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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good reason to unionise.

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[+] [email protected] -26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I assume they talked to you about your poor grammar and spelling ? What was the outcome ?

Edit: the people downvoting this are promoting, or at least accepting poor education, and trump is the result of a poorly educated society. Think about that next time you say that spelling and grammar don't matter.

Damn there are a lot of ignorance loving fascists here. It's great being able to so easily identify and block every single one of you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Dat is stupid.

I guess dat makes me a trump voter now...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh come on. Trump has become the new Hitler. How long does it take before completely random topic is brought around to him?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

He could be dyslexic.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did boss' daughter have an eating disorder, because that's a pretty savage callout.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

HR is employed by the company to protect the company/capital.

A regulatory watchdog (so not on company's payroll) would be the one to protect the workers. Even a union could to a certain degree.

[+] [email protected] -56 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

This is just a tawdry /r/antiwork meme borne of McDonalds burger flipper level reasoning.

Sure, companies maximise profits and hire HR to assist them in that objective.

However, your own interests are often aligned with theirs.

If you want to sue your employer, then obviously HR is not there to help you do that.

However, if your supervisor is an ass who makes witty comments about how many cup cakes you ate, your interests are aligned with HR's - he needs to stop creating fodder for your bullying claim.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

your own interests are often aligned with theirs.

Seriously? If you are an employee of a company all you want to do is your job and then go home preferably after receiving a pay rise that didn't require additional work on your behalf. The company's interests however are to get as much work out of me as possible for as little compensation as possible.

The interests of myself and the interests of the company are diametrically opposed, there cannot be alignment because we are in an inherently adversarial relationship.

It's like claiming that your interests and your landlords interests align, and then completely ignoring the fact that you can never get him to come around and fix the broken light fixture. The thing I want him to do is the one the thing that he definitely doesn't want to do.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't presume you've checked the accumulated downvotes but

Mcdonalds burger flipper level reasoning

stinks pretty badly of classist ideology. Paired with a comment that seems more in-tune with the needs of the company than the employee, it does not paint you in a good light.

I understand the comment is speaking from the capitalist's side but you don't have to wear the suit so naturally. Historians won't be putting on red belly shirts and sticking their heads in honey jars to give talks about Xi Jinpeng in the future.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I don't care about downvotes. Imagine posting something and looking at the downvotes and thinking "oh golly gosh people don't like my opinion".

I also don't care whether you think my comment "paints me in a good light", or that I sound like a capitalist.

Lemmy users skew pretty hard towards young progressive anti-everything users that pick up these little factoids like "HR is there to protect the company" and rely on them as a prism through which to interpret the world.

No one who has ever interacted with HR thinks that they are fairy god-mother types you can snitch to and they'll fire your boss, but they're part of the context in which most people will spend their entire working lives, and people who understand how to navigate them will do better than those who do not.

I'll admit that the "burger flipper level reasoning" is gratuitous. I flipped burgers (but not for macdonalds) 20 years ago. I guess it is classist, but younger me absolutely falls into the "class" that I'm making fun of.

You're also welcome to frame me as capitalist because we all are and sadly it's naive to think you can be anything else. I voted for our socialist party in the recent Australian election. They won the election in a landslide, and while they have some "socialist" policies I suffer no illusions that I continue to reside in a capitalist reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

HR is there to ensure the company works. They will answer questions you have, they will change your name in the system if its necessary, they will help you out if you need something that aligns with the interests of company. They're not inherently bad people.

They are NOT the ones to go to when a conflict requires solving. It's literally not part of their job. That's what the works council is for. Don't have a works council? You're on your own.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Please spare me your strongman, "sticks and stones may break my bones" schtick. I'm not talking about soft shit like that.

I was addressing you from the standpoint of workshopping potential reasons why your attempt at persuasion was facing pushback (in the form of downvotes). My expectation was that, if you wanted to persuade people to adopt your method of HR interaction, you should package it in a palatable way. You seem to subscribe to the "shit yourself in public, stomp around aggressively, and then try convince people by saying do ya get it yet? you smellin' what I'm steppin' in?" school of communication.

One thing I will agree with you about is that I was imprecise with my words. I've used money, so I am a capitalist. Guess I'll die. I meant, and should have said, you seem pro-capitalist. But, as we've already established, you're uninterested in looking good.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That doesn't mean HR is staffed with intelligent people who will back up the smaller paycheck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I work with a lot of HR staff and it amazes me at their lack of ability. Like don't know how to do incredibly basic things in excel, my job is to help with using our products, not very basic data manipulation from exported data.

If you wanted a very obscure one off data extract I might write a SQL script for that, but some requests are met by existing export tools and hiding a column or two in excel.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

I had an elected official chuck pens at the HR lady and reference her recent weight loss during a training about professional behavior in the workplace. Unironically. But the HR lady laughed it off and then kind of flirted with the elected official and a program manager.

He was already on the way out but it did provide a good orientation for the workplace culture.

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