099416509..comments2024-03-20T19:23:09.857+02:00Comments on Notes from underground: Creeping nihilismSteve Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-18878804793873502392008-03-07T18:35:00.000+02:002008-03-07T18:35:00.000+02:00Yvonne,Yes, I think "personnel" was better, even i...Yvonne,<BR/><BR/>Yes, I think "personnel" was better, even if a bit military. <BR/><BR/>I think there were two things that contributed to my misunderstanding. <BR/><BR/>One was that the Anglican Church, many years before, had had a "Human Relations and Reconciliation Programme", abbreviated to "HR&R". And the other is by analogy with "PR" for "Public Relations".<BR/><BR/>I think "Human Resources" first appeared in the early 80s. I wonder who introduced it, and why it spread.Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-16529865848990448962008-03-07T12:02:00.000+02:002008-03-07T12:02:00.000+02:00I call it Newspeak, after the debased language in ...I call it Newspeak, after the debased language in Orwell's <EM>1984</EM>.<BR/><BR/>I do so agree about the term "human resources" - I am not a resource, I am a person (I preferred "personnel").<BR/><BR/>Wouldn't it be wonderful if HR did stand for Human Relations?<BR/><BR/>And as for "harvesting" - eeuuww. How about "recycling"?Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.com