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Bear in mind that most places, HR is trusted roughly as much as your average scorpion. People dread the mere possibility of ever dealing with HR.
by Kalium 12y ago
Bear in mind that most places, HR is trusted roughly as much as your average scorpion. People dread the mere possibility of ever dealing with HR.
- hudibras 12y agoNo argument here; I work in HR myself. But people dread a lot of things that the law requires them to do, like fill out income tax forms or stand in line at the DMV for a drivers license. That's just part of being an adult.
- javert 12y agoAll kinds of horrible things can be papered over with the reasoning, "that's just part of being an adult." For instance, taxes are needlessly complicated and dealing with that complexity is an enormous drain on the economy; we should fix it.
- mikeash 12y agoIs it really "most places," or is it like many things where it's rare but nobody talks about the nice interactions so you get a skewed impression? (I haven't had any real job with an HR department so I have no direct experience myself.)
- Kalium 12y agoThe general belief is that HR is there to protect the company from you. As a result, HR is not generally expected to help you with your problems, and any encounter with HR has a dramatically greater potential downside than potential upside. So in the interests of controlling risk, encounters with HR are to be limited.