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HR Inappropriate Words

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Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.
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This tool has nothing to do with email. And you'd be amazed at how many people will use truly offensive language (not just stuff like idiot, stuff like racist labels, etc) at work.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
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:laugh:

You've hit the nail on the head.

Just a way for HR to cover their ass, ' we provided them with a tool that flagged every word they typed, so we're not responsible for hiring someone inappropriate'

:laugh:

It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'

😉
 
Originally posted by: dug777
It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'
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AWESOME. Why stop at words, let's ban letters of the alphabet too!

HotChic, you'd better hire dug777 fast cos his word-haxx0rin talents are gonna be in serious demand.

 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
Click to expand...

:laugh:

You've hit the nail on the head.

Just a way for HR to cover their ass, ' we provided them with a tool that flagged every word they typed, so we're not responsible for hiring someone inappropriate'

:laugh:

It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'

😉
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The thing is, if the employees are doing what they should be doing, they'll never run into the flag. The only time they'll see it is if they use a word they're not supposed to. So what harm does it do to have it there? If you do everything right, you don't run into it. If you do it wrong, good thing we had it. ???
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dug777
I suggest you flag every word in the OED to be honest, i really need a better explanation of what this tool does?

I always assumed that people wrote to each other in a fashion that abided to common sense at work...
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Couldn't be further from the truth. You have a lot of faith in the average person's level of common sense. 🙂


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How true - look at all the vacations that get handed out here at OT

Anandtech Moderator
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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
Click to expand...

:laugh:

You've hit the nail on the head.

Just a way for HR to cover their ass, ' we provided them with a tool that flagged every word they typed, so we're not responsible for hiring someone inappropriate'

:laugh:

It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'

😉
Click to expand...

The thing is, if the employees are doing what they should be doing, they'll never run into the flag. The only time they'll see it is if they use a word they're not supposed to. So what harm does it do to have it there? If you do everything right, you don't run into it. If you do it wrong, good thing we had it. ???
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You flagged 'cheap'. You flagged 'ridiculous'. You flagged 'foolish'. You flagged 'niggardly'

Those are perfectly legitimate words, so i would imagine from that subset that most normal people would hit something you've flagged regularly, and it would annoy the hell out of them.

Good thing you picked up people saying 'cheap', that word will start riots that will 😉

God forbid they have decent vocabulary and type 'niggardly', because we all know that is so offensive..wait..no it isn't 😛
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
Click to expand...

:laugh:

You've hit the nail on the head.

Just a way for HR to cover their ass, ' we provided them with a tool that flagged every word they typed, so we're not responsible for hiring someone inappropriate'

:laugh:

It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'

😉
Click to expand...

The thing is, if the employees are doing what they should be doing, they'll never run into the flag. The only time they'll see it is if they use a word they're not supposed to. So what harm does it do to have it there? If you do everything right, you don't run into it. If you do it wrong, good thing we had it. ???
Click to expand...

You flagged 'cheap'. You flagged 'ridiculous'. You flagged 'foolish'. You flagged 'niggardly'

Those are perfectly legitimate words, so i would imagine from that subset that most normal people would hit something you've flagged regularly, and it would annoy the hell out of them.

Good thing you picked up people saying 'cheap', that word will start riots that will 😉

God forbid they have decent vocabulary and type 'niggardly', because we all know that is so offensive..wait..no it isn't 😛
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The suggestion returned by those words are that they should be supported by examples of specific behavior. Otherwise it's just name calling. ??? This isn't a ban list, it's a flag list.
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Actual words:

rhubarb
whistle
cake
elephant
houses
moon
tree
fantastic
hi
gravel
ocean
thanks
technological
the
far

Just cos I think the existence of this list is stupid, let's make it a stupid list. If HR can't employ people capable of communicating, they have issues. If people can't deal with receiving an email without going super-emo and lawyered up, they have issues. Fvck them.

Edit: so it's for descriptions of stuff. Isn't there a content review process? Again, if you can't trust the people employed, game over.
Click to expand...

:laugh:

You've hit the nail on the head.

Just a way for HR to cover their ass, ' we provided them with a tool that flagged every word they typed, so we're not responsible for hiring someone inappropriate'

:laugh:

It might be easier if HR just stood over their shoulders and vetted every letter typed...'no Mr Jones, the letter 'x' has pornographic connotations, i'm afraid you'll have to remove that'

😉
Click to expand...

The thing is, if the employees are doing what they should be doing, they'll never run into the flag. The only time they'll see it is if they use a word they're not supposed to. So what harm does it do to have it there? If you do everything right, you don't run into it. If you do it wrong, good thing we had it. ???
Click to expand...

You flagged 'cheap'. You flagged 'ridiculous'. You flagged 'foolish'. You flagged 'niggardly'

Those are perfectly legitimate words, so i would imagine from that subset that most normal people would hit something you've flagged regularly, and it would annoy the hell out of them.

Good thing you picked up people saying 'cheap', that word will start riots that will 😉

God forbid they have decent vocabulary and type 'niggardly', because we all know that is so offensive..wait..no it isn't 😛
Click to expand...


The suggestion returned by those words are that they should be supported by examples of specific behavior. Otherwise it's just name calling. ??? This isn't a ban list, it's a flag list.
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I understand that. It just makes me sad that people need something like that at work, or more to the point, that HR has decided that we need something like that 🙁
 
Originally posted by: dug777
I understand that. It just makes me sad that people need something like that at work, or more to the point, that HR has decided that we need something like that 🙁
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I agree that it's sad. Honestly, I don't think we should need it, but I see more imbecile things come across my desktop than you would believe.

The intelligent people think it's idiotic but there is a significant lack of common sense in the population at large and there's probably 20-30% of the population that will encounter this and will need it. At least, in my experience.

It's been very interesting to be a technical person on the back end and realize two things:
1. How challenged an employee population is with common sense legal stuff
2. How challenged HR people are with common sense computer stuff

🙂
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
The thing is, if the employees are doing what they should be doing, they'll never run into the flag. The only time they'll see it is if they use a word they're not supposed to. So what harm does it do to have it there? If you do everything right, you don't run into it. If you do it wrong, good thing we had it. ???
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In Soviet Russia, flag filters you! 😉

I just find it utterly depressing that this is needed at all. I think dug has already covered this, but some of the words going onto this list are bizarre. It's hard to understand the point of this when its application is so generically specified (to us anyway).

Also, where do you draw the line? A lot of words have more than one meaning depending on context so lots of frustration for the average user. Then they start getting around the filter which defeats the purpose. Just seems like a waste of time. Either hire decent workers or review the content then get rid of them if they aren't up to the job. Obviously you've been tasked with this so that doesn't apply. Oh well.
 
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