Posted on 04/01/2022 10:11:40 AM PDT by CathyWhite
Dear business owners and CEO's:
As a headhunter, I've been dealing with HR for 25 years, and I implore you to fire them now! All of them! Ninety-nine percent of them are liberal, woke, CRT-pushing pukes who prioritize personal pronouns over production and profit.
I see them stalking social media to ensure that resumes of 'undesirables' are never seem by hiring managers. These elitist group-thinkers have an agenda, and it's not yours!
The CEO of a Fortune 100 company told me last week that he's "scared to death" of his VPHR. Sound familiar? They're your enemy, not your friend; a liability, not an asset. You've already outsourced your payroll, benefits, and recruiting - so what do you need HR for anyway? Do the cost/benefit analysis and see for yourself. Defund your expensive Applicant Tracking System, the infamous 'black hole'. Defund your worthless money-sucking HRIS system.
HR gets their marching orders from the national HR organizations like SHRM and NHRS, and your company is probably funding them! Check out the websites of these organizations and see their agenda for yourself. Stop sending your people to HR conferences where they are encouraged to hate you.
Stop the nonsense! Show some guts! You know that HR is a magnet for anti-American, anti-white, anti-straight wokeness. Please, for the sake of your employees, your company, and your country: FIRE THEM! ALL OF THEM!
DEFUND HUMAN RESOURES!
Yeah, well I agree.
Being steadfast and true to your convictions is certainly an admirable trait and very much lacking in Western society today, and along with the courage to pronounce them openly in politically correct world.
However, there is indeed a price to pay for it. And that’s why I say people who do so on social media are idiots. Either you accept the consequences of putting your life, opinions and associations online for the world to see, or you don’t.
Personally, I don’t give a ring-tailed red-rat’s rear-end what the world at large thinks about me and feel no need to share my daily activities and associations with complete strangers on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc. But if I did, I would be prepared to face the backlash from the intolerant and fascist leftists, and so should you/they.
To wit, Kevin Sorbo and James Woods are conservative actors that have not hid their opinions and demonstrated the courage of their convictions online and paid a heavy price, but they don’t cry about it. Rather they continue to push forward.
Depends on the company. Our HR is great. Run by a female air force vet. Our company run by Naval Academy grads. They like hiring vets (like me). Not woke at all. They even fired a black manager a few months ago. No lawsuits. We’re in Massachusetts too. But we’re an engineering heavy chemical business. No room for nonsense. We either ship product or go out of business. We have no “diversity” awareness training or any bullshit like that. I guess I’m lucky.
“I like to think it’s never too late:)”
I do too! I don’t like to sound pessimistic but it’s awfully hard in todays world.
Sure, they can do some wacky things. So does Finance.
And maybe early in a career, an employee can see HR as dead weight. That sentiment usually carries...
...until you have to lead a team of division. Then, you'll find that really great HR reps are worth their weight in gold. Because they have Jedi-like skills when it comes to unscrambling a terrible employee omelette involving harassment, illegal activity, or downright creepy behavior.
Yes, it'd be wonderful to simply fire Bob who slobbers all over the admins, or Mary who harasses fellow women more than Bob. But this is America in 2022. Some employees are lawyered-up cretins, weaponized felons-in-training, substance abusers, or like Hunter and all of the above. HR is well-equipped to navigate this mine field without the firm or manager getting sued or dragged through the press.
Your mileage may vary.
Yes, we've been discussing this a lot lately (from the same side of things). Over the years, I have a growing appreciation of my HR department who has to navigate all the minefields to keep the company (and its managers) out of the courtroom as much as possible while at the same time making sure everybody in the workplace is treated as fairly as possible.
During Covid, they have had to deal with all sorts of nonsense. Whenever we have an employee test positive, it is up to HR to identify all employees and clients that employee was in contact with and notify them accordingly. It's a major pain in the neck. Then you have a certain subset of employees (usually lower level) who test constantly even though they are not sick at all, in the apparent hopes that a false positive will get them a week off from work with pay. Fortunately most of our employees are now setup to work remotely but we still have many who are required to be onsite due to the nature of their jobs (warehouse, field service, etc.). Losing perfectly healthy people for a week on account of a "positive" test result from some unreliable test kit is especially grating to me.
The unlawful federal mandates on vaccinations (later overturned in large part by Supreme Court) was a real challenge for our HR department. As we are a federal contractor, we had to show compliance. However, HR worked hard behind the scenes to ensure that no key employees were lost over that nonsense. Word quietly went out to at risk employees (those who did not want the shots) that reasonable requests for accommodation would be granted. I ended up being one of those employees receiving a religious exemption and I appreciated that greatly as well as the discretion in how it was handled.
Throughout my career at my present company, HR always worked with me on problem employees, guiding me on how to address and document substandard performance so that when it came time to terminate that employee, we had an iron-clad case that would stand up in court. In many cases like this however, the employee sees the handwriting on the wall and either improves performance or finds another line of work so that we don't even get to the termination phase.
Lastly, some of the biggest criticisms directed at HR departments these days revolves around "woke" culture in the workplace. The HR department at my company navigates that very well. Yes, they have the "optional" woke seminars that are very sparsely attended (but we can say we offered them) and they allow employees to put their "pronoun" of choice on their company profiles. I don't know of a single employee who has anything other than "him" or "her" but we are able to check the box and keep the lunatic left off our backs so we can focus on what we do best - providing excellent products and services to our customers with a decent profit margin.
Yeah, I don’t like the HR term either. It conjures up in my mind an attitude that personnel are nothing more than lumps of ore or piles of just cut lumber.
Yes, exactly. Just another resource.
My apologies for any offense. None was intended.
We ALL tend to paint with a broad brush based upon our emotions and at first blush without consideration of others.
We ALL tend to paint the wall (our fellows) with a spray gun rather than a fine pin point pen and group our compatriots into a corner.
I am guilty as charged.
Again, my apologies. No offense was intended.
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