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radlad on July 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programm...

I thought the idea behind "Human Resources" was that the people who work in HR are supposed to be a resource for humans, not the other way around.

pklausler on July 15, 2016 | [–]

They had to go with "HR" because "Geheimstaatspolizei" was too hard to spell.

dragonwriter on July 15, 2016 | [–]

Er, no, it's not it's because that group manages a particular set of resources for the company, to wit, the human ones.

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