associate
What a company calls their cheap-labored employees to make them feel like they are important when in fact they don't mean sh*t to them because they have no power at all.
Example:
I can't believe that the largest company in the world still calls their $7 slaves "associates"... like they have something to do with the company's management...
I can't believe that the largest company in the world still calls their $7 slaves "associates"... like they have something to do with the company's management...