A new hire is meandering around the work area at a company I have consulted with. The HR manager walks in.
”Hi, welcome (name withheld to protect the innocent), we are so glad to have you. Here is where your cube is, if you have any questions let me know. We are so glad to have you join us! Let me walk you through the area.”
Stops in front of my cube...
“You can tell the associates from the temps based on the company name on the name badge.”
Inside 4 sentences and literally 30 seconds, the HR manager had degraded the consultants and contractors as “temps”. I found it ironic that the manager did not find it necessary to introduce any of the developers that the new associate would be working with... but she felt compelled to introduce an admin assistant who happened to be one of the only full-timers in sight.
OK, not “project management”, but Dilbert-esque all the same.