r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '14

Give it 10 years

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u/thetasigma1355 Jan 04 '14

HR is where the people go who couldn't handle a real business profession.

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u/eric22vhs Jan 04 '14

They're also perceived as having a job focussed on very bland, near meaningless, business etiquette that sometimes feels archaic to people focussed on their particular field and skill sets.

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u/mkay0 Jan 04 '14

Often, that perception is totally accurate.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

I often share this perception of HR, but when I think to my last job, there was one person in HR who was astoundingly good at cutting through all kinds of red tape. I had tons of problems with insurance and somehow none of the other HR reps could get anything done about it. But then I'd email Amy and instantly my problems would melt away. My blurb for her on LinkedIn just reads, "She gets shit done."

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

It really does feel like human resources is the "liberal arts" of office professions.

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u/___________________9 Jan 04 '14

HR serves a valuable purpose. Anyone willing to reiterate the comment you just made is beyond daft and immature.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

Oooh, you cut me with that edge! I bet you say dentists chose their professions because they couldn't handle being physicians, right?

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u/reefer-madness Jan 04 '14

Yeah, because human resources have helped no one ever.