To get a job nowadays, you must be anything other than white,
and must be young, gay or trans, and believe the “woke” bullcrap
Just like the conversation all over America, and really the world, about defunding police work, today I want to talk about defunding human resources, recruiting, and compensation. HR oversees a system with rules that they don’t control and might not even agree with but can’t change, and they rarely see people at their best. For the past 40 years, we’ve been pumping money into human resources and we are not getting the ROI we deserve.
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I agree.
HR seems to have become a home for malignant wokesters who abuse their power in the name of their agenda and the agenda is far more important than the reason for the existence of the organization.
Put their accounting duties back under accounting and bring back the old school personnel manager and get rid of the woke nonsense that comes with “HR”.
Years ago, I started a job at a division of a large company (that operated like a startup). I will always remember what the chief executive told me, “I never had an HR problem until I got an HR department.”
Things always change for the worse when they are re-branded.
The Employment Department became Human Resources.
Police officers became law enforcement officers.
Teachers became educators.
Etc.
Side note: I am a retired teacher. I will not call myself an “educator”. I hate that word.
In almost 40 years of professional experience I never saw racism or sexisam except done deliberately by the HR departments!
It’s too late. As you said, after 25 years the HR culture is ingrained in the corporate behemoth. The higher ups like to be able to blame HR for their lack of leadership.
And as far as your mention of stalking social media, my thought is that if you are stupid enough to post things on social media, then you are too stupid to be hired for a job.
And one more thing, cut down on the use of acronyms, since most people don’t speak corporatese.
I work in technical fields (DOD, lasers, optics, electronics) and I’ve always thought it must be tough for an HR person to realize that 98% of the company’s employees are smarter than you. I think some HR types resent that and act out. And most women HR managers won’t hire a woman they think is more attractive than they are. Yeah I said it.
Back in late 1980's I was working HR, (Personnel Dept. back then) for the Boeing Co. in Seattle.
Back then Personnel did all the hiring and all the firing too, at least in the commercial aircraft division.
One supervisor sent one of his employees to us; this guy was in the process of 'transitioning' to a 'woman', (Yeah there were even freaks back then), he wore frilly female clothes and his shrink told him that he should be allowed to use the women's bathrooms.
My Boss met with him and told him hell no, now get back to work.
Not too long later he was sent packing for continued insubordination.
Does anyone think that would happen today?
I liked it better when they were call the Personnel Department rather than Human Resources.
HR makes us undergo FERPA training every 3 years and they are the biggest violator of it. When I refused due my upcoming retirement, they told me I could lose access to certain data necessary to do my job. “Please don’t throw me in the briar patch, brer fox”. Since I provide info for HR, they went quiet on me.
They make us go through Title IX training even though we openly discriminate on the basis of sex.
Karen is very disappointed with this article.
Very.
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.