It’s a weird feeling when you realize you’re in management but still identify with labor
It's a big part of why I left management. Juggling the conflicting priorities is exhausting. It's probably easier - and explains a lot - when you can de-humanize your co-workers by calling them "reports" or "assets" - but that's not me.
It's kind of sick when you stand back and say it out loud. Those aren't "reports" or "assets" - they're people. The "Personnel" department is now "Human Resources". We don't fire people - we have a "reduction in force" or "layoffs". All so we can feel better about treating them like animals or worse. It's tragic, really.
@Biggles 100% opposed to that language and the mindset it enables/reveals - any people on my team are my responsibility to care for, first and foremost
Then layoff day is going to suck extra bad for you - as it did for me they day I had to fire people I'd spent months or years working with, all through no fault of their own.
And - layoff day always comes. Find one single company not a few months old startup that hasn't. In the US that is - other countries are more enlightened.
