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A story from back when I worked in HR. Finance handed HR a list of teams to reduce. HR saw who had lowest performance metrics or was most recently hired. Then HR emailed the managers and said, ‘we want you to follow around Angela and Brian today, the first mistake they make, write it up and terminate them’. The company had laid off too many people and several states it operated in warned the company they would seek payment if too many more ex-employees filed for unemployment insurance.

Most employees skewed right politically and wouldn’t dream of fighting the company for their rightfully die unemployment benefits since they legitimately thought it was their fault, and many thought UI was socialism anyway.

After witnessing this I immediately began switching careers.

Remember HR is not there to protect the employees, it’s there to protect the company from employee related lawsuits.

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MiltownClowns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
HR is IT for people. Do you think the IT guy cares about all the laptops in the company? No, it’s a resource he manages. Do you think HR cares about all the people in the company. No it’s a resource they manage. Companies try so hard to make HR look like high school guidance counselors instead of the ruthless hatchet men they are.

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- toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It guy here, I care more about the computers and tech than HR cares about people. Fuck HR
  
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  - scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I know I feel empathy towards computers that are broken that I can’t help anymore
    
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    riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    When they won’t even boot into a Linux USB drive, make funeral preparations. Pack the dead body in a box and ship it to the hazmat recycling facility in the sky.
    
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  - sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I know right? Old piece of hardware getting retired? It gets new life if I have something for it to do. I’m looking at my Brother HL-5170DN from 2006 that got tossed because the 2nd tray kept jamming. Guess who doesn’t need a 2nd tray and loves this printer?
    
    My first home server was a decommissioned small business server. Was a file server for a long time until the hard drives started to go.
    
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    toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yuuuuuuuuuup. I always try to repurpose first instead of tossing. Even tossing for tech is a donation first if I can.
    
    Only thing I don’t love is a case I’ve had forever is an old enough ATX design that I can’t easily fit all the new things in it. I’d love to repurpose it for a desktop for her but I don’t think I’m going to love building things in it if I do.
    
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    MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yall IT guys are daisys thinking HR wouldn’t stop at owning slaves
    
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  - afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh you the new computer guy? Hey can you help me with the printer?
    
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    toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Have you turned it off and on again?
    
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- CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  IT guy here… Uh, no. I resent that you would group us with HR.
  
  At my work I keep advocating to give our underperforming hardware (aka old hardware) a second life by opening up sales for them instead of destroying them (except hard drives of course).
  
  When my laptop was acting up and was kind of crappy… I replace the thermal paste and replaced the old failing hard drive with a new SSD. At laptop is now 14 years old (Intel i5-540).
  
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  - bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    scribbles or notepad furiously
    
    Lobotomize..... Ex..... Co-workers.....
    
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  - Deluxe0293@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    thanks for replacing the thermal paste, I’m POSTing now, but i’m still having trouble with (issue i’ve been told to open a ticket for but am refusing to do). can you fix that please
    
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  - homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Attaboy
    
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- CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I care about the laptops. I care about them a lot. People return them in a shit state, I clean them up take care of them and then advocate to donate them to schools in the area.
  
  HR are just that, hatchet men.
  
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WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I went through a lay off being a manager once. It’s not fun at all. We had the list and the metrics. But we were already pretty small and we really didn’t want to lose anyone on the list except for a couple people.
So we basically gamed financial. Offered anyone that wanted it part time. Fired the few people people that were clearly not interested in working anyways. We did something else that I can’t remember, and we ended up being able to fucking keep everyone. It was amazing.

Not even two months later we had to ramp up for the holidays, so everyone that willingly cut their hours went right back to full time.

Year later the company pulled out of the state. But until that time we kept everyone.

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- siliril@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thank you for sticking up for your employees. Had a similar thing happen where I was part time for a few months until things picked up. While it was difficult I appreciated that I had an income for then. And he gave me a stellar reference for if my finances got too tight and I needed to start searching.
  
  This is why managers need to be included in firing decisions. The fact that Brittany here wasn’t able to have that dignity enrages me.
  
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- Redwax@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is this response AI generated or something? How did you keep everyone if you fired people?
  
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  - brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Fired undesirable – Kept everyone desirable
    
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  - WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Reading comprehension. Look into it.
    
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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yep HR actually stands for Human Risks.

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