Comments on: Video: The Real HR

By: Torryann

Torryann — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:21:46 +0000

In my case HR is the bully. I’ve reported it several times to upper management to only be told that we all need to get along. She has given me the finger from another Managers office, due to a workers comp injury my work station was evaluated and adjusted by an expert, a month later my work station was moved to the front door while I was at lunch. It complicated my injury, I sat there for 6 weeks before my boss had me moved back. I am currently recovering from surgery due to the complication. She has spoken badly about me, she threatened that anyone who was friends with a specific gal at work were going to be her targets and guess what, I am friends with that girl. She has called me data entry in emails to the entire office staff when I am actually the purchasing agent. It is brutal and upper management just keeps telling me they know she’s a problem, but they do nothing..I am looking for another job, but until I am fully healed from my work related injury it’s impossible. We need laws on the books preventing this behavior.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:32:35 +0000

I agree that HR is not there for the employee but for management. I worked for 14 years at my last job. The HR people got younger and snippier. The last thing they were interested in was helping the employee. One HR person was down right rude and so incompetent she couldn’t even answer questions about benefits for people. Have you ever heard of someone getting a written warning for being upset and rude after being demeaned by an HR person? Happened to me. I didn’t know being upset was worthy of a warning and being rude was a reaction to the rudeness I was receiving. We started calling them inhuman resources and no one wanted to go to them for anything.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:22:07 +0000

Yep. HR is there to support managers and to protect the company against lawsuits. Managers can violate companies policy but if they don’t violate the law, then HR is not compelled to do anything. They suck.

By: Laid Off and Healthier

Laid Off and Healthier — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:05:13 +0000

I totally agree with this after experiencing almost exactly the same reactions from HR at a company I was with for ten years (stellar performance every year). The department I worked in went to HR as a group to try to resolve an issue with a Bully Boss. HR nodded and took notes in our meetings. A few weeks later I was selected as the sacrificial lamb and was part of the next round of layoffs. It worked. No one else is saying anything about the continued bullying for fear of losing their jobs. They’re all on medication, but I’m not. Four months later, the company is advertising for my replacement, but it’s now an entry level position. I’d work in the sewers before I’d go back to that toxic environment.

By: Steve Openshaw

Steve Openshaw — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:35:31 +0000

I was harrased my my supervisor at Syngenta for two years. In desperation I went to HR who “arranged” for a mediated (by HR) discussion. According to the so-called Syngenta Code of Conduct, “Syngenta assures employees who raise issues that it will take no adverse action against them for reporting conduct by others that may be in violation of the Code”. The meeting never happened: instead, my position was eliminated within days.

By: Susie Gudino

Susie Gudino — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:26:16 +0000

So does that mean that every HR that exists in the U.S. is not doing what they’re supposed to be doing? Are they all like this? Why do companies have this position then? What is their purpose?