Posted on 07/08/2020 7:50:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I worked in Human Resources for 15 years. You may think this is the group that processes payroll and plans the company picnic. However, when I entered the profession, it was becoming a differentiating factor. The performance management model at General Electric had become a strategic advantage. The focus of my graduate program was measuring and maximizing human capital.
Saying human capital is a dirty word now. However, at that time, it was viewed as the ability to measure the knowledge, skill, productivity, skill, and potential of individuals in the workforce. Then the goal was to translate that information into plans for hiring, training, promotion, performance management, compensation, and development to meet the current and future needs of the organization.
I was lucky enough to study under professors who were pioneers in trying to build models that could measure these items with the same rigor as finance and marketing. Throughout my career, I took data-driven approaches to all of these functions. I made decisions and recommendations based on models, assessment outcomes, and measurement systems. Where these were lacking, I built them.
At times someone in my human resources department planned the company holiday party. At least when those were allowed. I did frontline union relations and employee relations when my job required it and sometimes had to write policies and procedures. But these were not the core elements of my role in human resources.
In 2015, I was forced to leave the profession due to a personal injury. At that time, even a desk job was out of the question. As I transitioned into other roles, I started noting strange things were happening in my former profession.
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totally ALIEN concept for Ilian Omar, for whom every minimally effective human being must have an equal share of those who produce.
Ironically, my company’s HR department is called “Human Capital” instead of “Human Resources”. It always makes me feel like I should have an asset tag stapled to my ass.
And yes, their primary job nowadays seems to be “diversity and inclusion and sustainability” over actually taking care of employees. The tendrils are everywhere. TVs on the walls constantly showing quotes and pictures pertinent to the current Intersectionality Month (Black History Month, Hispanic History Month, Pride Month, Asian-American History Month, everybody gets a month except white people), stickers and magnets that say “Ally” and such things, etc. Meanwhile our merit increase pay process is a complicated crapshow and our pay system is junk.
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One of the reasons I left my last job in a corporate management role was that I got tired of dealing with the abject idiocy of the HR department. So now I started my own firm and don’t bother with that sh!t ... and my former competitors now hire me because they’ve become bloated, inefficient dinosaurs.
Don’t tell anyone about this trade secret of mine. :-P
And now if you’ll excuse me, I need to reply to an email from my company’s Chief Diversity Officer and produce a convincing reason why I can’t attend yet another of xers “Developing Intersectional Allyship” struggle sessions.
I’m convinced that as with the grain of sand that causes an oyster to produce a pearl, HR departments are an essential part of the corporate life cycle. They’re the irritant that causes the best and brightest people to leave and launch their own little start-up companies.
Question: Why are most large corporations diversity departments VPs black women? Is that diversity?
Nope. It’s good old fashioned tokenism. Put an otherwise unqualified person in a highly visible position. Bonus points if you can get one who’s disabled, transgender, or both.
I left HR @30 years ago... (Intel, others)...it was becoming an arm of the government THEN! I hated what it had become THEN.
I work with HR departments everyday in my line of work.
Couple years back during gay pride month an liberal HR gal asked me why I did not have a pride message on my co’s website.
I told her it was my company and I did not agree with the pride month and left it at that. I’m 58 and can retire today. Don’t need the money.
About 2 weeks later I received an agent of record letter saying I was no longer their agent as it was transferred to another agent. Yep I found out who it was (the other agent who happened to be female) and on their site was all kind of liberal gobbety gook feel good messages.
Amen!
“I would like to congratulate the City of Seattle for violating Title IV of the Civil rights Act of 1964. It is illegal to discriminate in the workplace in regards to hiring, training, promotion, and compensation. A violation would include requiring training based on race for one group and not another. Especially when that training is discriminatory on its face attributing characteristics or motives to individuals based on their skin color.
“I hope an employee in Seattle does more than expose, mock, criticize, or reject it. I hope they take the City of Seattle to court”
Wow.
I really like Stacey Lennox- wicked sense of humor.
Someone told me a story years ago that always stuck with me.
HR people are, at least in my experience, predominantly women and they are the type that are smiling, well dressed, spouting the party line, somewhat prim and proper.
I was told if a bunch of them head out to the bars after work they’d say things amongst themselves that would make a sailor blush. I can’t personally attest to it - it was just a story someone told to me - but it’s one I choose to believe.
I did have one personal experience with an HR type though and she was a conniving b*tch - and demonstrated it on repeated occasions.
I left a place where it already HAD become. That was four years ago come September.
Great Article!
I retired 9 years ago and the ‘hr’ assclowns where I worked had been a pain for a good 9 years prior. Lucky for me I worked at a remote facility away from the main location or I would never have kept my job. :-)
HR now controls all the hiring and firing at work. Guess who they’re reaching out to hire??
Once they infiltrate (diversity and inclusion), their own ilk. I’ve experienced this firsthand.
AMAZIMG how many Indians are in HR now. They only hire their own and fire Americans for not being a good cultural fit.
Seen this at MLB before we were all furloughed. NEW dot Indian Technical Vice-President.
ALL resumes forwarded to the local managers after that were only dot Indians.
So glad I have recently retired. Have watched HR depts. go weenie over the years.
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