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Subject:RE: What are you really trying to say? From:"Steve Schwarzman" <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:31:19 -0400
>"Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent
judgment"
That's HR language for "this is not a management position, nor a position
that will lead to one." I can't recall seeing it in the negative formation
as here; usually, it's stated in the positive as a way of saying "we expect
you to figure out stuff we don't tell you and take initiative without being
closely managed."
In the job ad stage, this negative formulation seems clearly to be what
other posters have said with humor, namely that this is not a job for you if
you want to leave your mark on it in some creative way.
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