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OP got in trouble with HR and now he wants us all to be just as mad.

I'd you as an employee thinks HR is there for you, you're a fucking idiot!!!

HR are there for 1 thing only and that is to do the best thing for the company and that very rarely matches up to what is best for the employee!!

Screw HR and anyone that works there tbh

They can do both if it's in the company's interests but that's the best-case scenario.

This is it. I hate blanket statements like this video is making. Yes, at large companies most HR reps probably do not have your best interests as an employee in mind. But I’ve had some great HR reps in my career that helped me out of tough spots, to no benefit of the company. Got one from a previous job that I still consider a friend, so fuck this guy for telling them to “rope it.”

I haven't watched this video, but HR's sole responsibility is to protect the company.

HR is not your friend. They are the friendly face of the business and their job is to limit litigation

The value is for your boss (or even your bosses boss) to not have to get in an arguement with you which I'd assume is more likely if your boss hands it to you personally.

Don’t forget philosopher

You can literally do both. What’s good for the goose is often good for the gander. Pushing to get better working practices, incentives and benefits also benefits you as someone in HR as well as helping your company improve retention.

Yeah this villainizing of HR is insane. Just realize they don’t have any sort of duty to you, and treat them like an arm of the company as they literally are

That’s such a American way of thinking. I feel often sad for the business culture there. Sincerely, Hr person from Northern Europe

r/antiwork is leaking.

I'm not sure what you are thinking if you believe HR fights for employees and not the company they work for.

So you got burned by HR once because you didn’t realize what their purpose was /didn’t educate yourself and now you want all HR workers to commit suicide? Sounds like you have other issues to work through

Human ressources as human are ressources not ressources for human...

The sooner you get that, the easier it get to deal with them

HR killed this dudes dog.

"Enforce company policies, which benefit the employer"

Oof..did they force you to write that? Or are you just a part of the Collective now?

Funny, every job I have ever worked at had HR just get a list of open positions and a salary range for it. Possibly a priority version so they knew what to aim for more heavily.

They never decided how much to budget for hires or even pay raises, that was other departments.

Nope

> One of the many purposes of HR is to have someone between the person recieving the news and the decision maker.

That hilarious explanation makes HR sound even more useless than I thought in the first place.

So, I literally can't expand my department because the company hired people to be between me and my boss to give me the news he wouldn't have to give me if we didn't have all these HR people?

Not really showing me the value of HR there.

He's talked to hundreds of employees, he's got anecdotal evidence to back up his stupidity. Just another ambulance chaser.

I'm not sure what point you think you are making. He said that in the UK (or specifically in tech) HR "is awesome and fighting for the employees" when in fact they fight for the company and not the employees. They'll fight for the employees if it is in the company's best interest but that's it.

Whatever job you do is also exploitative to someone but you’re too dumb to realize

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