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Onboarding, Offboarding, Career Cushioning, and Resenteeism
The four horses of the surreal nomenclature of modern Human Resources.
If you’ve read any of my previous articles then you probably realise I have a great interest in the words that people, and more lately machines, use to describe things.
This is primarily due to my long term exposure to various programming languages in the Grand Game of Software Engineering and how they can radically influence how our creative ideas are converted¹ into executable code².
It’s also down to my fondness for Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, both of which I often to refer to, and especially how literary language, doctrine, and propaganda and used to model the behaviour of people.
But, lately³, it’s been rather disturbingly more about the modern dysfunctional workplace and how its managerial denizens, including more recently the minions of Human Resources, go about their daily business. That is keeping us worker cogs rigidly in place by initially crushing our spirit, then reducing our take home pay below market rates, and finally by curtailing our individuality and capacity for original thought by limiting the language that we can use.
