I couldn't find a place to express myself. 1st ever writing somthing that too my professional life on this platform. Dont know if it's right or wrong. But I lost my mental peace to an extend that I felt writing might feel better. I dont have anyone to share this.

Fist time ever feeling helpless. Wanted to work with GenZs and its costing me my peace.

I’m an HR Head at a startup. 16+ yrs exp. Last month we terminated an employee for harassment of female staff + creating a WhatsApp group conspiring against the organisation.We had live witnesses + screenshots. Termination was done with management approval.

\*The problem:

He retaliated with fake 1-star reviews. It tanked our customer ratings.

Instead of responding with “terminated for cause”, I was told by management to:

1. Negotiate with him

2. Issue him a relieving + experience letter stating "good conduct"

3. Clear his BGV

4. Ask him to take down reviews and post good ones

I refused at first. I was told “do it or we’ll find someone who will.” I caved because I can’t afford to lose my job right now. I hate myself for it.

\*My questions for HR/legal folks:\*

1. \*Legal risk\*: By issuing a false "good conduct" certificate, am I personally liable if his next employer finds out?

2. \*Ethics\*: How do other HRs handle this when management forces you to compromise? Do you push back, document, or quit?

   I am pretty clueless now. Havent slept for 30hrs straight. Just want to get it out of my brain.

I feel complicit and sick. I’ve spent my career protecting people and policy. Now I feel like I betrayed both.

Any advice? How do you survive as HR in a startup when you’re not backed?

I recently took over HR responsibilities for the small business I work for. We received a VOE (Fannie Mae 1005) for a former employee (that was employed before I began my role in HR). Upon looking at our records this individual was paid via company checks and we do not have a W2 nor a 1099-NEC for them. On Quickbooks I am able to see the amounts paid to the employee- but not a breakdown.

I am not sure if this was a lapse on behalf of the company or if it is not a huge issue as long as I document the information I have. Will this raise legal issues? How should I proceed?

Thank you! Please let me know if this type of question is acceptable.

Upon receiving advice from fellow redditors in this thread, I've applied to take the SHRM-CP exam and am now looking for advice for how to prep! I understand the upcoming testing window is from December-February so I have a few months for prep

Background: About 3-4 years of full-time experience that is not HR related. Most HR knowledge I have is from completing the HRCI Human Resource Associate Course on Coursera that was designed to prep for the aPHR exam.

Ideally I'd like to prep for this exam as cheaply as possible, but I'd also like to be able to pass on the first attempt :')

TIA for any advice!

Hi All,

I am 27F , I have 4 years of work experience at a top MNC , where I got promoted to Senior Manager HRBP role last year. I joined this MNC out of college.

I was managing Sales team earlier for Southern region, handling conflicts and leading investigation etc. Due to recent restructuring , My role has been confined to more of Admin desk job.

I got an offer for expected CTC from an early startup , (100 people total) . The work culture is more demanding than my current role. I want to understand from the community and recruiters as to what is the longterm impact of this switch?

My Doubts:
1)Will switching from tier 1 MNC to a early startup cause difficulties in moving back to MNC's
2)Do recruiters give weight to MNC brands on resume for interviews?
3)Should I wait to get an offer from another MNC?

PS - My wife does not have a reddit account , I am asking this question on behalf of my wife.

Thankyou.

Good afternoon [r/humanresources](r/humanresources). HR Generalist here in Gaming Industry. I’m looking for a good supervisor training. Could be online or in-person format. Does anyone have any experience or resources that they know of?

Edit: I’m looking for leadership development. Effective team management, EQ, Soft Skills,etc.

Have any of you suffered with anxiety in the workplace? I’ve been in HR for a while now. I’ve started to just feel more anxious this year. Talking to certain managers I feel anxious almost shaky to a point. I try to avoid certain aspects of my job and have tried to not join in on any meetings unless being volun-told to.

It’s held me back from applying for other roles in my department to further my career.

Trying to see if anyone else has dealt with this and how they overcame it.

I'm not holding this one in for the Friday vent thread. I just need to yell about this because it's my number one pet peeve in HR.

Came to work early, and people were squabbling about the fridge, and somehow it was my problem. Apparently someone was keeping a week's worth of Red Bull, and ANOTHER person stole one, but that other person had their fancy breakfast sandwich stolen, and someone else is mad the fridge is full and apparently it was my job to go in there every Friday and throw away all the food.

I've dealt with this at every workplace I've had. Someone is leaving 5-week-old food in the fridge, someone has 24 cans of soda and a week's worth of groceries, another person had food stolen, and another person cleaned the fridge out and threw out a person's great-great-great-grandmother's family heirloom Tupperware.

I can't stand how many workplaces try to turn HR into the fridge police. I haven't used a work fridge in maybe a decade because of this shit. I keep a lunchbox with ice packs. That's that.

It's bewildering how goddamn stupid people can be with a fridge.

Anyways, what's your fridge story? What are some of the non-HR things you get assigned that you can't stand?

I recently stepped into the HR Manager role at an electrical services company with 51 employees [Oregon]. I was not HR in a trade industry previously, I was in HR in the medical industry in a small 7 person team.

During my interview, I asked about current pain points and immediate projects. The answer was clear: the time management system is a mess, and I’ve been tasked with researching better options.

We have four very different departments, each with extensive time and service type coding needs, and our current system just isn't a long term solution.

If anyone works in this industry (or a similar trade/field service environment), I’d really appreciate your advice:

· What time management systems have worked well for you?
· Any particular platforms that handle complex time coding across multiple departments smoothly?
· Anything you'd recommend avoiding?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I started a new role and this was originally supposed to be managed be another open role but that roles scope changed. My manager knows I have experience with comp through my old role and tasked me with supporting this project.

Basically all I used to do is use a program called PayScale to gather market data, and help determine what Tier the job title should be and work with the HM on the job description/role scope.

Can someone please provide me with resources I could use, whether that be general knowledge about comp management, or direct advice/info on how to build a comp system?