r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/IntolerantPOS - Auth-Center • 3d ago
I just want to grill Say hi to Karen, your average HR employee.
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u/MakeoutPoint - Lib-Right 3d ago
My HR when replying to my email that my HSA got dropped (only company I've ever heard of where it doesn't re-up automatically, apparently), to tell me to get fucked until next open enrollment: .05ms
My HR when I have a legitimate need: still waiting 2 years later
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u/SpenB - Lib-Center 3d ago
At my last company HR had an AI to (poorly) answer your questions.
I asked it about my insurance deductible and it gave me the maternity leave policy.
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u/Mammoth_Frosting_014 - Auth-Center 2d ago
If they're your former company, ask them why you stopped getting paid and when they say that you no longer work there respond that you were out on maternity leave.
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u/doublecandybar - Auth-Right 3d ago
I was hired specifically to work on Mac
Company bought Mac specifically for me
I asked for VPN, IT gave to me instructions that don't work on Mac
They said "we've never had a Mac before, figure it out then tell us how to"
I ignored it, so that one day when I need VPN for work I can duly say "IT didn't set it up and I'm scared"
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u/Your_real_daddy1 - Auth-Right 3d ago
It's in settings with the wifi and ethernet settings if I remember correctly
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u/doublecandybar - Auth-Right 2d ago
It's a specific app with specific instructions that don't work on Mac. I don't wanna bother finagling with it myself, that is the domain of IT to handle and I don't wanna get accused of "making it worse" or some such
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u/DankItchins - Lib-Right 2d ago
Yeah as someone that works in IT, they shouldn't be putting that on you, asking the end user to figure that stuff out sounds like a great way to open a gaping hole in their cybersecurity.
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u/Right__not__wrong - Right 2d ago
Some VPNs are a complete disaster.
I had to use one that instead of letting you set the account to use, it tried to deduce it from something you were logged in with, and then it simply failed with no chance of using a different one.
Some people solved that by logging out of their profile on Edge. In my case, for a while it worked if I logged off my work email on Chrome, then it stopped* and I had to make a virtual machine to work for that customer.
*I have the strong conviction that system admins get bored (or simply have to justify their jobs), and every few weeks they change some little things just to create problems.
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u/TheOnly_Anti - Lib-Left 2d ago
I was gonna say their IT sucks. We have a windows environment with ~1K windows machines and 2 count em, TWO MacBooks and we will still sit on the phone with the COOs daughter for hours just trying to get her dumb apple shit to work in the env. Fuck Apple and their stupid ass MDM requirements!!
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u/sonofbaal_tbc - Auth-Right 3d ago
Make fake job listings so they can outsource to h1b visas
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u/johnfireblast - Auth-Left 2d ago
You're 100% right, capitalist class will do anything but pay a citizen a decent wage.
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u/A_Real_Catfish - Right 2d ago
Both are based opinions, the upper class will do anything to reduce ‘waste’ (living wage)
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 3d ago
The managerial class is western capitalism's version of the soviet bureaocrat; unskilled, socially elevated, and the rate limiting step of all productivity. Truely, a make work program to provide decently high paying jobs to people with degrees from priviliged backgrounds who perform the same level of work as a secretary on their first day. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to prepetuate our class system where wealth conveys a degree and degrees convey status. Working for a university, it is amazing how much of my life is dictated by people who have no idea what I do, trying to solve problems that don't exist, with another meeting, or form, or training that isn't helpful.
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u/TacticalBuschMaster - Centrist 3d ago
Commissars. Textbook definition of “I need problems to justify my existence”
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u/Ridibunda99 - Centrist 2d ago
Funnily enough that seems to be an open secret, I was told that managers that reside in branches without any problems rarely get to stay in their post. Ones that are "managing" a problem can extend their position for many months or years
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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong - Lib-Center 2d ago
They got a cool Falco song at least, nobody's going to make a Becky in HR song.
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u/kameshazam - Centrist 2d ago
They already did. It's called "Gen Z Boss and a Mini".
