People need to understand this

A lot of bad companies and bad employees on here. I have been working on the lighter side of HR for a while now (recruitment, policy writing, OHS, training) and I can tell you none of my colleagues know what I'm up to coz they just assume those things magically happen. Who got your staff better PPE in winter? me. Who got the GM to send out more information about the site shutdown well in advance so you could get your EI sorted out? Me. Who's rooting for bigger training budgets? Me. Who gets mentioned in anyone of the communications? Not me.

HR gets a bad rap coz they appear when shit is going down, but that's coz they're designed to keep everyone accountable.

For example: You're always late - you signed a contract saying you'd show up at certain times, you're not doing that. We said in that contract we'd pay you for showing up, we hold up our end of the deal. A reasonable company would encourage you to speak with a supervisor/manager if you were having difficulties doing this. You're defensive coz you know you're not following the agreement but there's probably a good reason, you just haven't shared it yet.

HR isn't there - your manager decided to write you up when they're in a shitty mood coz now they've got other staffers complaining you're always late and they don't have time for this shit. They shout, they skip some steps, say it wrong, maybe come across in a harassing way BOOM! Lawsuit. At a minimum you're going through a complaint process. People will need training or counselling or a performance evaluation now. You're not working, you're going through the law to get yourself protected, you're unproductive at work coz you're pre-occupied with this whole scenario, your boss is fucking up and we gotta deal with that. Everyone loses. You lose, manager loses, company loses.

Better we all just sit down together and say "yo guy, you're late a lot and that's not what we agreed when we hired you. You alright bro? Coz we'd like you to show up, that's important. You know it's the right thing to do, can we help you out? What's the deal?Here's a record we talked to you and gave you a chance to tell us you needed help."

Coz if there's one thing you learn about when you're settling with some guy who purposely did the thing you told him not to do (but didn't get it in writing) it's that if it isn't documented then it may as well have never happened.

IN THIS THREAD: Anyone with an axe to grind with HR who either works for a shitty company or has fucked up and can't be the bigger person about it.

I know you'll all down vote me but this wouldn't be an industry if it wasn't true. I'm not saying people don't get fucked over, but I'm yet to find a person who has asked for help ever be turned away - management or employee. HR doesn't go looking for trouble. Trouble comes to us.

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