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[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 year ago

HR is there to hire you and fire you, even their title is creepy, Human Resources

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Used to know someone who titled themselves a “Human capital specialist” on LinkedIn. What a weird fucking thing to call yourself.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

maybe deep down he was so hate fueled he decided to partake in satire

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

She was very serious about her job and had a Karen haircut.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

is it sexist towards men or women i assumed she was a man LMFaO

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Idk but I’m reporting you to HR.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

The human capital specialist will speak to your manager and see you in court

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel so bad for women named Karen who aren’t bitches. It doesn’t seem fair.

[-] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even their title is creepy, Human Resources

The only appropriate use of the term is when your cat is talking about you to other cats...

Reporting abuse from a boss to HR is like reporting cop abuse to the cops.

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

This is the truth. I was being abused by a boss of mine, with him demanding to know the whole of my medical history. He also demanded doctor excuses go directly to him, and not HR as I was told,

Needless to say, HR shared that I was bitching about him and he messed up my desk, breaking an ornament and a knickknack that was precious to me at the time (I got it on honeymoon). I took photos, and HR even saw him near my desk at the time of all of that happened

It took a major civil suit to get the video, but after the judge saw it 'my case was won' according to the judge. It was so obvious of evidence of him breaking stuff, spitting on my chair, snapping my laptop.

I even got special consideration because my boss then gave me a laptop that was so old that I couldn't load the required VPN software.

I'm glad I got out of a corporate run tech field. It'll eat your soul without you noticing until it's too late...

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 33 points 1 year ago

And those interests sometimes align with yours! Typically when the company is legally in the wrong and they know they are fucked if you sue em

[-] Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but the HR people rely on paycheques from corporate. And corporate often has enough resources to make legal battles difficult at best.

Even if their interests are aligned with you, they probably won't have a job at the end

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago

Corporate's interests isn't to enter losing legal battles

[-] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 1 year ago

But you can win by outspending...

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hard sell, but also outspending isn't in corporates interests either so I don't know what you're getting at

If you have the threat of a losing, uphill and costly legal battle, the company is gonna be on the side of... having it not happen

It's always the bottom line

Unless you're being harassed by the chairmen of the board, the company likely won't risk a big scandal and legal expense to protect your local middle management diddler

[-] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm talking about outspending on defense and offering settlements. It doesn't take much to exhaust a wage slave's capacity to keep a suit going, even pretrial.

There's a reason most cases settle before trial. The judicial system heavily incentivizes settlement and corporations can spend more on lawyers than their employees can.

The employee's lawyer is also gauging the cost benefit to their own time spent on the case, so the client/employee ends up getting shafted.

Of course, if there is a really egregious case, like you're envisioning, that can go farther down the road, but it's still an uphill battle for the plaintiff.

Edit: All this isn't even taking into account the fatigue plaintiffs go through, waiting for their cases to even get in front of a judge can take some serious time and then a trial can be even lengthier.

[-] jettrscga@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just here to say Omelette du fromage.

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just here to say: It's all you can saaay, it's all you can saaaaaaaay!

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Depends, if you're working for the state anyways. Typically, at least from what I've seen, HR people in state departments are usually the ones telling you to join a union.

That being said, I joined the union and I still treat HR like they have the plague.

[-] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

This is a distinction I had to explain thoroughly when communicating with people in state jobs. It's genuinely different. Mainly because of the added oversight.

[-] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

~~the business~~

themselves.

[-] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Let me just throw QA into the ring as well. If anyone would report you to HR, it's someone in a QA position, or your direct manager. The difference is that your manager needs you to work your position. The QA person needs to find flaws.

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