Waking Up To Reality

Splendid Isolatrion ^ | 22 May 2026 | Kim Dutiot

[Rummyfan]

Finally, someone has seen the light:

Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they “created problems that didn’t exist”, and “those problems disappeared when I let them go”.

Welcome to the party, pal.

Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to “start-up mode”.

The 32-year-old added that HR professionals were more suited to “peacetime” conditions at larger companies rather than a start-up environment focused on rapid growth and efficiency.

In his seminal work, Up The Organization, the late Robert Townsend had a small chapter as part of his plan to make companies more successful: “Fire the entire HR department.” (I should point out that his incendiary book — which was and still is one of the best management books ever written — was published back in 1971. One can only wonder what he’d think of today’s HR.) Also, for those who don’t remember, Townsend was responsible for taking #2 car rental firm Avis to #1, so he knew what he was talking about.

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[Rummyfan]

[Alberta's Child]

Was this the CEO who fired the HR department after he submitted an earlier version his own resume under a fake name and didn’t even get called for an interview? LOL.

[ComputerGuy]

I was looking to hire a lab tech at an NGO I worked at.
I told HR to send me all the resumes they received.
I told them they weren’t weren’t the ones to determine if a candidate was qualified or not, since none of them were chemists.
HR didn’t take it well.

[ealgeone]

At the former company my boss used to get his own candidates for interviews. We usually hired a quality person. That was way back.

Fast forward to the 2010s....HR, staffed by mostly liberal white women and blacks, began to do the hiring.

The quality dropped considerably.

Interviews were conducted over the phone. This allowed a reasonably intelligent person to "interview". yet the person who actually showed up was quite different.

The emphasis on "diversity", that is not hiring whites period, was evident.

HR also was in charge of the DIE program.

So glad to be out of that mess.

[No.6]

There is almost certainly a need for people to help onboard and transition out people and help manage benefits etc. Its good to be fair and leaders can’t keep up with those tasks and actually get stuff done.

Nobody needs a gadfly department, though.

[drwoof]

Agreed. With all the gov. regs and BS legislation out there, some specialized help is needed these days. Things in HR can, however and at the same time, get *quite* out of hand... Depends upon the people, unsurprisingly.

One of the most awkward moments I ever had as an executive was created by the organization’s HR Director. Our CEO had us all working on subjects relating to ‘change’ in our culture and community. That alone was a bit overdone. When he asked us to brainstorm a theme for the management meeting in which we were all to share what we’d found/concluded, the HR chick was right on it. After a few minutes of group prattle, she announces “I’ve got it! The theme should be snakes! Because snakes shed their skins and change!” She was serious. The room went dead silent.

[TomEd]

SJWs Always Lie (Vox Day)

p. 232
How can you identify a moderate? He is the man who only shoots at his own side and never at the enemy.

p. 241
Strategy 1: Build alternative institutions
The long, slow, and insidious process of invading an institution, then gradually taking it over before steering it to serve one’s own ends is not the sort of thing that comes naturally to the normal, honest individual. The amount of deception involved, combined with the considerable patience required, means that simply recreating the SJWs’ long Gramscian march through the institutions of the West is not a viable solution. A better strategy, and one that is far more in line with our strengths, is building alternative institutions that will compete with the SJW-infested ones.

https://www.docdroid.net/2CAjIrK/sjws-always-lie-vox-day-2015.pdf

[Bon of Babble]

Let’s hope this starts a trend, DEI needs to DIE.

The school district I worked for had a massive, useless, inefficient HR department that made sure Whites were the last hired. They also created high-salaried positions for themselves and their cronies far away from the schools are were able to lord over the rest of us with useless policies, out of classroom professional developments and stupid rules.

Their excuse for their positions was to make sure the school district complied with the many and complicated federal regulations (which is true) - but they had to take many junkets to Hawaii and the Bahamas to do this.