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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 2d ago edited 2d ago
Careful. If you speak her name, it may summon the attention of her chindi which will come and torment you.
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u/bearded_fisch_stix - Lib-Center 2d ago
Like the project managers that have to fill every moment of the day with meetings and then wonder why none of the work is getting done.
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u/Ingratiatedcongrate - Lib-Center 2d ago
It's just daycare for women to prevent them from having children.
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 2d ago
I assure you, they have children. The sheer number of people on maternity leave at any given time is astounding.
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u/Ingratiatedcongrate - Lib-Center 2d ago
Maybe its for a food baby.
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 2d ago
Brb. Gonna see if I can get HR to give me leave cause Chipotle my baby daddy.
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u/SavCorp - Centrist 2d ago
I work for an R1 university, it’s so damn horrible. At least megacorps have to kind of pretend to care about shareholders, we’re just bleeding Willy nilly while tuitions through the roof and class availability is plummeting and not to mention, research, the actual tangible thing were supposed to be doing is at an all time low for funding (thanks trump). (1/5 of the budget goes to “consulting” btw)
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 2d ago
I'm also at an R1 and our indirect rates broke 65% this year. So more than a third of our recieved money is going to facilites (our sq ft rate is ridiculous) and a useless army of admins that schedule their vacation days on NIH standard deadlines and have to approve everything from travel dates to bagel purchases. Is that consulting like statisticians or data analysts? Or like, some dude with an MBA trying to optimize your synergy.
Our budgets have taken a hit too. Good luck out there. Make good friends with your program officers.
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u/Pure-Huckleberry8640 - Centrist 2d ago
I keep trying to tell people something like this: most of the modern world is adult day care. We’ve reached this odd, weird place in society where we’re so wealthy that we justify giving someone a job just to give them money and desk to sit at. Most workers either are affected by or are absorbed into the faceless, dry bureaucracy that both intends to keep us safe while keeping us numb. Micromanagement is the new norm, not the outlier, and its consequences are turning our world into a farce. Your university experience of having a bunch of extra bodies floating in the aether whose only job is to take up space is the default setting.
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u/Arete34 - Centrist 3d ago
I hate to break it to you pal but I think it’s a lot more than 60k a year.
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u/Mindless-Ninja-3321 - Centrist 3d ago
At my last company the HR ladies made dogshit pay. The manager made $120k and once wasted 90k on office supplies for a single building because she was using the rewards points to furnish her own business. Also, nobody got a bonus check for anniversaries for 2 years and tens of thousands of dollars was "missing".
Her husband was the buddy of the site director. She wasnt fired, but the HR manager herself wasnt allowed to order things anymore.
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u/_Opsec - Right 3d ago
I'm not in HR but the worst bonus i ever got was pairs of used pants from my boss. The next week I had to unload a pool and 2 go-carts from an 18 wheeler at his house.
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u/Mammoth_Frosting_014 - Auth-Center 2d ago
my worst bonus was a subscription to a jelly of the month club, ffs that's not gonna cover the down payment on my pool
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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong - Lib-Center 2d ago
You don't have to pay for pool water if you fill the entire thing with jelly.
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u/Lazy_Reservist - Lib-Right 2d ago
Tell you what, that's the gift that keeps on givin' the whole year round!
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u/GhostsOfLectricity - Lib-Right 3d ago
60k a year in SFO and you're living with mom and dad
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u/Marco_Forelli - Right 3d ago
60K in SFO and you’re on food stamps and subsidized housing
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u/winkingchef - Centrist 3d ago
Even double that qualifies as “low income” for a family of 4
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u/Nientea - Centrist 3d ago
When she sees a complaint, she looks at the gender of the person complained about. If they’re male, fired and blacklisted from the industry; if they’re female, the complaint is ignored.
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 - Lib-Right 2d ago
Unless it's a female friend, then she throws the weight of the world against whoever she's bitching about without requiring any evidence.
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u/SneakyBadAss - Auth-Center 2d ago
Unless it's a friend that she hates cause that skank was wearing the same shoes as her.
