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A comment on Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’.

Re:Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘in... by Invictus0 on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:10AM (#27392419)
Actually this term is not new at all. A company I worked with called Strongarm Technologies has been using this term for at least 5 years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160109195713/http://strongarmt...

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Re:Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘in... by avernon on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:43AM (#27393513)
You are 100% correct. This has been a common term in the manufacturing industry when focusing on ergonomics safety and reducing repetitive stress injuries for quite some time.

The connotation has generally been positive and was a created by the staff trying to improve safety and reduce injuries.

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