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Hopefully the author also learned a valuable lesson here - HR is there to protect the interest of the company, not your friend. As someone who worked in RM(Rep

Hopefully the author also learned a valuable lesson here - HR is there to protect the interest of the company, not your friend. As someone who worked in RM(Reputation Management), my team have prevented, or mitigated a significant amount of potential reputation risk from would-be whistleblowers and dissatisfied employees. It's not a matter of friendship, but of interests.

hemloc_io 6y ago
"It's not a matter of friendship, but of interests" would be a great book title if you ever write one :P
- sombremesa 6y ago
  That's a horrendous book title.
- clumsysmurf 6y ago
  Already written "Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15PC4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15PC4
  - nsajko 6y ago
    Interestingly, there's another book with the same title. Both are from 2005: By Dephillips: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437452.Corporate_Confidential https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437452.Corporate_Confide... By Shapiro: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62085.Corporate_Confidential https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62085.Corporate_Confiden...
  - one2three4 6y ago
    * There's no right to free speech in the workplace. * Age discrimination exists. * Why being too smart is not too smart. * Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect the company from you That's just from the back of the book. OK. I need to read this.
- ddalex 6y ago
  My next company will be called "Anonymous Association of Business Interests". Has a cyberpunk feel to it.
ska 6y ago
> It's not a matter of friendship, but of interests. This is a good point, but missing one of the big things that affect dynamics: there is typically a huge imbalance of power between an employee and employer, so most often if your interests diverge, the employee will lose. The worst case scenario for this can be terrible, even for an employee who has done nothing wrong.
earthscienceman 6y ago
In a non-critical way I would love to hear you explain your line of thinking in working in "RM". As in, how do you find your job morally fulfilling when your work is to "mitigate risk from would-be whistleblowers"? As an outsider to the industry, this sounds like corporate speak for "make sure that the harm the company causes isn't seen by the outside world"
- angelbar 6y ago
  Its called the Nuremberg defense
fmajid 6y ago
What I don’t understand is how they think sheltering harassers can ever work out in the long run. By enabling them, they are reinforcing the behavior and guaranteeing repeats, and increasing the chances of a major scandal or huge settlements.
cutemonster 6y ago
> my team have prevented, or mitigated a significant amount of potential reputation risk from would-be whistleblowers and dissatisfied employees How do you typically do that?

hemloc_io 6y ago

"It's not a matter of friendship, but of interests" would be a great book title if you ever write one :P

sombremesa 6y ago
That's a horrendous book title.
clumsysmurf 6y ago
Already written "Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15PC4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15PC4
- nsajko 6y ago
  Interestingly, there's another book with the same title. Both are from 2005: By Dephillips: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437452.Corporate_Confidential https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437452.Corporate_Confide... By Shapiro: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62085.Corporate_Confidential https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62085.Corporate_Confiden...
- one2three4 6y ago
  * There's no right to free speech in the workplace. * Age discrimination exists. * Why being too smart is not too smart. * Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect the company from you That's just from the back of the book. OK. I need to read this.
ddalex 6y ago
My next company will be called "Anonymous Association of Business Interests". Has a cyberpunk feel to it.

ska 6y ago

> It's not a matter of friendship, but of interests. This is a good point, but missing one of the big things that affect dynamics: there is typically a huge imbalance of power between an employee and employer, so most often if your interests diverge, the employee will lose. The worst case scenario for this can be terrible, even for an employee who has done nothing wrong.

earthscienceman 6y ago

In a non-critical way I would love to hear you explain your line of thinking in working in "RM". As in, how do you find your job morally fulfilling when your work is to "mitigate risk from would-be whistleblowers"? As an outsider to the industry, this sounds like corporate speak for "make sure that the harm the company causes isn't seen by the outside world"

angelbar 6y ago
Its called the Nuremberg defense

fmajid 6y ago

What I don’t understand is how they think sheltering harassers can ever work out in the long run. By enabling them, they are reinforcing the behavior and guaranteeing repeats, and increasing the chances of a major scandal or huge settlements.

cutemonster 6y ago

> my team have prevented, or mitigated a significant amount of potential reputation risk from would-be whistleblowers and dissatisfied employees How do you typically do that?