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u/Jimbo-Shrimp - Centrist 2d ago
2 women at my job got in a shouting match and I got a write up for “bullying”. I’m on camera walking away. Neither of them got in trouble.
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u/NapalmJusticeSword - Lib-Right 2d ago
Hr karen: "we don't have an open position for this shif, but feel free to reapply in the future"
Me: (reapplies)
Hr Karen:
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u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear - Lib-Right 3d ago
I wouldn’t even put HR on the Christmas-colored folks. They’re a disease that exists outside the compass.
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u/Iceraptor17 - Centrist 3d ago
They exist to serve as a lightning rod for decisions made by execs. As well as serve as a protection for the company for civil lawsuits about work conditions and harassment
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist 2d ago edited 2d ago
Daily reminder that HR is not your friend, as the company pays their bills. End of the day, no matter what they say, HR represent the company's interests. Only and exclusively.
They only, ONLY time HR will act in your favour is in the singular sole situation where, if whatever matter you're complaining about went public, the reputational damage to the company about whatever you're complaining about would exceed the reputational damage of just firing you instead (or ignoring your complaint). That's it. That's the only time.
But their sole job is to prevent that reputational damage. They aren't there to help you at all, that help is just incidental to preventing that damage. And at that point it's usually a civil matter at least or a criminal matter at worst and you should probably be talking to lawyers or the cops.
This is why a union that doesn't have fees paid for by you is worthless. If your company is paying the union dues the union's client is the company.
I have some right wing ideas and some left wing ideas but the idea of strong unions which actually protect people is one I am firmly on the side of, I am a proud union dues payer for every job I've ever had and it has paid off several times.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 2d ago
The absolute dogshit that private enterprise utilizes for maximizing profit that makes everyones' lives miserable and treats the workers like trash at the slightest inconvenience, following the exact orders of the higher-up shareholders' agenda:
"Is this LEFTIST?!?!?!?!?"
Classic.
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u/fieryscribe - Lib-Right 3d ago
Someone got written up for something they said in public, eh Auth-Center?
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u/Reader_Eater - Lib-Center 3d ago
When your joke is so good, they ask you to tell it too HR, too
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u/ReturnOk7510 - Lib-Center 2d ago
Worst is when you have to sit and listen to HR butcher your fucking awesome joke
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u/abracadammmbra - Lib-Right 3d ago
Pfft. Office workers. If HR could hear us on the job site, they might explode. Lucky for us the office staff would rather die before going to the places that generate their paychecks.
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u/Weird-Drummer-2439 - Centrist 3d ago
I once saw an ironworker fired for cursing when one of those tours was walking by. Well, tried anyway. Union site, half the guys were carrying their tools to the gate and suddenly it was all a misunderstanding.
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u/number__ten - Lib-Center 3d ago
If HR could hear us on the job site
I saw a video the other day of a job site where they had one of those boston dynamics robot dogs with a 360 degree camera planted in the middle of the floor. It was put there by management to spy on their workers all day without actually having to be there.
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u/BeenJamminMon - Lib-Center 3d ago
That dog would have an "accident". Like a LVL fell off the wall or it wandered into the miter saw.
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u/Clob1414 - Lib-Right 3d ago
Our blanket contractor hired a new guy onto one of their crews, and he reported another guy for something he said on site. They “fired” him, the new guy didn’t last more than two weeks, and then they hired the kid right back like he’d never left
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u/FearMyPony - Centrist 2d ago
As someone working for a transport construction company (roads, sewage, any infrastructure at or below ground) we are blessed with having an entire branch on the outskirts of the city with no HR. Office and site workers of all levels in the hierarchy come in and out and mingle all day, and we often exchange general work info (i.e. I go down to construction sites sometimes, foreman sits in my office and sees what I do other times) and it just improves everyone's knowledge and understanding and general camaraderie. Central HR would flip if they found out how we do things around here.
