Is it Human Resources at your job helpful ?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

I am not putting HR down or anything but I think that they need one or more person in charge job postings and hirings. I have a new position within a new department and all I am waiting on now is my start date. I want to be released to my new department ASAP because 1) the person who taking over what I do needs to get used to doing it 2) they don't need me 3) even special projects don't entertain me 4) they know I am bored so why not let me go on to my new department ? Especially before the new pay period. The one person that we are waiting has so much on her hands that I think it would be easier if someone else could help them out. It would be better for those of us who post for new jobs and have to wonder for a month whether or not we got the job or not. I am so ready to go to my new department I will start tomorrow if I could.

Just ranting :)

[reyd reid reed]

1. Heh

Ha!

LOL!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Oh. Wait. That wasn't a joke?

:blush:



Seriously...not really. I can't think of a single thing they've done that's been helpful to me, either now or when I got hired.

They did take the picture for my work ID. We won't go there, though. That alone is enough to convict 'em.

[wildhorses]

2. the mood I am in right now....pretty much EVERY dept at my

hospital SUCKS!! we used to be a good place to work but, since this clique has moved in :wtf:

[reyd reid reed]

3. Yup. I know.

My job used to be fun. Sometimes it still is, but I got shushed again tonight. Can someone explain to me how the fuck I'm s'posed to train someone without speaking? One of these days...

:nuke:

[wildhorses]

4. my boyfriend wants to go in business for himself...

and dang He has the expertise and he has been in business before...he sure makes a tempting offer...

but, I digress :evilgrin:


truly though...he was talking about again today and I am fast running out of arguments :shrug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. That is the problem in my current department :

the leader of the self famous clique is just a bitch and none of us want to risk our sanity or our jobs to call her on it. She thinks that everyone owes her something and she does'nt know anything at all - she is just there to create MESS. She is a very ugly person.

[khashka]

5. Hate to tell you this.... but.....

HR is not helpful. Mostly we got drunk, played liar's dice, had sex in bathrooms and storerooms, and tried to find more amusing and creative ways to tell people they would not get the job. (That skill came in useful when we filed sexual harrassment charges against each other.)

HR is a boondoggle. If you can get in, you are much better talking directly to your potential boss. Most people are looking for good employees... and when someone shows up saying here are my skills, my talents, and I want this job and know I'll be an asset. Well, most people take notice.

Anyway, good luck on the job. Just don't take no for an answer - persistance and ambition are very impressive.


Khash.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. I already have the job.

I think HR is the one we are both waiting on. But it was my new manager who told me I got it so I will just ask him - no tell him that I am ready to start ASAP. Plus my current manager is not sure to release me from my current department I told him to do it ASAP.

[driver8]

6. Our HR is about as helpful as a rubber crutch.

Where I work, we have union workers and corporate workers. HR does not have much say in the hiring of union workers, if any. However, they are always sitting in on meetings involving union members and management to make sure that we union scumbags don't get away with anything we aren't supposed to.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. We don't have a union at my job.

We really need one.

[PVnRT]

9. You can't spell "Who Cares?" without HR

Seriously, HR is about as worthless as it gets. I suppose it's needed, however, for those without any real marketable skills.

[skygazer]

11. Just the opposite most of the time

HR at my job serves primarily to be the mediator in disputes between employees (harassment allegations, improper behavior, etc.) and in cases of employee misbehavior (like theft or vandalism). In reality, certain people seem to have HR on their speed dial and every time they're in a bad mood, they call about someone else, often after goading that person into lashing out at them (in once instance, the worst offender kept needling and needling another employee until that employee called her a "bitch." Quick call to HR and the namecaller was dragged off to the office and suspended for three days. Instigator was not punished in any way).

HR in my workplace seems to play favorites, like the above employee who cannot be transferred because if she was, managment knows she'd accuse them of retaliation which is a no-no. Yet when I lodged a legitimate complaint about a co-worker who I knew was stealing from my backstock (booze and the kid was underage), nothing was done. He was never spoken to about it and the thefts continued. I complained on 3 different occasions. Nothing. He ended up quitting on his own to go work somewhere else.

In seven years, I've seen no earthly use for them.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

16. You are right.

There are some people who are always in HR like they have it on speed dial. And the situation you talked about with the instigator? Its happening right now - it takes all of my might not to call this person a bitch - even my manager and trainers can't stand her. She harrasses other co-workers (I posted a while ago about how she would pick on one girl so bad that she wanted to commit suicide.) This is how stupid she is - if she were to find my myspace site , she would print out of hundreds of copies and distribute them like it would hurt me. And why would it - its on the internet , a public domain for all to see. But she is so low on the totem pole that nobody cares - but I do think they need to do something about her.

[huskerlaw]

12. Actually, yes

the HR department at my job ROCKS. Seriously, I love them.

In fact, I love them more because I realize how odd it is to have an HR department that doesn't suck ass.

[kwassa]

13. HR is essentially worthless

they rubber-stamp hiring decisions made by others, and act mostly as a gatekeeper to keep people out, rather than help them find and keep jobs.

[gfindu]

14. Not even close

to being helpful. We would be better with monkeys.

[commander bunnypants]

15. The Ministry of people- Pleassee

worthless. The Director is there to play golf with the XO


CB

[raccoon]

17. Tim Fields, a Brit who has done a lot to bring workplace bullying

to the attention of the public, said that the main function of HR is to keep the employer out of court.

[Serial Mom]

18. Little saying I heard...

HR is neither Human nor a Resource

Only one person I knew who was in HR a while back where I used to work fit that saying. She was the biggest gossip and most anxious to sue the company on items in the law she found before she quit. She ended up getting almost double her salary because of her shady / deceptive practices and threats to sue.

[Mutley]

19. I am Human Resources at my job.

:evilgrin:

I think I'm helpful. If I worked in your company, I'd be trying to get you moved to your new department immediately. Once a decision like that is made, there's no reason to wait around.