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!!
my guess is the glorification of big money hollywood makes HR people want to pretend to be talent agents instead of just (probably underpaid) cogs hiring other underpaid cogs using deceptive methods
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
because the real commodity under capitalism isn’t labor, it is labor power: the capacity to produce, the latent possibility :curious-marx: