Could I be wrong? Really? Since the 70's I have begged multifamily to adapt and use more user friendly, politically correct, more 'flattering' terminology. Yet today I read many articles, see news/information regarding our industry, see forms and documents on line, hear team members; still using the old negative words. Examples:
unit, complex, project, tenant, maintenance man, to name a few. Which sounds better to you? A tenant in a unit in a complex, or a resident living in an apartment home in an apartment community? We still say waitress instead of food server, stewardess versus flight attendant, postman instead of letter carrier. Both genders work these jobs yet we use old terminology which is impolite and not correct. Women are part of many service teams...how unfair to say maintenance man rather than the more appropriate 'service or maintenance technician.' Most cities classify the former "garbage pick up" to sanitation engineers.
I am asking for support. Lets step up, into the 21st century, and get rid of old negative terms.