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What grates me is that HR is full of people who go out of their way to appear as your friend. It's plain deception. If they were merely unapproachable and grum

What grates me is that HR is full of people who go out of their way to appear as your friend. It's plain deception. If they were merely unapproachable and grumpy that wouldn't be so bad. But they put on their smiley faces, ask about your well-being etc all while screwing you behind closed doors.

p_l 6y ago
Simultaneously both sad and funny is that sometimes they are genuinely trying. Which led to awkward case, when I - already leaving the company - joined so-called "haters meeting" which was supposed to bring feedback to the company, unfiltered... and I made head of HR cry by demolishing the whole "support for employee training and certification" program :( The top management (i.e. owner representatives) didn't see anything wrong with their turbo-libertarian policy (or were unsuccessfully trying to hide that they didn't actually want to provide any support) and left HR holding the bucket. Learning that pretty much anyone who wasn't wide eyed junior that has yet to finish studies considered the whole training&certification program to be a fig leaf that was more hassle than its worth (the quote was "anyone self-motivated enough the way management claims they want, is also wise enough to not lose time on something with zero expected payoff and will get training/certs on their own - then leave for better place"). That company has later went with worse and worse HR, in fact - a friend of mine who stayed on for few more years talked about how successive changes in HR went worse and worse. The one I faced could be considered last somewhat good team :(