this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
1277 points (97.8% liked)
Videos
16793 readers
124 users here now
For sharing interesting videos from around the Web!
Rules
- Videos only
- Follow the global Mastodon.World rules and the Lemmy.World TOS while posting and commenting.
- Don't be a jerk
- No advertising
- No political videos, post those to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world instead.
- Avoid clickbait titles. (Tip: Use dearrow)
- Link directly to the video source and not for example an embedded video in an article or tracked sharing link.
- Duplicate posts may be removed
- AI generated content must be tagged with "[AI] …" ^Discussion^
Note: bans may apply to both !videos@lemmy.world and !politicalvideos@lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I am very familiar with HR at multiple fortune 500 corporations.
You're so close to getting the point. You realize HR are the executives' scapegoats. HR's purpose is to serve the rich assholes fucking everyone else over. Anyone working HR is complicit whether they're intelligent enough to realize it, or just a useful idiot.
HR exists to insulate people with real authority in a business from those who suffer from their whims. In a lot of companies, your job is to get yelled at so some ghoulish C level executive isn't forced to strain their neurons processing the emotional reality of the fact that their decisions impact real people in negative ways. It might disrupt their "objectivity" and make it harder to issue layoffs next time.
It's basically customer service for employees.
Well, if you're working for that company in any other role your purpose is to serve the rich assholes anyway.
Anyone in the company is serving the rich assholes fucking everyone else over. All the money they are producing goes to the rich assholes.
Better yet, get a job in HR and sabotage the company from the inside!
Though, the reality is that most menial HR jobs are like any other menial non-decision maker jobs, in any other area of the business, so your argument is just as applicable to, and just as disingenuous, for most roles in any business — e.g. like arguing janitor's at EvilCorp are complicit class traitors because they enrich EvilCorp and facilitate it's success.
Wouldn't that also apply to engineers working for those rich assholes? Because there are a lot of engineers working for rich assholes here who like to trash HR, starting with me.
They both prostitute themselves to serve the rich to get more money even though they are educated enough to have the freedom to choose whom to work for.
You're talking about nuance after the vast generalization you wrote about HR? May beyou could self reflect on that nuance notion.
Just don't get a job in HR and no one can get fired. It's that easy guys.
HR is a legitimate job and serves and important purpose in the structure of a company. You can't dismiss it by saying their purpose is to serve rich assholes because that's the purpose of every job at a company. That's work, that's most jobs.
Except HR's entire purpose is to insulate management. They're not exactly producing anything
Production of goods is not relevant at all there are plenty of valid jobs that do not produce anything. Having an HR department in a large company allows other departments to focus on what they are good at and have HR handle all the employee contracts, hiring, firing, complaints, performance reviews, leave etc.
All those tasks you listed are really the responsibility of management. HR is basically the grease between the decisions of upper management and the reactions of the lowly prawns
They can be the responsibility of management in smaller companies but at scale they require a department.