at a Coldplay concert, there was a kiss-cam where a camera would point at who the cameraman felt were a couple, display them on the Jumbotron, and then they would be prompted to kiss. The camera pointed at these two, where the guy turns out to be the CEO of some company, and the lady is his secretary. Both were married to other people, so they were caught having an affair and ducked out of the view of the camera, and it went viral.
Could someone not call them the Secretary of Human Resources and it also be accurate by meaning? I think somehow we have degraded the term secretary through sexism. Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense are all some of the “highest” roles in our country yet we hear secretary and apparently it has a stigma from this context
Why not? If they are a position that answers directly to the CEO who govorns a department named Human Resources. I personally think they shouldn’t report to the CEO, but they do in most companies. I think the head of HR and the CEO should both report to the board, but that’s not how it usually works
at a Coldplay concert, there was a kiss-cam where a camera would point at who the cameraman felt were a couple, display them on the Jumbotron, and then they would be prompted to kiss. The camera pointed at these two, where the guy turns out to be the CEO of some company, and the lady is his secretary. Both were married to other people, so they were caught having an affair and ducked out of the view of the camera, and it went viral.
She is the Chief HR officer, not a secretary.
ah, my bad, I misremembered it
Could someone not call them the Secretary of Human Resources and it also be accurate by meaning? I think somehow we have degraded the term secretary through sexism. Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense are all some of the “highest” roles in our country yet we hear secretary and apparently it has a stigma from this context
No. I hope that answers your question.
Why not? If they are a position that answers directly to the CEO who govorns a department named Human Resources. I personally think they shouldn’t report to the CEO, but they do in most companies. I think the head of HR and the CEO should both report to the board, but that’s not how it usually works
Because in a business environment, secretary doesn’t mean that, and never has. It’s that simple.
By all means, feel free to invent word usages. But I doubt it will catch on. It’d be confusing and make people think of what we now call “admins”.