I always read horror stories about how HR handles stuff in favor of management and how things always end badly for ICs. Hasn't anyone experienced any good outcomes ever? Like a surprising promo or making things right when an employee was wronged or something like that?
HR really hasn’t helped me, but they have done some great things for someone I know: our CEO. Our HR guy seems to protect the ceo quite well. I stopped telling HR guy my concerns when it became apparent that everything was being relayed to the ceo and nothing I said was confidential. I felt so naive!
Never helped me
A previous employer: Head of HR gave me a PIP heads up, coz the manager was known for being vindictive and was trying to get ppl to quit (3-4 had already done so in 3 months, due to the managers constant negativity). That gave me time to calm myself and approach the meeting in a logical and levelheaded way. I was able to respond and escalate, bought some time, changed companies and PIP was expunged. Gifted the HR guy a bottle of his favorite whisky before leaving. :)
This makes no sense. The PIP heads up is part of being PIP’ed. It’s like buying whisky for someone who shot you.
For someone I know: Hid an executive’s criminal act that a VP of HR and I witnessed. For me: Helped me build the courage to approach the EVP of HR about a Director who lied to his team, his boss, and a VP of HR; and, about whom the boss and VP/HR dismissed the serial lies. The pressure on me to overcome HR’s incompetence and denial made me a better person. I made an airtight case with evidence and witnesses to back it up. The serial-liar Director got fired. (Of course, it was on good terms and with severance, b/c he probably had some shit on someone higher up.) Also for me: HR helped me learn the lesson that nobody - not even those whose job it is and whose profession claims it as their mission - is gonna do a damn thing about repeated small crimes, white collar crimes, harassment, abuse, or nearly any other thing that one bad apple does to the rest of the bunch if it can be concealed with coercion, NDAs, and severance checks! Related, HR helped me learn that privilege is about power, not just skin color. And, the way to overcome privilege is to bring the aggrieved, non-HR people together.
Gave me my employment verification of letter.
tried to warm ceo that the guy he wanted to make coo was accused of sexual harassment. months later he was accused of sexual harassment in a glassdoor review and later fired after an investigation 🤣
At a prior job one of my friends in HR told me everyone’s salary before she ragequit.
A buddy has slept with three HR babes. He’d know better what they are best at.
I had to get surgery last year and they gave me a $100 gift card to Munchery to use while I recovered.
HR protects the company from you, not other way round
Of course they have to protect the company. But what if the management at fault? Aren't ICs considered as the managers of the future?