This sign always pissed me off

Well now that's stuck in my head

Same time Walmart employees became "associates."

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It's funny because you're mr. liberal on here yet the liberal mindset is what probably caused someone to say team member instead of employee. Look in the mirror.

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He's a baby boomer; they're the grumpy old liberals who feel unappreciated by you young punks who don't understand how hard they worked to get into middle management.

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I was reading the statement from American Airlines about the incident where one of their employees hit a woman with a stroller, and every time I read the term "team member" I cringed. The first time I heard it might have been as long as fifteen years ago, and it doesn't get any less annoying. If they insist on calling their employees team members, then the the COO needs to change his title to "team captain", and the CEO should agree to be called "coach".

...and get off my lawn.

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It's funny because you're mr. liberal on here yet the liberal mindset is what probably caused someone to say team member instead of employee. Look in the mirror.

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Corporate bulls*** is not a liberal concept. Blowing smoke up the butts of the employees by throwing feel good terms at them like "team member" in lieu of money or benefits is purely bottom line related. I know WHY it's done. I was just curious as to how far back it goes.

Is the organization not a team?

When workers started having "issues" instead of "problems".

At least 20 years ago.

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Same time Walmart employees became "associates."

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Was thinking Home Depot started this, but you may be right.

Probably the same time that MLM stay at home moms became "entrepreneurs" or "Regional Marketing Directors".

LOL

"Reach out."

I just took a new job ... Employees are referred to as "Talent"

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Aston04 said:

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Same time Walmart employees became "associates."

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Was thinking Home Depot started this, but you may be right.

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And everyone is a freaking consultant now as well. You go to whataburger and they call themselves burger consultants.

It's actually a relevant term on campus.

about the same time companies felt the need to always say they were shifting their paradigms.

Disney: Cast Members

Sleepy's: Mattress Professionals

Subway: Sandwich Artist

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Disney: Cast Members

Sleepy's: Mattress Professionals

Subway: Sandwich Artist

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Attention Subway....I can still order a Pizza Sub.

Actually doctors have been downgraded to "providers".

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I was reading the statement from American Airlines about the incident where one of their employees hit a woman with a stroller, and every time I read the term "team member" I cringed. The first time I heard it might have been as long as fifteen years ago, and it doesn't get any less annoying. If they insist on calling their employees team members, then the the COO needs to change his title to "team captain", and the CEO should agree to be called "coach".

...and get off my lawn.

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There's no "I" in team.

Of course, there's no "I" in employee, either...but there's a "Y" and that sort of sounds the same.

This type of thing started pretty far back.

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The decision to reduce the workweek from six to five days had originally been made in 1922. According to an article published in The New York Times that March, Edsel Ford, Henry's son and the company's president, explained that "Every man needs more than one day a week for rest and recreation.The Ford Company always has sought to promote [an] ideal home life for its employees. We believe that in order to live properly every man should have more time to spend with his family."

Henry Ford said of the decision: "It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either 'lost time' or a class privilege." At Ford's own admission, however, the five-day workweek was also instituted in order to increase productivity: Though workers' time on the job had decreased, they were expected to expend more effort while they were there. Manufacturers all over the country, and the world, soon followed Ford's lead, and the Monday-to-Friday workweek became standard practice.

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I fully support the team mindset in the workplace. I refer to bosses and subordinates as "team" almost daily. It's a valuable model of mutual support and helps creates a good culture. It's also applicable to small and large groups. Strict heirarchy can be helpful but in my experience (and industry) can be stifling and divide the staff.

The team mentality can also be hard to manage if you have underperformers because they can't easily just be relegated to less critical jobs. You need good people to really make it work, but if your HAVE good people, the sky's the limit.

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BostonAg74 said:

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Disney: Cast Members

Sleepy's: Mattress Professionals

Subway: Sandwich Artist

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Attention Subway....I can still order a Pizza Sub.

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My god I thought I was the only one that ordered these

I'm weird in a good way.

I thought I was the only one too.

Fluffer

When I worked for Dell in the 90s, we were proud to call ourselves "Employees" to differentiate from being a "Contractor".

In the early 2000s, I worked for a Company in Colorado that had its HQ in the Seattle Area. The company was horribly managed but... we were all called "Team Members" and we were all allegedly "equals". This company was so f-d up that they prohibited anyone from maintaining an organizational chart. Their philosophy was that you needed to talk to people and ask around until you found the right person. I guess somebody had read one too many books on "Neural Networks". They got bought out a couple years later.

When I worked for Disney we were all called "Cast Members" which I found utterly hilarious for Information Technology.

I've also seen grocery stores that have "Employee Owner" or something like that on their nametags. I think Vons or Pavilions does this.

Probably happened about yore same time customers started to be called guests.

Businesses pay big money to marketing agencies to "rebrand" their business and this is the crap they come up with

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BostonAg74 said:

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BostonAg74 said:

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I was reading the statement from American Airlines about the incident where one of their employees hit a woman with a stroller, and every time I read the term "team member" I cringed. The first time I heard it might have been as long as fifteen years ago, and it doesn't get any less annoying. If they insist on calling their employees team members, then the the COO needs to change his title to "team captain", and the CEO should agree to be called "coach".

...and get off my lawn.

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It's funny because you're mr. liberal on here yet the liberal mindset is what probably caused someone to say team member instead of employee. Look in the mirror.

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Corporate bulls*** is not a liberal concept.

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Yeah, he's probably never dealt with any HR or employment law issues. The PC police aren't restricted to campus.