My wife is now Human Capitol. I am still an Employee.

"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond) 07/16/2020 at 11:44 • Filed to: None

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Apparently, all of these things in the above picture is what defines the term, Human Capital . My wife’s work has made changes with partnerships and now she suddenly works for another company that is managing a few departments that were previously all under one roof. Their paperwork and announcements, etc. all talk about Human Capital.

I personally sort of think it is just a slick rebranding of the slave trade, however one cannot use humans as legal tender to pay for products anymor e , as in four chickens for one cow, or three cows for one slave,   so maybe the slavery analogy is incorrect. But what it does is this:

It devalues the relevance of what the word Employee means. A PERSON who does compensate work for a business.

Human Capital opens up other avenues of disassociation from working relationships with your employee human capital . It makes eliminating resources , relocating forcibly, reassigning assets, and easy dissatisfaction with any results from your unsupported human capital assets   quite the more popular ways of managing said Humans. Employees with names, Human Capital, assets.

What do you want to be? An employee? Or a valued Human Capital asset. W hat makes you feel more loved and valued and more willing to work?

I’m an employee with a Fortune 500 company that is regularly noted for having an effect. I get treated great, and therefore I treat my customers great and they will like that and come back for more. That is the effect we have and hardly anyone else does things that way. That would never happen if I was treated like a Human Capital asset. I would have a daily middle finger to that approach.

For Sweden > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:04

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Professional employees offer human capital

Technical employees are just another system to malfunction and cause catastrophic failure

Service employees keep society running

ClassicDatsunDebate > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:04

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We’re all “resources”

wafflesnfalafel > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:07

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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:08

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Most bigger firms I’ve worked with never refer to their employees as such.

Gone > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:11

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Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work.

- A White House adviser, recently


Agree. I like to be a name, not a number. After working at a small family sized place, a giant corp, and then a medium sized one, I elected to go to another medium sized one when I was choosing between offers. At the giant corp I was just some number on a page and every other giant corp I’ve interviewed with/got an offer from felt the same. My wife works at a giant corp, but she’s a name because she’s moved up through the hierarchy to a certain level. Otherwise it’d been the same for her.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ClassicDatsunDebate 07/16/2020 at 12:27

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I was about to say the same thing. We are resources to be used as our overlords see fit.

RallyWrench > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:29

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Creativity is on there twice. Maybe it’s a F reudian slip because corporate life destroys the creative. 

ClassicDatsunDebate > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/16/2020 at 12:32

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Or conversely , we all have resources to help us get shit done.

Pickup_man > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 12:32

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I’m not really sure about either term because I am an associate. Not really sure what that’s supposed to mean, maybe it’s supposed to make me feel more important, IDK? My boss just lets me do my thing and they pay me well so they can call me whatever they want. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RallyWrench 07/16/2020 at 13:00

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I think they are just dividing skill sets along party lines

TheRealBicycleBuck > ClassicDatsunDebate 07/16/2020 at 13:42

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Wait. You have resources to help you get stuff done?!? Where do I get mine?

ClassicDatsunDebate > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/16/2020 at 14:09

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You have to be at least Overlord Level II in your skills tree to access Resources.  

Darkbrador > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 14:11

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Your wife is capital, but does she depreciate though ?

Mid Engine > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 14:27

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I honestly don’t give a fuck what my company calls me, so long as the checks keep coming. Honestly, I don’t have a single fuck to give when it comes to titles.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ClassicDatsunDebate 07/16/2020 at 14:27

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We have rankings? Doggone it! 

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > For Sweden 07/16/2020 at 14:47

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Service employees keep society running are stop gaps until sufficiently competent robots are developed.

Technical employees are just another system to malfunction and cause catastrophic failure stop gaps until sufficiently competent AI is developed.

Professional employees offer human capital are stop gaps until a significant portion of the economy is automated.

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > Grindintosecond 07/16/2020 at 16:23

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I hate terms like that, even though they are pretty reflective of how corporations view their people. My previous boss used to always talk about whether we had any “bodies” to work on certain projects. I think she thought it was funny, but I cringed every time. Maybe upper management laughed at things like that.

Grindintosecond > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2020 at 18:41

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United Health Group seems to use the shit out of the term.

Stef Schrader > Grindintosecond 07/17/2020 at 14:31

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Reminds me a bit of Marx’s concept of alienation. Regardless of whether you like the guy or not, he does make a solid point that we just keep getting further isolated from what exactly we’re contributing to society as a whole. Office Space also nails it pretty well:

Want to separate your workers from what they actually contribute even more? Start thinking of them as assets instead of people. Referring to folks as “human capital” seems to diminish the “human” half of that, for sure. It presents people more like things, and you certainly have less incentive to care about what happens to things. :( Move them around! Let them go! Hire them at the bargain-basement rate—you can just hire more if you’re too cheap about it or when you run the company into the ground! Who cares if you destroy everything when you’ve written in a golden parachute for yourself?