No they are not. Often enough they really aren’t the companies friend either.
It seems like it mostly exists as an unwritten agreement to give make work jobs to Unpleasant Women with degrees that aren’t all that useful or are the generic low effort degrees you can get while sleeping and partying your way through college.
By the time I entered the workforce the world Pre-HR was mostly long gone.
I worked in all of one place that didn’t have an HR department. Well technically we did. But it was staffed completely by old guys who aged out of being physically capable of the field work. But the owner wanted to justify keeping them on till they could properly retire and start drawing Social Security. Rather than dump them into the shithole of retail.
To that end they mostly did Janitorial stuff and occasionally would do employee appreciation stuff and make everyone food. Only real HR adjacent things they did in the entire time I was there was tell people to tone down hazing the new guys after some particularly mean-spirited pranks. And conduct a handful of interviews and knowledge tests for new employees when the managers were too busy to handle it.
There do still exist a few largish companies, today, that have small “HR departments” that basically handle a few select companywide personnel functions - 401K configurations and such.
Former HR manager here and I support this approach 100%!
Lots of times the c-suite will tell HR to ignore an issue b/c all they care about are profits (ie: their bonuses) and/or the offender is their special friend or even one of the execs!
Yes, this. As an addendum, request the report to osha be anonymous when you talk to them. Even if you try to with burner phone, etc., it's pretty easy to tell who filed it. Osha will do their best to honor the request about 95% of the time.
I had posted Mindsets video in a different posting as a response. this deserves a post all to itself. asmongold has a good video though legal mindsets video is the better way to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg
I had posted Mindsets video in a different posting as a response. this deserves a post all to itself. asmongold has a good video though legatl mindsets video is the better way to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg
In many cases HR are the extremists.
And they will fire you for reporting the extremists
HR is not your friend
No they are not. Often enough they really aren’t the companies friend either.
It seems like it mostly exists as an unwritten agreement to give make work jobs to Unpleasant Women with degrees that aren’t all that useful or are the generic low effort degrees you can get while sleeping and partying your way through college.
That's why it's Human Resources, not human relations. They're 100% for the company, not for workers
Y'all remember when there was no HR department at all?
u/#pepedetective
Pepe Farms Remembers...
By the time I entered the workforce the world Pre-HR was mostly long gone.
I worked in all of one place that didn’t have an HR department. Well technically we did. But it was staffed completely by old guys who aged out of being physically capable of the field work. But the owner wanted to justify keeping them on till they could properly retire and start drawing Social Security. Rather than dump them into the shithole of retail.
To that end they mostly did Janitorial stuff and occasionally would do employee appreciation stuff and make everyone food. Only real HR adjacent things they did in the entire time I was there was tell people to tone down hazing the new guys after some particularly mean-spirited pranks. And conduct a handful of interviews and knowledge tests for new employees when the managers were too busy to handle it.
It was a rather drama free workplace overall.
u/#TaQo, please report to Personnel at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your cooperation......SECURITY!!!
There do still exist a few largish companies, today, that have small “HR departments” that basically handle a few select companywide personnel functions - 401K configurations and such.
Former HR manager here and I support this approach 100%!
Lots of times the c-suite will tell HR to ignore an issue b/c all they care about are profits (ie: their bonuses) and/or the offender is their special friend or even one of the execs!
Yes, this. As an addendum, request the report to osha be anonymous when you talk to them. Even if you try to with burner phone, etc., it's pretty easy to tell who filed it. Osha will do their best to honor the request about 95% of the time.
Careful, OSHA was also used to coerce people into getting the deadly jab or lose their job
Report anonymously here - https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint
I had posted Mindsets video in a different posting as a response. this deserves a post all to itself. asmongold has a good video though legal mindsets video is the better way to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg
I had posted Mindsets video in a different posting as a response. this deserves a post all to itself. asmongold has a good video though legatl mindsets video is the better way to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg
This is the way. u/Rooks