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You’re a rockstar and should join our team. We’re looking for amazing talent.

What no we can’t pay much but you’d be a rockstar!!

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they said they want a rockstar but can’t tolerate my alcoholism smh 🤦

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“Oh sweet you’re looking for a rockstar? Great” I say as I get out my baggie and start laying lines on the conference table in the interview room. “When can I start”

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You are gonna be exploited like rockstars are exploited by record companies!

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obsession with media and the production of it is my guess

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highly recommend checking out Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris, a look at the origins of the term “human capital.” It goes really in depth on this question.

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Bc it’s depersonalizing. HRs job is to treat human beings like cogs in a machine, and the more euphemisms they use to avoid referring to workers as humans, the easier it is for them to do that

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At my workplace (and a few other places I’ve worked) workers are called “resources” and it makes me want to pull my hair out every time I hear it

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Calling workers resources or talent satisfies the same purpose, which is to dehumanize workers and remove the expectation of necessarily receiving benefits (at my workplace, contractors are referred to as resources).

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My favorite part is when they call them resources, but then when I suggest that the reason they can t get workers is because of basic supply and demand (basically, you gotta pay more) suddenly all kinds of justifications come up.

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