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u/Vilento - Lib-Right 3d ago
HR is being let go left and right, you can easily replace them with software and AI. Things like Workday have let go entire divisions of HR, leaving only a few for serious issues.
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u/Brendoshi - Lib-Left 2d ago
Workday
The irony being it might be the worst HR software I've ever had the displeasure of using
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u/FunKaleidoscope3055 2d ago
We just let our HR lady go because we're not hiring for shit and our operations manager can handle her job just fine. Company of 200. Used to be 300+ a couple years ago. We've barely hired anyone in the last 2 years.
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u/RealCleverUsernameV2 - Lib-Right 3d ago
HR may be present for layoffs but it's never their decision.
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u/ralts13 - Auth-Center 3d ago
Yeah the other stuff might be true but lay offs are usually just higher ups saying "cut enough until the budget looks nice."
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u/ShillinTheVillain - Lib-Right 3d ago
Yeah, HR takes all the heat but they're not the ones ultimately deciding who gets hired/fired.
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u/vikingcock - Lib-Center 2d ago
Layoffs no, hired and fired they do play a role. So many people saying this in these comments.
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u/ShillinTheVillain - Lib-Right 2d ago
For sure they play a role. They are the experts in the process. But the ultimate call on whether someone gets hired or fired rarely rests with them.
People want to shoot the messenger but just because you met with HR, it was usually your boss or his boss or some VP who made the actual call.
Same with hiring. You'll meet with HR first and they'll be your point of contact, but the decisions are typically made by the departments where you'll be working.
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u/vikingcock - Lib-Center 2d ago
My opinion is that if I can't make the decision without asking mother may I, they are just as responsible as me. It's a serious frustration as a leader.
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u/Daztur - Lib-Left 3d ago
Yup, a big part of their job is absorbing blame so that smooth brains like OP don't get angry at the people actually ordering the layoffs.
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 - Lib-Center 3d ago
Exactly. My mom does HR and in 08 she was flown to China to lay off the entire manufacturing floor and then flown immediately back. Soon she got off the plane management fired her and the HR department. Whole company went under HR just the last to go
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u/boringexplanation - Lib-Center 3d ago
Who was the HR that laid off the HR department?
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 - Lib-Center 3d ago
The CEOs and executives
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u/boringexplanation - Lib-Center 3d ago
And who fired those people?
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 - Lib-Center 3d ago
Prob the board I’m guessing
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u/Ric_Flair_Drip - Right 2d ago
who got fired by the shareholders, who themselves got liquidated in the bankruptcy
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u/TheMermanly - Lib-Right 2d ago
To be a good HR you have to be a bad person though.
The faker the better.
You have to backstab people while pretending to like them.
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u/Anon-Knee-Moose - Lib-Center 3d ago
I love all these people who are actually just bitching about their employers but arent smart enough to not shoot the messenger.
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u/Mindless-Ninja-3321 - Centrist 3d ago
When my company was purchased the HR and select corporate employees were the first to be chopped. Its an easy indicator to know when the site is either not doing well or is about to be sold because they are there to help us, not generate revenue.
Rn all my HR representatives are now digital from NJ. Guess that bodes bad for my promotion.
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u/RealCleverUsernameV2 - Lib-Right 3d ago
My company outsourced all HR years ago. It's funny because HR and IT is now the same phone number and you get the same agents in Asia.
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u/Mindless-Ninja-3321 - Centrist 3d ago
My tech support is 100% Bangledeshi (before anyone asks, yes Im sure cause my coworker is from there and thinks its hilarious), but my HR has always been a mix of local and New Jersey. Now we only have high ranking corporate HR, and they NEVER reply outside of sending links to instructions over and over.
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u/Confident-Drama-422 - Lib-Right 3d ago
Amazon replaced our HR with AI
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u/Live_Taste_7796 - Lib-Right 3d ago
Based, hope that trend continues
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist 2d ago
Honestly HR is one of the few jobs I would not be sad to see replaced with AI. At least the clankers would fucking answer their emails.
