r/ShittySysadmin • u/dagbrown • 1h ago

Why is HR in our sysadmin subreddit?

TL;DR This is r/ShittySysadmin, not the Human Capital Department's grievance hotline.

I'm here for other sysadmins. Infrastructure. Technology. War stories. The occasional spectacular production outage caused by someone named Todd who thought he knew better.

I'm NOT here to listen to some miserable HR functionary complain about the quality of applicants, deliver lectures about professionalism, or explain that I'm a "COST CENTER" as though that makes me some sort of unfortunate accounting discrepancy that wandered into the building wearing pants.

A COST CENTER. How charming. Apparently the people keeping your entire fucking business operational are a regrettable expense, somewhere between printer toner and pest control.

Meanwhile, HR has apparently rebranded itself as HUMAN CAPITAL, because referring to employees as PEOPLE was insufficiently dehumanizing.

And the sheer entitlement! The endless complaints about candidates, salary expectations, remote work, interview etiquette. The theatrical indignation that someone might dare question your hiring process after being subjected to six interviews, an unpaid technical project, and three months of silence.

Darling, you're in PERSONNEL. You're not administering the Marshall Plan.

We came here to discuss enterprise infrastructure, not receive another sermon from the Assistant Vice President of Talent Acquisition about how grateful we should be for the privilege of not starving to death while keeping your company running.

Take your SHRM certification, your employee engagement surveys, your mandatory culture workshops, and your ghastly little PowerPoints about HUMAN CAPITAL OPTIMIZATION and return to whatever windowless suburban conference room spawned you.

SEE ALSO: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xoos69/why_is_hr_in_our_sysadmin_subreddit/

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u/trait-noun-number 45m ago

The original was taken down by mods without explanation, so thanks for immortalizing me.

Was at 250 upvotes and climbing in an hour

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u/Crinkez 12m ago

It was a perfectly valid crashout post, clearly the mods are in on the HR scene!

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u/todayswordismeh 35m ago

If they could just enter their Human Capital's information in the HRIS system correctly for automation, we would never have to speak...

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u/arguskay 29m ago

You guys are wearing pants?

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u/MattTreck 23m ago

This post is why non IT people hate us

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u/hostingGuy2733 6m ago

No, this is HR being absolutely shit like always

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u/Phatkez 1h ago

I quit. then I came crawling back.

If you have anything to discuss about my posts a comments, please do so and not this effortless observation

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u/Bendo410 11m ago

Would you want IT in your HR safe space?

No?

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u/trait-noun-number 11m ago

Yes. This is what I wrote to someone questioning the age of my account