What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

I think it is unethical to regard people as commodities that have a certain monetary value. Ethics requires that we treat people as ends not the means to an end. An employee is contracted to provide "work" of whatever form, and he or she is compensated for their work. The employer is not doing the employee a favor by letting him or her work there, nor is the employee "property" for so many hours per week. The expectation that an employee does what he or she is contracted to do is not at all based in how much money or resources are potentially invested. (Nothing has been paid out yet.) The lack of regard for people in their employ is what furthers the division between socio-economic classes. They are people whom the employer needs in order to remain in business. They do not have to continue to work there if they are regarded only as dollars signs in the ledger. They deserve better.

 

Agreed.

Any time production is slowed down, it is costing somebody money. If that expense is not truly justifiable, the person paying out has every right to take their money elsewhere.

I agree with your sentiment, but:

While people are not a commodity, their labor is. They are offering it for sale at an agreed price.

When I first started laboring on the pipeline, I was given two pieces of advice by another laborer that still hold true today if you want to make it in that business, or really, construction in general:

-If you show up for work a half an hour early, you are five minutes late.

-The only reward for doing good work, is to get more of it.

 

The commodity in question is time, not people. I don't disagree with your thoughts, but you're addressing a slightly different point.

 

I get a sense that the phrase/question "Why not?" is becoming the norm, as a substitution for the simple phrase "Yes, let's try/do it" I'd like to stay with the "yes", and avoid the negatory "why NOT".

 

Thanks for getting the thread redirected back to the original intent.

 

you're welcome-I'm an "original intent" man.

 

Off topic....

 

but we're tryinta get back ON topic. It's a "redirect nation" .

 

Off topic...

 

how about the phrase "Take a look".? Our eyes don't "take" a look, they simply look, period. Eyes don't have hands.
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But our eyes take in visual information

 

Taking a gander can be harder though, they like to bite when agitated.

 

Well like they say what's good for the goose

 

Taking a gander. That's one I've heard all my life, any idea on the origin?

 

I have found that many people do not know the difference between "diffuse" and "defuse".

 

A mistaken order to diffuse the bombs, if obeyed correctly could have awkward consequences...

 

But, they'd smell nice....

 

I'd love to have an updated book on slang origins.

 

Not necessarily....