I wonder how many people understand the simple concept, HR is not your friend. HR works for the company. HR always has the company's interests at heart.
And because HR is a very highly paid role now, when the HR people are not working for the company, they are always working for themselves and their career - read pay increases - progression.
If HR is ever there for the employee, which is arguable, the employee, at best, comes a fairly poor third.
I think many people labour under that misapprehension, but in truth, the clue is in the title. Human Resources, these are the resources of the company, that are the human element, which have to be managed. You are simply a part of the many resources the company employs that have to be managed.
(And the Witches of Eastwick are invariably the mechanism by which you are managed)
I have never met an HR employee who I haven't disliked. Oh, of course, there were the exceptions. There was the senior manager who always kept a carton of Coke Zero under her desk which she handed out willy nilly as a panacea to everything, who used to tell me HR was mostly bullshit. Or there was the other lovely senior manager who was so disenchanted with my termination at the black law firm that she left 6 months later to work in a munition's factory dedicating her life to the destruction of the human race. But, other than those two, they have been mostly trash you wouldn't piss on if they were burning. (too harsh?)
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