4 ms·
I Should Never Have Trusted HR to Keep My Secret
- spthorn60 9y agoHR is not on your side; they're present to protect the interests of the company, however ineffectively.
- draw_down 9y ago“I should never have trusted HR” — you can just stop there.
- hprotagonist 9y agoIn my dealings with HR, I have always come back to a quote from Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Azula always lies."
- dragonwriter 9y agoHR is the department of the company tasked by management to minimize the cost associated with the acquisition, retention, and eventual disposal of the firms “human resources” (in more normal language, employees), hence the name. It is not an internal ombudsman representing the interest of individual employees against other parties (especially management) within the firm. Every interaction with HR should involve this understanding being front and center.
- anigbrowl 9y agoAgreed, but why aren't HR departments required to stress that to employees when hired? It's absolutely not OK to let people think they can raise an issue in confidence if that's really only a bullshit promise (to use Harry Frankfurter's term).
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Agreed, but why aren't HR departments required to stress that to employees when hired? You mean required by government? Because it's pretty obvious why management doesn't require HR to highlight their adversarial relation to employees—it benefits management for the human resources to see the HR department and their friend and ally.
- anigbrowl 9y agoYes, by law.