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Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ech@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does ring true dunnit?

    Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

    and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

    and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

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• ZeroTemp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I recently was recently reprimanded for using the term “subordinates”. I was informed that term has fallen out of favor. Direct Reports is the proper way to say it these days.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sounds good to me, I’ve never gotten in trouble for indirectreportination.

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  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What about indirect reports?

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    • toddestan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s who you are to all the people who aren’t your boss but think they can tell you what to do anyway.

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      • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or just your direct reports’ direct reports.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Honestly calling someone a “direct report” sounds even more dehumanising. At least calling someone a “subordinate” acknowledges that you’re belittling their existence. A “direct report” sounds like a piece of paper.

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  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fair enough. Subordinate is the term I've always heard used. Direct reports just sounds like the sugar coated version to me.

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    • ZeroTemp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yeah it’s totally the sugar coated version. It’s funny because I was only using the term “subordinates” because that is what the software platform I was training on calls “direct reports”.

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