Looks like poor little hyoobert has been hauled in for one of his regular chats about complaints received about him as a result of ‘the latest incident’
There are some hilarious examples of (generally) US companies who have done this, with predictable outcomes.
While I am certainly not defending all HR teams, and accept many HR professionals can be mediocre (UNLIKE LAWYERS EH FOLKS - THEY'RE ALL FVCKING BRILLIANT), most employees don't know what good HR people are actually doing, because (shock) it's often confidential.
HR are some of my favourite people because they know all the best gossip and are completely fine with sharing if they trust you. How good they are is immaterial to me, as long as people get paid and they deal with wronguns when required.
I always thought it's quite a weird thing to 'want' to get into because no one wants to talk to you about anything and you generally have to behave like a bit of a creep.
Anyone would grew up thinking 'i want to work in HR' I am a bit suspicious of.
Bright graduates come in thinking they will make the workplace, world etc.a better place - they don’t. Spend their time working on new or changing useless policies, training, workshops etc. that most lawyers despise, although the admin staff often like, as it is effectively time off. The worst seem to be those who have started off on the admin side and risen to what they consider to be great power, with no understanding of what drives professionals, we don’t care about their titles and we see through their tactics. Many of them are the worst kind of untrustworthy - falsely nice. With the rafts of ever changing rules and protections relating to a workforce, HR are sadly a necessary evil.
There is a basic flaw in HR departments which flaws them ab initio: they are often entirely staffed by women. Not the demographic heterogeneity you expect from people responsible for implementing … a diversity policy.
A lot of their activity is the useful work of the dung beetle processing necessary admin in the dark. Unfortunately when it comes to anything more complicated they are usually overwhelmed
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the consensus amongst your 3 brain cells?
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They need to be called Payroll
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Oh dear.
Looks like poor little hyoobert has been hauled in for one of his regular chats about complaints received about him as a result of ‘the latest incident’
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There are some hilarious examples of (generally) US companies who have done this, with predictable outcomes.
While I am certainly not defending all HR teams, and accept many HR professionals can be mediocre (UNLIKE LAWYERS EH FOLKS - THEY'RE ALL FVCKING BRILLIANT), most employees don't know what good HR people are actually doing, because (shock) it's often confidential.
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LOL
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no, you need a human to investigate complaints, manage redundancy programmes and other dull but important jobs. pensions. LTIPs , compromise agts etc.
what do you think HG?
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and to act as a buffer between the partners and bad news for the troops
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HR are some of my favourite people because they know all the best gossip and are completely fine with sharing if they trust you. How good they are is immaterial to me, as long as people get paid and they deal with wronguns when required.
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They’re “employment lawyers” with no legal training
They’re “human beings” with no humanity
They’re “business partners” with no business skills
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I always thought it's quite a weird thing to 'want' to get into because no one wants to talk to you about anything and you generally have to behave like a bit of a creep.
Anyone would grew up thinking 'i want to work in HR' I am a bit suspicious of.
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YWTF is the best example of the limited reach of HR folks.
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Hear that fun sponge? You have "limited reach" according to Britain First's rof spokesperson.
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Tbf I wouldn't be able to do my job running a law firm if I had to deal with paperwork for on boarding, off boarding, water boarding etc
So they are incredibly useful in law firms
I appreciate HG has never been near running a law firm in his life
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Bright graduates come in thinking they will make the workplace, world etc.a better place - they don’t.
Spend their time working on new or changing useless policies, training, workshops etc. that most lawyers despise, although the admin staff often like, as it is effectively time off.
The worst seem to be those who have started off on the admin side and risen to what they consider to be great power, with no understanding of what drives professionals, we don’t care about their titles and we see through their tactics.
Many of them are the worst kind of untrustworthy - falsely nice.
With the rafts of ever changing rules and protections relating to a workforce, HR are sadly a necessary evil.
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Large parts of HR are prolly prime candidates to be replaced by AI.
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There is a basic flaw in HR departments which flaws them ab initio: they are often entirely staffed by women. Not the demographic heterogeneity you expect from people responsible for implementing … a diversity policy.
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My experience is that the people who are meant to be good at running redundancy programmes are terrible at it and frequently get the rules wrong.
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A lot of their activity is the useful work of the dung beetle processing necessary admin in the dark. Unfortunately when it comes to anything more complicated they are usually overwhelmed
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The only thing worse than having no hr department is having an hr department.
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It is peculiar how HR is dominated by women
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Not at all.
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No. Who else is going to deal with on boarding, etc? In hospitals payroll tends to be a different department (but similarly useless).
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