We have a Digital Storyteller (somehow, that never gets old).
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Feb 02, 2021 11:43:08 am PST #3052 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2021 11:58:09 am PST #3053 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Our HR/benefit office is now the "Office of Total Rewards". I thought that was annoying, but it is better than "People".
ETA: all I can think of is "Soylent Green is People".
Calli - Feb 02, 2021 12:16:29 pm PST #3054 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
People Team is made of People!
Actually, that's probably a good thing.
Jessica - Feb 02, 2021 12:19:57 pm PST #3055 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our HR/benefit office is now the "Office of Total Rewards".
Is it staffed by three Capital One cards in a trenchcoat?
-t - Feb 02, 2021 12:26:37 pm PST #3056 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Bwahahaha, Jess!
-t - Feb 02, 2021 12:27:25 pm PST #3057 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
If they start offering Soylent Green as snacks I will worry
Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2021 12:27:30 pm PST #3058 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jessica, LOL.
The worst renaming that hit me personally is that I work in Continueing Education. Of course we just can't call it The Continuing Education Office, because that would be too simple. So we were the Center for Lifelong Learning. Then we hired a brand consultant who came up with the name EdVantage (like Educational Advantage), which is both confusing AND we have a local credit union named Advantage, so everyone thought they called the wrong number. Later, when that Program Director was fired, I begged the Dean to at least Turn it Back to CLL. And we are still CLL. I am now part of the EdIT team, which you would think stood for Educational IT. But no, we are separate from IT, and are the Educational Innovation Team. We struggle with people calling us IT, people contacting us for IT, but no one will let us change to Instructional Design Team because they like a pun acronym.
-t - Feb 02, 2021 12:31:37 pm PST #3059 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We had an Item Transition team for a long time that was, of course, called IT and what most people would call IT was IS for Information Services but I think both have changed in the recent reorgs (Item Transition was just kind of absorbed into Supply. I think it's very funny that we have a Supply Team and a Demand Team and wish to pit them against each other in a tug of war to determine pricing, but that is actually handled by an entirely different department)
DavidS - Feb 02, 2021 12:39:47 pm PST #3060 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is it staffed by three Capital One cards in a trenchcoat?
Bwah!
I always preferred "Personnel" to "Human Resources," the latter of which seems to advertise exploitation. "How we doing on humans?" "Running low. Better squeeze more juice out of 'em."
Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2021 12:51:20 pm PST #3061 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I remember Personnel! Why did we change that???