[LINK] Carbon-neutral web hosting
David Lochrin
dlochrin at d2.net.au
Thu Oct 4 17:55:40 AEST 2007
On Thursday 04 October 2007 17:34, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> I worked long enough at a company to see several waves of marketing
> droids come and go.
>
> At one time, customer support was called "The Customer Support Centre".
> New droids needed a new name. They dubbed it "Customer Service".
> Newer droids came in and renamed it (you guessed it) to its original
> name.
Who remembers when that part of the organisation which hired staff, and occasionally fired them, was known as "The Staff Department"? This was followed by the rather more impersonal "Personnel" until it too was overtaken by "Human Resources" when the retrenchments of the 1980's got into full swing.
I wonder what the next level of depersonalisation will be known as?
David
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