Scooby Snacks 23

I for one HATE HR terminology.

An email has gone out this morning to all staff about a new training package. It describes the package as a "Sandpit" environment.

WTF is a "Sandpit" environment :

Why do HR come up with such useless terminology??

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

It means you can do whatever you want, you don't have to follow a linear path through various modules. It usually denotes a system which is the same as a live system, but changes are not kept past midnight.

The expression is pinched from computer games, which in turn relate to "playing in a sandpit" of course. It's actually one of more sensible things HR departments say.


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TopBanana

I agree - sandpit is quite a useful term. A lot of the HR stuff is cringeworthy though.

Shark Man

Sandbox if your American IIRC.


Think of it as where a cat dumps all its sh*t

what would scooby do

We call HR....


Human Remains

Varboy

We call it 'playground'.

IT project management uses far more business acronyms than HR.

MJW

Because justifying their existence by any other means is not possible

Leslie

What does "HR" mean anyway?

Les

Scooby Snacks 23

Couldn't agree more

Klaatu

It's a pit, full of sand, strangely enough. But also, when you stick your hand in, one usually finds cat turds.

Leslie

Looks like no one actually understands the meaning of HR terminology then, as well as me!

Les

TopBanana

That's right Les, noone understands your meaning either!

Bodgit

a friend of mine, not me honest. was seeing a shrink for a while to sort a few issues.

They kept throwing in it was "cognitive distortion" as many times as possible.

He then asked what it meant and they could define it.

TopBanana

I think it's when you change one word in a sentence to reverse the meaning, e.g. could / couldn't.

Leslie

Well "HR terminology" was mentioned and I have not heard of that before and was interested to know what HR is. I don't know how to make it simpler.

Les

The Zohan

To justify their positions and salaries, bit like marketeers and their marketing speak.

If you strip away all the bollox they spend hours posturing and posing and massaging thier own egos then you come back to the basics that have been around for donkeys years.

Spoon

Human Resources, Les. Type HR in Google search and fill your boots.

Leslie

Thanks Spoon. all is clear now-you can tell I never had an office job!

Les

Chip

Les ,

Personnel to the like of you and I

Chip

boomer

Precisely, a name that briefly became "Employee Services" in the mid-eighties (as in, serving the employee) before becoming HR, as in - lets treat all employees as numbers in a spreadsheet

mb

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

To be fair, the main job of HR is to tell lies to employees on behalf of senior managers, so that said managers don't have to get their hands dirty.



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Klaatu

In the infamous words of Dirty Harry...

"Personnel is for a**holes!"

Personnel departments were renamed "Human Resources" in the early 80's I think to reflect the changes to in how companies viewed it's employees. Employees became "resources" to be used/abused and then disposed of as required.

Paul3446

Has anyone actually worked for a company that had a great HR dept?