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HR is never your friend, they are the enemy.

by oxfordmale 3y ago

sylware 3y ago
My whole professional career was only betrayals following each other. Once I decided "Stop!" and actually doing things to prevent that to happen again: have been unemployed for more than a decade.
- lukevp 3y ago
  I’m having a hard time following what you’re saying. The person you replied to said HR is your enemy, which I interpret to mean - as an employee, HR is not on your side. They are on the company’s side. They may also coincidentally be on your side if it so happens to align with the company’s best interests, but not because they care for you. How does this relate to your situation? And why have you been unemployed for a decade? Most of the time, interaction with HR is super minimal, so I don’t see how this would prevent you from being employed anywhere.
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  - sylware 3y ago
    In nearly all my jobs, I was lied to and betrayed. Now I require that most critical things which were agreed on during the job interview to be added to the contract, that, in order to not be used against me (which did happen nearly in all my jobs because I did trust HR & the "manager"). But you are right, only one time the hiring process was stopped explicitely upon adding what we agreed on in the contract (basically, everything coming out of their mouth were lies). And nowadays, I have some health conditions which make things even harder, not to mention that I am fighting big tech (lawyers, looking for hard technical regulation, etc).
Spooky23 3y ago
My first job was a union gig. The HR people were comically evil and it was a useful learning experience. Those guys would burn the building down to “beat” the union over some bullshit issue. Without a contract and a counter-party they usually deploy a more banal evil that feels more like incompetence. But when the chips are down, they’ll gleefully bone you.

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HR is never your friend, they are the enemy.

by oxfordmale 3y ago

HR is never your friend, they are the enemy.

sylware 3y ago
My whole professional career was only betrayals following each other. Once I decided "Stop!" and actually doing things to prevent that to happen again: have been unemployed for more than a decade.
- lukevp 3y ago
  I’m having a hard time following what you’re saying. The person you replied to said HR is your enemy, which I interpret to mean - as an employee, HR is not on your side. They are on the company’s side. They may also coincidentally be on your side if it so happens to align with the company’s best interests, but not because they care for you. How does this relate to your situation? And why have you been unemployed for a decade? Most of the time, interaction with HR is super minimal, so I don’t see how this would prevent you from being employed anywhere.
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  - sylware 3y ago
    In nearly all my jobs, I was lied to and betrayed. Now I require that most critical things which were agreed on during the job interview to be added to the contract, that, in order to not be used against me (which did happen nearly in all my jobs because I did trust HR & the "manager"). But you are right, only one time the hiring process was stopped explicitely upon adding what we agreed on in the contract (basically, everything coming out of their mouth were lies). And nowadays, I have some health conditions which make things even harder, not to mention that I am fighting big tech (lawyers, looking for hard technical regulation, etc).
Spooky23 3y ago
My first job was a union gig. The HR people were comically evil and it was a useful learning experience. Those guys would burn the building down to “beat” the union over some bullshit issue. Without a contract and a counter-party they usually deploy a more banal evil that feels more like incompetence. But when the chips are down, they’ll gleefully bone you.