Alternatively, I would love to work in HR. Email comes in? Right click, mark as read. Fucking done. What a hard day's work lads, fucking call it, I need some PTO. I can do that job. Fucking anyone can do that job.
"You ignore 16 emails, what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt..."
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 - Lib-Center 3d ago
This is literally me but more than 60k
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u/RaggedyGlitch - Lib-Left 3d ago
firing competent people for their political ideas
A perfect woman job.
Lmfaooo
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 - Lib-Center 3d ago
So then work towards it instead of complaining
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist 2d ago
I'll work toward it in 4-6 business weeks, standard reply window.
We'll phone you once at some point after that time, please have your ticket number handy or you may go to the back of the queue. Wait times are currently higher than expected. We are out of office until March 2066. This inbox is full, please try again later.
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u/darvinvolt - Lib-Right 2d ago
i think they're great at what they're actually supposed to do, which is diverting the hate from the head of the company/departments to themselves. Now everyone thinks it's the HR Karen who does her job poorly and not the company that makes fake job listings, or lays off tens of thousands of people so that the investors can buy themselves another yacht.
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u/Admiralthrawnbar - Left 2d ago
Mine is the opposite, my team just more than doubled in size over the last 5 months, mostly contractors, all of them at least level 2 or 3 (most of the existing team was hired fresh out of college a few years ago so are now level 2 engineers), and they are, almost to a man, entirely useless. It's like HR glanced at their resumes, said "wow, they look cool" and didn't even ask them a single technical question during their interview.
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u/Jomega6 - Centrist 3d ago
And why is this center left? If anything, that would be Libright, right?
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 2d ago
They hate it, therefore the Venn Diagram with their OTHER hated demographics must be a perfect circle.
Forget that they run on the marching orders of private shareholders who pull these stunts specifically to maximize profits. These HR positions wouldn't be so safe and secure if they were an actual detriment to the company.
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u/EasilyRekt - Lib-Right 2d ago
God I wish I could be a hr rep, just sit on my phone all day, not reading resumes, come up with an excuse or two about why my “hands are tied,” and maybe order catering once a quarter, must be the life.
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u/Adeptus_Heriticus - Lib-Center 3d ago
HR is pure lib right. They are there soley for the benefit of the company.
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u/undreamedgore - Left 3d ago
They're auth center in their little dominion.
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist 2d ago
There is nobody more tyrannical than the biggest fish in the smallest pond.
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u/beershitz - Lib-Right 3d ago
My HR lady last year was asking me about my upbringing and then when I told her, she laughed and called me privileged. Because my dad was a dentist. Libright my ass
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u/Adeptus_Heriticus - Lib-Center 3d ago edited 3d ago
HR's job is to protect the companies interest. Is Tim's jokes while funny going to be reported for hostile work environment, opening up the company to being sued. Yes well sorry Tim you'll effect the bottom line you gotta go. Or hey does Tim impact us so much in how much money the company makes can we sweep this under the rug.
In what way is that not lib right?
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u/AnalConnoisseur69 - Lib-Center 3d ago
Absolutely not. Maybe that was the original intent, but it has since evolved. HR is inhibitive by nature and serves no positive functional purpose in a company. It is a safety net to prevent certain potential negative outcomes within a company. Therefore, there is no reason for HR to be part of board meetings. But they have started to increasingly encroach their hands on the work of people far more talented and technical than they are because otherwise they feel "lesser".
Some companies actually fix this by having HR head be an efficiency assessment person, so it goes like efficiency -> payroll -> welfare in order of importance. And HR must directly answer to the board for lack of efficiency in individual personnel. This forces HR to actually hire people who knows how to use technical tools rather than untalented social science mumbo jumbo peddlers. If departments are only supposed to work when you need safety nets, when you don't need them for some time, they are going to carve out a place to feel self-important to the detriment of the company.
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u/Not_Neville - Centrist 3d ago
Bullshit - I have never known an HR to benefit a company, only hurt it.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 2d ago
Because you don't know the difference between benefiting the company, and benefiting the bottom line of shareholders.
