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I have no issues with companies courting employees from other companies; it shifts the power balance a bit back towards the individual for a change.

I am, however, a little put off by the term "poached", which BigCommerce is actively using in their campaign. It implies the sentiment that these people are simply a quarry being hunted as a prize rather people, of their own free will, deciding that the grass is greener elsewhere. Language matters.




I posted a rant about that word on an earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7463417

Really, unless we think of ourselves as deer being stolen from the local land owner, we should stop using that word.


I think they used it, in part, to make a pun. Because BigCommerce offers them free poached egg sandwiches.


Is using the word "poached" just a joke since they are handing out poached egg sandwiches?


Nope! The poached egg sandwiches are a joke, since they're "poaching".




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