>>Could'nt agree with you more. I really liked your 'eat at someone else's table' analogy. More and more companies are now looking into treating their employees as accountable assets.
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>I'm not sure about assets, but I have worked for a company whose attitude to employees took a very noticeable change (for the worse, in most peoples opinion) & renamed the Personnel dept. to "Human Resources". We felt, & were often treated, on a par with other resources, such as desks, chairs, etc.
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>More than once I was in the position of not being able to employ highly qualified & very able people, because the "Human Resources" department said that their personality profile tests showed that they did not fit the company profile & I had to employ less able people.

Ha! I have come across very few who have a good word to say about these aptitude/personality profile/psychometric/isometric(?!) tests. They are probably as useless as fur coat at noon in the middle of the Sahara. If you compare a chimp's personality profile with that of a human's, surely logic says that the human's personality and intellectual profile will be superior. But if the job's to climb trees mate, the jury's out!

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