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HR's job is to step in and right things when managers fail, and at Google, they refuse to do that. No, that's a labor union's job. HR's job is to protect the c
by kyllo 14y ago
HR's job is to step in and right things when managers fail, and at Google, they refuse to do that.
No, that's a labor union's job. HR's job is to protect the company by mitigating risk from L&I related lawsuits. Period.
Programming can be considered a trade, and I think 99% of the shit you complain about could be solved by programmers unionizing. But of course, that would bring its own new set of problems.
- yuhong 14y agomichaelochurch has blogged on this matter: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-dont-need-a-union-we-need-a-profession/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...
- kyllo 14y agoSure, a strong professional association might be better than a labor union then. Point is, though, if you're looking to HR to represent your rights and interests, you're barking up the wrong tree.
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- michaelochurch 14y agoHR's job, I would say, is to keep employment relationships in a state that maximizes shareholder value. That includes recruiting, compensation fairness, firing of negative-impact personnel, and legal risk reduction. It doesn't align them always with employees, or always with management. It also means that good employees (who would deliver high value to the company if in a better managerial context) should be protected against bad managers. That's something HR rarely has the courage to do in most companies, but at Google, they don't even try.