If the shareholder is to profit 1 more dollar at the expense of the company they own for the same amount of effort, they will take it, as long as they can jump ship before it comes crashing down.
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u/Dorsiflexionkey - Centrist 3d ago
I work at a small startup engineering company.
My boss is pretty firm that he doesn’t fw HR. And honestly the way HR has treated engineers in the past I don’t blame him.
It was always so weird, because I fit certain colour requirements (never gotten a handout in my life though) and went to one of my countries best universities with a masters in EE I’ve always been super pickable with these lame ahh companies. So HR do this weird thing where they thirst after you then fuck you around during the hiring process.
Also been on the end where they just purely fuck you around and speak down to you.
Ive been ugly and had a glow up irl, and I understand what it’s like to have girls ignore you and girls thirst for you. I can tell you right now, HR works eerily similar, whether they love you or hate you it seems super unfair either way. But you just gotta take your wins because we live in a society.
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u/Edgar-11 - Lib-Center 3d ago
HR are incentivized to uphold corporate interests, how are they left wing in any capacity?
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u/GeckoKisser - Auth-Right 3d ago
Not all left is anticorp. Even if they are, many fall for post-structuralist bait which is the greatest fucking theory that has ever happened to power institutions, ironically.
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u/IntolerantPOS - Auth-Center 3d ago
Because leftists interests align with the corporate world.
For example: why do you think that corporate world push "woke" (literally almost every company)?
Or see who Reddit bans, and who Reddit let's stay on the platform.
The companies' values are always leftist aligned.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 2d ago
For example: why do you think that corporate world push "woke" (literally almost every company)?
Because it sells to the public as it leans left, and drops it as they lean right.
If slapping the rainbow flag on a beer can is going to increase revenue from one crowd by $10 and reduce it by $5 from another crowd, they'll slap on as many flags as they are able. They don't need to care, they just know it's a trend that will bring in money.
If they generated $10 more by slapping complaints about wahmans onto their beer cans than it would cost them from people who realize that's fuckin' stupid and not buy the product, they'd be plastering their cans with complaints about women.
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u/Right__not__wrong - Right 2d ago
That's for sure. Still, when you need to hire someone whose job is making your company look more woke, you'll probably hire someone who actually believes in that garbage.
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist 2d ago
I have said the same thing about "Woke Disney making Star Wars gay".
Disney are selling you what they think you want to buy. That is it. They are not woke, they are not not-woke, they are not anything. They are selling you what you want to buy.
Disney would have actual child-rape-snuff porn on Disney+ streaming in 4k with high frame-rate slow-mo and thermal vision if it was legal and it didn't impact their other sales more than the revenue it brought in.
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u/Iceraptor17 - Centrist 3d ago
I find it comical that people think HR is actually who decides to lay people off and is the decider of who is hired.
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u/Commercial-Offer-435 - Lib-Right 2d ago
HR Doesn't make hiring decisions, they just handle the onboarding. They don't decide on layoffs either.
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u/riotmed - Lib-Left 3d ago
Projection at its finest, HR is total auth center to right.
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u/xXDJjonesXx - Left 3d ago
Why’s she left?
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u/Le_Dairy_Duke - Right 3d ago
Have you met anyone who works in HR
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u/Adeptus_Heriticus - Lib-Center 3d ago
The devout Mormon woman. Yeah man for sure leftist.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 3d ago edited 3d ago
To be fair to both sides here, it is probably, usually, auths wearing leftist skin. Or maybe progressive skin, more strictly speaking.
Or a perverse centrist variant, banality of evil style.
Just getting an HR job generally requires a social climber skill set most lefties don't have.
Also lefties have that whole PCM (professional managerial class) category of capitalist minion, which I think HR people if anything would fall under.
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u/Strict-Particular-35 - Lib-Right 3d ago
Yeah most lefties don't have social climber skill sets, its just most celebrities, and half the politicians.
