This will surely stop people making fun of HR : linkedinlunatics

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 121 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Someone works in HR and is tired of rightly being called out for being a corporate stoog who will always side against the employee...

"Am I out of touch? No, it's the employees who are wrong."

[–] pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know it was just a typo but I'm going to start calling people "stoog" from now on

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 14 points 4 months ago

Lmao

DON'T BE A STOOG

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If someone spends 95% of their day helping some people, and 5% hurting others, it can be hard for them to separate the two. It's a purposeful, systemic issue driven from the top down in more than just HR. Law enforcement, middle management, even insurance to an extent.

Business leaders need to step up to take responsibility for their teams before anything in HR will change. This is why I like small companies.

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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For *, you despise HR, those fucking corpo muppets that will attempt to stab you in the back at every opportunity.

Remember rule of acquisition #48:

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Never forget, HR is your enemy.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 78 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do I have to tip HR?

[–] Klicnik@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

20% is the going rate, or 10% if you work at a buffet.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why is she listing responsibilities of HR and asking us to feel grateful about them? Why do they act self-important?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The HR industry exists so that an entire subset of the workforce is dedicated to protecting corporate interests from the workforce

They're like "gays for Republicans" who don't get why everyone seems to hate them

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s funny is that no one wants to be in HR, it’s just that’s where they end up and they have to play it like it was not them settling for what they can get.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Same with insurance

Source: 🥲

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It may be the stilted writing. "Approach to" is as dumb as "as big of a".

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[+] nobleshift@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I know a lot of women with university degrees (humanities) who ended up in HR, for some reason, and very bright ones as well. And while I have experienced shitty HR, I've also had the exact opposite where HR was super helpful and generally great people.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've met ones responsible for introducing new company policies targeting specific individuals because their medical treatment was getting too expensive. I would almost rather deal with full-time landlords.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I’m fucking sorry but WHAT??

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guy in the Lab in his 60's - still great at his job - canned because his wife had late stage cancer and needed a lot of treatment. Those in the Lab knew that he smoked weed (the entire Production department also smoked). They tested him and no one else. Bro had an art to conducting a Farinograph that will be lost to time. His wife passed less than a year later.

The same company (very illegally) fired everyone trying to unionize a few decades ago, so it tracks out. They just didn't know how to form a collective and make a Class Action.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is vile. Wow.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome! I'm sorry for sharing. A lot of people left that place far worse off than me, and it was a tragic introduction to inequity for me. I'm here because I'm horrified. Most people should be. I'll give you more details in a DM if you have any questions.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Individual people might be decent, but the general goal of HR is to protect leadership (and profits for leadership) ... and should that be at your expense, then sacrifices must be made.

Anyone with extensive experience working for a large company knows the golden rule: CYA, and make HR CYA too, so they don't screw you over. And when they do, your CYA will make your lawyer's life easier, so the company will settle instead of force you to court.

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

The stupidest HR thing I dealt with involved an employee who had genuine mental issues and he always had the “everyone is out to get me”. He was African American, and would play that card constantly. The thing was, our little lunch group had a black woman and she kept telling him to knock that shit off.

HR decided that since we were all white and he is playing the minority card, someone had to go to avoid the lawyer issue as he perceived a bias towards him. Then we get a call about how HR was very sorry, and then suddenly he stopped following us to lunch and taking pictures of us while eating.

Someone in HR did some digging before firing everyone saw that I was a combat veteran and it immediately became a battle of which protected class is more protected. Turns out the combat veteran was and his dumbass said something about “he is a veteran and I don’t like that!”

I hate HR because they were going to fire us over someone else stalking us, taking pictures, and making up stuff that no one could confirm. He eventually got the help he needed after a complete breakdown. Ran into him at the grocery store and he apologized for everything.

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[–] driving_crooner 9 points 4 months ago

A lot of psychology graduates end working in HR too.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Who the heck makes inquiries with HR prior to leaving a job?

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

Morons, who play right into the hands of HR!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 4 months ago

The only times anyone should talk to HR is when they are hired for a job and when they leave a job and you don't talk to HR until you're actually leaving. Not when you're thinking about it. When you are ready to walk out the door, and you have another employment offer or you are retiring. Never before then.

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 50 points 4 months ago (5 children)

"Waiving the notice period" my ass. It's wild to me how this idea that it's required to give notice when you're quitting a job is so ingrained in society.

It's a courtesy you can extend if you want to ease the transition for the company or leave on good terms, but it is absolutely not required.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I think in many countries it’s codified by law.

But hear this: the employer needs to give notice too. Crazy right?

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In Italy it's required by your contract, but you no longer need HR fortunately, there's a dedicated website, and yes employer notice MUST be the same as the employee one...

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Under at will employment, neither side is required to give notice before ending the employment.

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[–] dditty@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago

Is HR in the room with us right now?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 43 points 4 months ago

It's safe to bully HR. Who are they going to call? HR?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 34 points 4 months ago

I've got a feeling she is HR

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Every job I’ve had HR is filled with complete idiots. I will always make fun of HR

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I work in corporate I.T and HR frequently tell us to delete user accounts only for us to then get calls from users who don't understand why their accounts are being deleted. This happens five or six times a year. I don't understand how they can think people are leaving when they're not. It's not even like they were on maternity leave or something, they are just plugging away, doing their jobs without issue, and then HR randomly decided they quit.

You have to be a special kind of moron to work in HR, a simple lack of intelligence just doesn't cut it, you need to be able to not only make a mountain out of a mole hill, but make a mountain out of completely flat terrain.

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[–] Moops@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

For when you want to watch someone go fuck themselves...

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

People a re starting to catch on that HR isn't some neutral arbitrator but really just corporate goons who will back stab you.

I guess this lack of trust is starting to get to them.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've never made fun of hr, never seen a reason to. Also I have the feeling, that they've very much my health in mind and are on my side more than the employer.

But I live neither in the USA nor India, so different rules, different culture.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe reconsider whether the department that calls you a resource exists for your benefit, regardless of your nation of residence.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely they have their own dystopian capitalist modus operandi, but just as a factoid:

HR is actually called Personalabteilung in my language (personnel department) and I am personnel.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is “fast reliving”? Some kind of necromantic spell??

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I think it’s related to “Doing the needful”

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What's an experience certificate?

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

IIUC there is a system in India to prevent people from working two jobs, which is that you need to present some paper that you get in your current job that certifies you left to get employed at the next one.

It's ghoulish if you ask me.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Capitalism always finds a way to make things just a little worse than anything you’d have come up with on your own. This is such garbage.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I worship His Shadow.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

His Divine Shadow.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It is I who often changes my behavior as per need? I know these words, just not a disorder

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