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To: Neocon who wrote (76180)	10/2/2003 11:35:00 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I can understand how the uninformed my resort to generalizations about an entire group based on their subjective experience of an event or two. One is surprized, however, when educated people parrot these generalizations (especially when they are of a slurring and offensive nature) without some objective verification. Of course, if the feelings of HR workers are of no concern to you, and if you feel no social obligation to refrain from offensive and damaging accusations which are merely anecdotal...then you would have no discomfort in such generalizations which accuse a large group of people as being unqualified to work with people in a manner which the rest of us can respect and approve of.

To: Neocon who wrote (76180)	10/2/2003 11:36:36 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

PMFJI, but one of the reasons Dilbert is so popular is that office workers find much truth in his stereotypes. And the "evil HR director" is one of his regulars. If that weren't a common perception, the cartoons wouldn't be as popular as they are. Not that all HR directors are evil. Or that most, or even many, of them aspire to being evil. But the nature of their jobs tends to turn them into certain kinds of people (or else, the jobs attract people who have those latent traits to begin with). All stereotypes have a grain of reality buried in them, or they wouldn't persist as stereotypes.