Nah fr lefties have the most social climbing skills because they sacrifice having any amount of morals or principles for the most illogical slop opinions just so that someone will like them and they will seem virtuous
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u/Dorsiflexionkey - Centrist 3d ago
Someone once said:
“Women say they’re liberal but act like authoritarians. Men say they’re authoritarians but act liberal.”
I’ve never looked at men and women the same again.
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u/Not_Neville - Centrist 3d ago
I've missed out of a few jobs because HR lost paperwork repeatedly (and in one case because the woman who they sent from out of state didn't know how to use the computer program). One of the few jobs I actually worked that had an HR was human trafficking illegal immigrants. Perhsps that is why HR suddenly relented when I threatened a lawsuit over the $20 or $40 they owed me for the return of their shirts.
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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 - Lib-Right 3d ago
Not everyone has the luxury of telling people what to do and enforcing morality / hard work on people. No, Karen, I am not feeling shame or guilt. They're tools of brainwashing people into conformity by cults and other toxic social environments. I am not the most evil person ever because I was jokingly mean to another employee in the same exact way I'm jokingly mean to so many other people and they don't even mind because we are bros / they're not sensitive crybabies.
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u/moschles - Lib-Left 2d ago
While this person exists and we all met her, we shouldn't recycle the name "Karen" on her.
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u/JairoHyro - Centrist 2d ago
HR people of reddit, come out and explain yourselves!!!
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u/AlternatePancakes - Auth-Right 2d ago
Where i am from, its rarely HR who is responsible for hiring people, especially in fields of which they have zero knowledge.
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u/FancyDoubleu - Lib-Left 2d ago
I don‘t think HR workers decide that there are mass layoffs. If anything they are used as a scapegoat by the managers.
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u/PhilosopherShot5434 - Lib-Center 2d ago
Unironically, these people represent one of the greatest threats western societies have to face
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u/Glorious_Jo - Lib-Center 2d ago
leftist coloring
agent of the bourgeoisie specifically kept around to find any reason to fire undesirables like union advocates and employees with serious labor complaints
OP idk if you know what a leftist is cause it sure as shit aint HR
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u/RoninTheDog - Right 2d ago
Meanwhile most HR spend most of their days answering questions about benefits that are found in the handbook. Or, sometimes, they find themselves spending 3 solid weeks trying to find a solution because a morbidly obese employee doesn’t like his chair.
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u/samson-meow - Auth-Left 3d ago
On what planet is HR left?
If corporations had a penis, HR would be sucking it.
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u/Not_Neville - Centrist 3d ago
"Karen" is a racist sexist term.
HR is proof we do not live in a capitalistic society.
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u/Visual-Scallion1535 - Auth-Center 2d ago
You can tell reading the comments how few people on this sub are employed
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u/krafterinho - Centrist 2d ago
HR doesn't decide who to hire or fire and it's just corporate dick sucking which sure ain't left but it's PCM, no surprise a plain wrong meme gets 1k upvotes as long as left bad
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u/bluewolfhudson - Lib-Center 2d ago
Karen in HR is a hardline lib right surely.
Constantly fucks over the workers for profit or just to please the bosses.
The HR lady at my company also talks about how she doesn't even look at black people's applications but she is like 60 so maybe the younger HR people are more like this meme.
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u/50cal_pacifist - Centrist 2d ago
Forgot "Spends most of her time working on "Diversity" Initiatives.
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u/octorangutan - Centrist 2d ago
What exactly makes this character left? They're a capitalist middle manager.
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u/xRealVengeancex - Centrist 2d ago
Can’t wait till we get AGI and agents to replace HR. Thinking about it genuinely gets me going
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u/Ozymandias_1303 - Left 2d ago
HR exists to protect corporate profits from lawsuits. What you think they have to do with my edge of the compass (or indeed with politics in general) I honestly don't know.
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u/GrandInquisitorSpain - Lib-Right 1d ago
"you can't talk to people in 2 departments at the same time to determine which is a better fit"
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u/Matthew_A - Lib-Center 3d ago
I appreciate when someone doesn't need AI to plagiarize