HR, the bane of the workplace.This is no joke.
Everywhere I have every worked, the very worst people end up in HR.
Known as the Dean of Academic Affairs at a university.
Remember the days before Human Resources?
Back then it was the Personnel Dept.
How is it that idiocy and spitefulness become prerequisites once the name was changed? Now I’ll admit that dealing with Personnel was not always a day at the beach, but dealing with HR was impossible.
All due respect, I’ll have to take exception to that. My experience with HR people has always been good, they have actually helped me out a lot over the years, especially with insurance issues.
Not only that, but my daughter is an HR manager for a large Corp. She has told me some stories. Of course, I don’t know everything she does, and she has hired and fired people. Not my kind of job.She IS (and I say this with TOTAL bias) one of the nicest people I know🙂.
The HR dept had a complete turnover about 3 years ago. There were layoffs going on and I think they decided to bail when they could get other jobs. The new people I did not know.
Months later I am in a room at break time and using my phone. No one else in the room when this crazy person from HR comes in and says loudly “You are not suppose to be here!”
The room I was in? It was the conference room.....
Mind you I have been there at the company for 15 years at the time. She said she has told me before and I replied back I had never talked to you before. She left and I ran into a person that had at one time worked in that dept and she said I should report her to the manager but I said I did not want to make a big deal of it.
I went back to my office and 3 people said this women had called one of them and complained about me which shocked them as I am known for being as nice as can be. I work in the Help Desk so you have to be polite.
All three said they had run ins with the crazy lady and one of them says she always complains to him about other people.
The good news is that dept is being replaced with a 3rd party company so she will lose her job soon.
As an HR guy of 30 years, now forcibly retired for not being woke enough to suit the new regime, I can say that, some of the people who cared most about employees were my HR team. The reason I’m no longer there is because I wouldn’t let them or myself become “the very worst people”. If not for those people in my organization, the company would have run roughshod over the employees and used them up, discarding them once they were played out. My team stood in the breach.
I’m sorry for your experience, but I have found that it’s more about the character of the people you put in HR, than it is about HR being a breeding ground for ignorance and bad behavior.
Some of us actually do care and do sacrifice for the good of our people. please don’t paint us all with the same broad brush.