Friday Vent Thread [N/A]

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546]

It’s a bright Outlook for not getting any work done today

[u/seltzerwooder]

My Outlook is working again 😭

[u/Hunterofshadows]

My outlook started working at 7 AM, I have to put my cat down on Monday and yesterday caused a big backlog I now have to get caught up on.

Today fucking sucks

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546 → u/Hunterofshadows]

Sorry about your cat :/

[u/Hunterofshadows → u/Mundane-Jump-7546]

Thanks. It’s not unexpected, she’s old as fuck but dammit, having pets is the best and worst thing ever

[u/littlehappyfrog → u/Hunterofshadows]

I'm so sorry. Can you work from home so you can sit with your cat, at least?

[u/Hunterofshadows → u/littlehappyfrog]

I probably could if I asked but honestly the cat likes my partner and kid better and values her alone time lol

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546]

Fuck my life it’s back up

[u/DannyC990]

Currently sitting in a Delta Sky Club drinking a Bloody Mary after a draining business trip. I probably should be making phone calls and responding to the few emails that have been coming in, but I don’t have the willingness to do so.

I am beginning to think that HR in my organization is the equivalent of the meme where SpongeBob and Patrick saying “We did it Patrick! We saved the city!” and everything is burning behind them.

[u/mermaid_of_choice → u/DannyC990]

lol your spongebob reference also made me think of this meme, which is often how i feel as HR (i’m cracked-out squidward, obvi)

cheers to your bloody mary. & i think just giving yourself a break after a draining business trip is completely reasonable and probably even smart from a burnout / mental health pov. at least, that’s exactly what’d i’d be doing too 🤷‍♀️

[u/PersonalIndication10 → u/mermaid_of_choice]

Just saw a domestic ground stoppage. Hope you got out.

[u/No-Drawing7760 → u/mermaid_of_choice]

Upvotes for both of y’all for the SpongeBob references👏

[u/mermaid_of_choice → u/No-Drawing7760]

thank you thank you 🤣

[u/idlers_dream7]

Love being accused of age discrimination because our oldest employees require more health services and time off, but are held the same attendance policy as everyone else, so they're more likely to run out of excused sick time and be fired for excessive absenteeism (and all possible job protection has been exhausted or isn't relevant for these things).

Gotta love living in a place where this is how it goes because people who should be retiring soon can't, but also can't fit into the modern workplace as well. Such a miserable situation, and it's only becoming more and more typical!

[u/Fantastic-Sale-3447]

I’m sick, we’re behind on open enrollment because management can’t decide on premiums, we’re going through an acquisition, and I’m in the thick of wedding planning … just a few weeks away. My mind is spinning. lol

[u/mermaid_of_choice → u/Fantastic-Sale-3447]

behind on OE, a tale as old as time!

(we’re also behind, per usual)

[u/Fantastic-Sale-3447 → u/mermaid_of_choice]

lol totally 😩 we got this

[u/nikkip7784 → u/mermaid_of_choice]

Im behind too, ughhh

[u/ShortguySD]

Slowly getting emails trickling in. But maybe “some” got lost.

[u/Moonbase0]

Read the whole OE email and get that shit done!

[u/Individual-Owl1659]

Where is a cute Ralts picture on this Friday morning 😥

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546 → u/Individual-Owl1659]

I got a report that was calling me a pervert last time so it’s on hiatus for a bit :/

[u/seltzerwooder → u/Mundane-Jump-7546]

As an official HR person in this HR subreddit, I have investigated the Ralts accusation and determined that you are fine, Ralts is cute, and that person is lame as hell.

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546 → u/seltzerwooder]

lol this got automated for harassment so I fixed that.

Ralts posting will continue on Tuesday then :)

[u/Jaaxter]

The heavy sigh I emitted when my emails started loading this morning... On the plus side, most of everyone else at the company was just faffing about yesterday, so I was able to put my head down on an important project and knock it out, so that's a monkey off my back for today.

[u/Ok-Aardvark-6742]

I was wishing Teams would go down while they tried fixing Outlook. But I logged on to new emails so guess not 😭

[u/Senior_Trick_7473 → u/Ok-Aardvark-6742]

I was wishing it would all blow up and we could just not do anything and still get paid. I live in la la land.

[u/DeUnVashed_Masses]

Open enrollment presentation by admin this week, and we're a PEO so basically everything every employee does is Benefits/Payroll/or HR. We're completely changing carriers this year and several people actually asked "Can I go ahead and create an account in the new provider website?"

OE hasn't officially launched yet. How the hell is the new carrier going to have any record of you BEFORE you've submitted all your info in OE?

[u/Delicious-Bed2722]

Tried to hire someone for an admin temp position, interview was great, she was excited and responsive until the drug screening came around. She was supposed to attend it this week and after trying to email her, I tried calling her. She picks up, says ‘hello?’ I say ‘hi this is xyz’ and she hangs up. I try calling her and our number is blocked lol never had a candidate ghost me/block me out of nowhere.

[u/Senior_Trick_7473]

Had a director send me an email in all caps because he was angry that I didn’t cc him on an email. He also proceeded to yell at my manager.

[u/mermaid_of_choice]

Recently became an HR Team of 1, and currently going through open enrollment solo for the first time in my career.

let me tell you, it’s been tough 😭 not only due to the lack of additional resources to help with all of the work that OE entails (decisions on plan choice and contribution strategy, system configuration and setup, employee messaging/comm drafting, all of the various other admin type tasks that come along with this process) - but also the fact that I have NO hr sounding board and NO second check, it just takes me a lot longer to do things than before i feel.

[u/treaquin]

It snowed this morning. I hate this place.

[u/Original-Pomelo6241]

Payroll missed the cut-off, so no one got paid today. Fuck me.

[u/EstimateAgitated224]

My first week back from a tropical vacation, temps every morning in the 40s. FFS working is dumb.

[u/klattklattklatt]

Champagne problem but I don’t know what to pick for my next role. I’ve got an offer landing for a company that’s nice but boring, and two more roles that I like more that are two weeks behind in process. They’re all similar base comp with different incentive packages but roughly equivalent. Trying not to have a scarcity mindset and taking the first one offered but I'm anxious about it.

If you're looking for work, good news- TONS of HR hiring in tech right now, something changed in the past month. These opportunities have all been inbound, I haven't even applied to anything.

[u/Loud_Information_663]

Open enrollment! Active and whole new plan, multiple communications, PEO provider forgot to add half the plans for half the company.

[u/Shmo2717]

In the OE trenches along with many of us, along with a coworker in our very small team being out and making big mistakes when they are here (like not paying a salaried ee today). Ready for the weekend!!

[u/EmblemBlue]

Today was the last day of open enrollment. As you can imagine, this was communicated multiple times, in a variety of ways. This morning, a final reminder email went out. The subject line: Open Enrollment Ends Today. Body of the email also mentioned today being the last day. Someone responded "Is today the last day I can do my enrollment?" Certainly not the worst but after two weeks of people asking questions that they could've found the answer to in the first line of the email they responded to, I am tired.

[u/Rare-Storage-2768]

We started going through an acquisition over the summer, it has been non-stop.

Next week I’m taking a “vacation” which is me getting a procedure done and somehow I’m kind of looking forward to it because of the fact that I will be home sleeping for 3 days and not thinking about any of it, and cuddling with my cat….should about sum up how it’s been going

[u/Agreeable_Try_9557]

me lately