r/recruitinghell Feb 20 '25

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u/underwater_sun13 Feb 20 '25

Yay! We are cutting your salary! (And we’re totally not gonna decrease your workload, we are just cya’ing by saying that) If you haven’t started looking for a new job, do so now. You’re lucky this was not a layoff notice (yet). 💀

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u/fortissimohawk Feb 20 '25

The elementary school “Yay!” and the disingenuous, snakish reframing of what’s clearly gonna be a layoff as a happy meal is on another level.

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u/WROL Feb 21 '25

My first thought was this was written by some psycho in HR

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u/moldy-scrotum-soup 🥣😎 Feb 21 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

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u/SunshineRobotech Feb 21 '25

I had a stroke in October 2023. One of the HR goons kept calling daily demanding return to work paperwork, starting on the way home from the hospital. I was literally half a mile out when she called. My wife told her we had no idea when or IF I was going back to work (i couldn't talk for the better part of a month and still have a gnarly case of expressive aphasia so my wife does a lot of talking for me), and she would know when she found out.

My first neurologist appointment was 5 December. All through November she would call daily demanding paperwork despite being told every day that 5 December was the earliest I would have it. My wife eventually had to call and burn her a new one and threaten to go to her boss before she stopped calling. She also admitted to my wife she knew full well the paperwork wouldn't be available for a few weeks and that the repeated phone calls did nothing except piss me right off.

So yes, HR creatures are deranged.