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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @10:56PM (#12098698)
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.
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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer by pklausler on Thursday July 14, 2016 @11:04PM (#12098717)
They had to go with "HR" because "Geheimstaatspolizei" was too hard to spell.
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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer by dragonwriter on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:09AM (#12099219)
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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