I feel like they immediately fire people for grey area offenses... Also, I understand 0 tolerance policies are in place for valid reasons, but I feel like it genuinely makes the work environment a worse place when rules are enforced without looking at someone's personality and the context as a whole.
Any examples of people getting fired for grey area offenses?
Asking a coworker out after work whom you've known for years in a non threatening way. A totally independent third person overhears and reports to HR. The two employees do not report to each other or even work together really
The employee who asked the other out is married but that's the only real thing that makes the request kinda iffy imo
Feelings > Facts
The way of life for liberals. Thanks to their childish temper tantrums and weak spineless companies who won’t fight them this is the motto of hr. It doesn’t help that hr is also staffed generally with absolute losers who are unqualified to do pretty much any other job.
I’m not seeing it here. You can be a dick towards anyone and it’s all good. Safra was on the trump transition team - no one cares.
HR doesn't fire anyone (unless in the HR Dept), they recommend action based on real or perceived risk. Department, Company management makes the employment effecting decision. Either way HR will take the heat if the decision blows up. So yeah HR is probably getting more sensitive.
HR is about making sure that the company doesn't get sued by its "resources." They don't care about the welfare of the resources themselves.
I get that, but I want to believe that I work for a company which also cares for it's people. At the end of the day, HR is just a department filled with people. And good people typically care...
Why would you think that? Companies are in business to make money and avoid losses. If you increase the probability of losses, you're fired.