HR Bitches

I never really understand why HR women are such fucken bitches. I’ve worked with quite a few HR departments and I have found this to be true of them all, seriously. 100% I could count on one hand how many of them weren’t awful. And worse still, they seem to make no appology. What is it, the power? God given. God complex? Is it that they (the perception is) know everything? Is it the bully phenomena? (I often wonder if all HR women were bullied as children) Is it power with which they are dizzy?

And you know, if the senior HR women are bitches, guess who are always training the next generation. So, is it a self perpetuating thing?

Is it HR’s function to train staff, managers, I guess, in their roles? You know, as far as, handling staff? HR don’t do this, so HR issues are always being exacerbated, so these bitches are always frustrated? 

HR’s role is not to manage issues for the business, or the managers. HR’s role is to coach the managers to manage their own issues, HR need to provide them with the support, confidence and the tools to be able to navigate tricky people issues on a daily basis. The more they do it, the better they get and the better outcomes the company derives.

We have an online leave system, which was introduced by HR. Staff enter their leave which notifies a manager to go into the system to authorise it. If mangers don’t authorise the leave, the whole system breaks down. In our company, the managers don’t authorise the leave. After many unsuccessful attempts by my boss, the CFO, to get HR to train our managers in this very simple function, he gave the authorisation of leave to me, because he couldn’t spend any more time trying to get HR to do their job.

Is it because HR is really just a complaints department? Realistically, people are generally idiots, so I guess dealing with that every day is going to turn you into a misery.

I remember at one law firm that I worked, we had an HR manager, and one of the few who were genuinely lovely, who came from London where she worked for a company that had 10,000 staff and something like 5 HR people.

We had a staff of 2000 and we had 37 HR people.

She said, “They are not unique in this, but I really think they are building empires rather than good relations with anyone.”

Not that that really addresses the key question of why HR women are usually awful people.

Human Remains, I saw written more than once.

 

Quoting others online

I find them arrogant. It’s not the pressure – its built into their "role".

Because if you notice – when you have issues with company/colleagues – they will not side with you – protecting the company is their main/only goal.

In the company I work for, they aren't here to help the employees. They are hired by the partners, they are paid by the partners and they work for the partners. They certainly aren't employed to help the employees.

Also, HR doesn't work for you. They work for the boss. Not sure why people always think otherwise.

There are wonderful women that work within human resources, however in my experience there are also a lot that are just awful. More so than any other industry I've worked.

My conclusion is that they (HR women) are not able to handle pressure very well and take it out on others. This just isn't my observation, my friends have similar views. I'm wondering if anyone else is in the same boat?

Mostly because they often have the tentative ear of the management, and they think, by extension, that means they're management too.

HR women have an over inflated sense of ego, because they work closely with management, they think they are management.

HR departments have been abandoned, and not suffered any significant throw-back, because HR wasn't delivering any real value. Most of their time was taken up with bureaucratic and administrative tasks or legal issues. If HR doesn't deliver some unique benefits then outsourcing it makes a lot of business sense.

HR generally doesn't know the inner workings of the business outside of their own department. HR is too involved with policy and creates more roadblocks – instead of removing them. HR loves office politics. HR is too obsessed with policy and training instead of focusing on important things like culture, trust, and moral.

HR staff members are dishonest. They don’t tell the truth about how they handled an employee situation. They misrepresent the employee’s story to management. HR staff is untrustworthy because they lie to cover up their mishandling of situations.

HR staff members are not impartial or fair. Their desire to keep their jobs, and earn a bigger salary and their next promotion, keeps them from acknowledging the legitimate employee point of view.

And to those of you who think I am being mean to the girls, let's talk about the men of HR.

They all sort of have a nana quality about them. The types who would have to ask their wives, or girlfriends, Jenny, what opinion they should have.

They are the types of guys for which the expression ‘grow a pair’ was coined.

They tend to dress in pastel, or beige coloured ill fitting cloths. They wear far too much cologne. They have rings, and fussy sorts of jewellery. They tend to be really slack, and slapdash.

They generally lack any sexual attraction whatsoever.