I see here conflicting comments about HR. A lot of ppl say HR is not on your side, but also saying if there is anything record and report to HR. I can understand general consensus of “HR is not your friend” but when it comes to sexism at work place, sexual harassment, is it that bad? Anyone ever have experienced or witnessed?
Read a book called corporate confidential: 50 corporate secrets... Sounds cheesy, but a useful read. Written by some former HR executive
Yes.. in that book the author recommends handling sexual harrassment privately by switching teams if you want your career because hr will never be on your side.
In my experience, HR is an absolute last resort. I reported my boss for harassment and basically began packing up my things because I knew it was just a matter of time before they got rid of me. Two months+1 day later, I was being escorted out with no official reason given.
Is this real? No investigation or anything after report?
It sucks!! was there any further action you could take afterwards?
This happened to me too
Can you give us more details if possible? I think it would be really helpful for everyone who might need to report one day or even considering to do so at this moment...and always better what to do or at least know what might happen....
I reported someone and HR came up with no evidence to back up my claim. Even though they never spoke to my witnesses or read the emails i documented against the perpetrator.
I would be very careful going to HR especially if you work in a brotopia type company. If you do go, make HR understand you have proof and they have to support you.
There’s a girl on reddit who sent a male employee a link to her drawings (which he asked for), some of which were also NSFW. He started harassing her for it. During lunch he would tell other employees stuff like “You should see what she draws.” She was visibly uncomfortable and rather than striking it head on, reddit adviced her to tell her manager. She did and the manager punked out and directed her to HR. Well they first asked her condescending questions about sexual harassment and then suspended her for sending NSFW links and didn’t do anything about the male employee harassing her.
Insane. Did she reveal which company she worked for? Would love to know to avoid at all cost!!
She didn’t mention the company name
Read between the lines and know HR isn’t your friend but will pretend to be. I experienced it at FANG company where I reported a corrupt and unethical manager and was told I wasn’t collaborating. It was total BS and everyone saw this managers output (terrible) but no one stood up to say anything. I left with my integrity intact but HR did zero. Useless and very telling of the company. Glad I left!
Even at a FANG company...so mindblowing
Your HR reps are probably young and junior, reporting to uninvolved middle managers with little authority. No chance any of them will stand up to someone more senior than them (which doesn't take much), unless there's a mountain of evidence that would be a slam dunk in court.
I think yes. You will be retaliated and labeled. So far I haven’t had a good experience with this.
I reported sexual assault to HR. They were very nice to me, and acted like they were on my side. In the end, they protected the company. Whether because HR has no real power and their bosses made the actual decisions, or because they know implicitly their job is to protect the people who pay their salaries, I don’t know.
Did you have a documented proof? Per your comment below, just curious that helped....
No, he made sure there were no cameras or people watching. So, no proof.
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HR is hired to protect the company. Since this is the case many people fear retaliation for going to HR for issues such as sexual harassment. And for good reason. There are thousands of reports made to the EEOC each year of retaliation for reporting harassment to HR.
So what does usually happen when you report to EEOC?