I worked with some very lovely people in HR over the years. Yet they, like most "Americans," conducted themselves disgracefully. As you can imagine, I knew many, many people in the HR profession and was connected to many more on LinkedIn. To my knowledge, I am the only one who quit instead of "accommodating" the madness and criminality.
Oh, dear. Well, I have heard similar comments about HR over the years, Fred.
I worked in recruiting, which in many organizations is a part of the HR department. In others, recruiting is its own separate functional area outside of HR. I will say that in my last role, leading all domestic and international recruiting, that the woman to whom I reported "got" that recruiting was its own "animal," related to HR, but different. :) She often had to remind the other senior HR staff about this -- none of whom had ever done recruiting nor did they ever express any wish to. All thought it too hard, too many constituents inside and outside with multiple demands. I enjoyed it, and my last company treated me exceptionally well until they all went around the bend over a respiratory infection, aiding and abetting the greatest crime against humanity after the one -- some say -- that took place in Calgary...
The people who work in HR are not people persons.
I worked with some very lovely people in HR over the years. Yet they, like most "Americans," conducted themselves disgracefully. As you can imagine, I knew many, many people in the HR profession and was connected to many more on LinkedIn. To my knowledge, I am the only one who quit instead of "accommodating" the madness and criminality.
In my entire career I never met (or litigated with) an HR person that I would not have GLADLY put against a wall and shot.
A greater hive of villainy and scum does not exist than any given HR department.
Oh, dear. Well, I have heard similar comments about HR over the years, Fred.
I worked in recruiting, which in many organizations is a part of the HR department. In others, recruiting is its own separate functional area outside of HR. I will say that in my last role, leading all domestic and international recruiting, that the woman to whom I reported "got" that recruiting was its own "animal," related to HR, but different. :) She often had to remind the other senior HR staff about this -- none of whom had ever done recruiting nor did they ever express any wish to. All thought it too hard, too many constituents inside and outside with multiple demands. I enjoyed it, and my last company treated me exceptionally well until they all went around the bend over a respiratory infection, aiding and abetting the greatest crime against humanity after the one -- some say -- that took place in Calgary...
You mean they are tools for the tyrannical among us?
Yes...they were the hammers.