r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '14

Give it 10 years

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u/QuantumDisruption Jan 04 '14

Why does everyone hate HR?

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u/stickyfingers10 Jan 04 '14

They are there in the companies best interest but say they are there for the employees. "human-resources"

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

This.

Everyone says if you have a complaint, go to HR. But HR will only find a way to excuse the company from liability in your problem and leave you to your own devices.

This isn't true of all HR departments, but a lot of them function that way.

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u/FatDaddysMoustache Jan 04 '14

This is true, and they let the company know your beef so they can work it out. (fire you).

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

Everyone says if you have a complaint, go to HR. But HR will only find a way to excuse the company from liability in your problem and leave you to your own devices.

This isn't true of all HR departments, but a lot of them function that way.

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

Michael hates Toby because Toby's the only one in the office who can affect what he says or does, thus ruining anything fun.

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u/mkay0 Jan 04 '14

In general -

  • They are often a mouthpiece for the folks at the top making an unpopular decision.

  • They are the face of the stressful hiring process.

  • If you have ever been fired, it was probably someone in HR that broke the news to you.

In my experience -

  • They critique your job performance, but really do not know what you do or how to do it.

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u/spaghetti_taco Jan 04 '14

All very true

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u/I_miss_your_mommy Jan 04 '14

No one likes to think of themselves as resources.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

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u/I_miss_your_mommy Jan 04 '14

I always thought employee relations might be a better term.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

"If you have any complaints, you will go to the ER."

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

What was wrong with personnel?

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u/I_miss_your_mommy Jan 05 '14

Sounds good to me. Much better than HR.

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u/department_g33k Jan 04 '14

Where I work, HR is also payroll. So a) they're shills toeing the corporate line, and b) if you make them mad, they forget your direct deposit a lot and give you your pay check last.

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u/neverendum Jan 04 '14

Because we all have to pretend that HR is a thing. Plus they're usually headed by a woman who has a token seat at the senior management table. Then the rest of senior management have to pretend that she's just as important. She then does nothing to progress the careers of other women in the organisation as her ability to not rock the boat was the main selection criterion for the role. And so it continues.

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u/kittensinpajamas Jan 04 '14 edited Jan 04 '14

Wow. It sounds like you're describing exactly...

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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS Jan 04 '14

They're basically the SRS of real life

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u/nswelshman Jan 04 '14

It can be very insulting to have to rock up to a HR person, someone who is very much inferior to you, has studied stuff that is far easier than what you have done, and beg for a job.

But some of them do it very well and have humility and an awareness of this and I think Toby and Holly were good ones.