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Human Resource Managers

CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
The more experienced I am, the more I despise Human Resource Managers. They create more strife and turmoil than they every resolve. Everything is a closed door investigation with them. You can take a happy group of employees and management, put a human resource manager in the mix and suddenly its Sarajevo.



Hr Nazis. I hate HR Nazis.

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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yep...good friend has managed a dillons meat market for many years and he transferred to a bigger store before they close the local one...then the company changed all the cutting and packaging centrally and offered him a HR make work job ....he resigned...now another chain has signed on to run a whole new setup here and he may get a chance at manager
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Friend was offered a job. He made a salary counter offer. HR sent a text 3 days later withdrawing the offer.

    Now, assuming the person was reasonable in asking for more money, and negotiating, seems like the HR could have handled it better.
  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998
    edited November -1
    Went to a Business Efficiency Seminar. First thing out of the Speaker's mouth: First off, eliminate the HR department.

    This was maybe Twenty Years ago.
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fear of Lawsuits spawned HR[;)]
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    Part and parcel to the issue is viewing humans as merely resources.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • 44pinshooter44pinshooter Member Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HR people are not even real people, they are a life form whose only goal is to let you know they are the supreme being and that you are nothing and to prove it, they will work 24/7 to f##k with you.

    When Grandpa' Kenny died, on a Thursday evening, I called my boss, said Tom, my grandfather just died. I have power of attorney over his affairs, per Union Rules, I get one day off paid and up to 2 days off unpaid for a grandparent. Told him I would be back in town and at my job the following Wednesday. He said no problem, see you Wednesday.
    Wednesday walk into work, head over to my area and the Union Stewart comes over and says that HR wants to see me. OK.
    Go into HR, the b###h says sign these papers. What papers?
    Your terminated for no call / no show, with extreme prejudice, no unemployment pay.
    WAIT !!!! I called and cleared it with my boss !!!! It is in the day book. My grandfather died. Turned to the steward and said do something. "Nothing I can do, you do not clear your leave with the HR."
    Get Tom, my boss in here............ Tom comes in. Yes, I cleared him. The * wouldn't let it go. I was sent home to bring my grandfathers death certificate, obituary notice and proof of travel. Next day I had my job back.
    Didn't stay there too long after that.
    The guys in the shop called her, "Attila the Kathy"
  • abrickrockabrickrock Member Posts: 39 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 44pinshooter
    "Attila the Kathy"

    At my job we called the HR person Hitler and her assistant little Hitler.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The union called her "the W *"

    I now work at a place with no hr. Everybody gets along well.

    They once had an hr. They refer to those days as the "dark ages"
  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Millennials idea of a plum job = HR manager.
  • 322nd322nd Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When HR calls, I always put myself on guard and responded carefully, as if I were being questioned by a trial attorney.
    I learned over time that HR was not human nor a resource. I also learned over time that HR is an extension of the legal department so take that under consideration before you sign or agree to anything.
  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HR is where women with a degree in nothing of any value go to annoy the productive members of society.
  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I retired the company had a buy-out of $1K per year of service. I took all of my vacation including the day of my anniversary date. The HR "lady" figured a way to screw me out of $1K by dating my retirement a day earlier, so I wouldn't actually have a full year in. I tried to fight her, but didn't win.
    Lo and behold, the engineering dept. called me a few days later wanting me to rewire a machine that was going out of the country! They offered me $60/hour (cash), and the machine was off site at a big machine shop. They let me work at my own pace and keep track of my own time. Needless to say, I made back the $1000 plus a good bit of interest. [8D]
    Then they offered me a ridiculous amount to go to Serbia and install the machine, which I refused.
    A few weeks later, I ran into the HR manager in a store, and told her what I had done, and that I still thought she was a B*&^%$.
  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,252 ******
    edited November -1
    Agree,,[V][V][V]
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    About as necessary as a "political officer" aboard a Soviet submarine.

    The captain of the Red October knew just what to do with his political officer![}:)]
  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On the few jobs I've had, the person making the hiring choice was the person directly supervising the employee. Worked out fairly well.
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I still worked from the city the HR guy was an ex cop that was fired from the police department for bowling on the job and covering up a cop who was injured on the job when sledding down a hill. To me these people are the worst kind.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Dads3040
    HR is where women with a degree in nothing of any value go to annoy the productive members of society.
    Amen.
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