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I would buy that. Speaking of generalizations, can we just all agree that all HR people are bad people and a pox upon this land?

• astrange 6y ago
  Surely the ones that run your payroll and 401k benefits are okay.
  • goatinaboat 6y ago
    Surely the ones that run your payroll and 401k benefits are okay. The old "Personnel Department" did that perfectly well long before HR was a thing.
  • tal8d 6y ago
    < 401k benefits Maybe it is because I've never worked in the valley, but I can't think of a positive 401k plan experience. I do remember a lot of onboarding powerpoint with regards to penalties and limitations. The whole thing feels coercive, having to participate in the market when you aren't interested in managing the position - simply to protect your savings from intentionally set inflation rates. All those "unsophisticated investors" (no joke, that is what they call you) are arguably the cause of the dot-com bubble as well, not because people were daytrading pets.com, but because fund managers had to put that surge of disinterested capital somewhere. I imagine that if powerpoint was around back in the day, the guys managing company store credit schemes would have functioned much like today's HR reps.
  • A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
    Pesky exceptions ruining perfectly good generalizations. You are right though. There is a reason for most roles. I just had my fill with HR lately so I am mildly biased against.