HR exists to insulate people with real authority in a business from those who suffer from their whims. In a lot of companies, your job is to get yelled at so some ghoulish C level executive isn’t forced to strain their neurons processing the emotional reality of the fact that their decisions impact real people in negative ways. It might disrupt their “objectivity” and make it harder to issue layoffs next time.
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alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months agoHR do the execs’ dirty work.
Shame you’re not intelligent enough to realize that. I guess that’s why you work in HR. Don’t be their scapegoat. It’s literally that simple.
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s basically customer service for employees.
dabu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, if you’re working for that company in any other role your purpose is to serve the rich assholes anyway.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Better yet, get a job in HR and sabotage the company from the inside!
Though, the reality is that most menial HR jobs are like any other menial non-decision maker jobs, in any other area of the business, so your argument is just as applicable to, and just as disingenuous, for most roles in any business — e.g. like arguing janitor’s at EvilCorp are complicit class traitors because they enrich EvilCorp and facilitate it’s success.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. Most jobs do not directly involve enacting bad worker related decisions.
An engineer will never, ever come in and fire you for some made up reason. HR will.
You are conflating the fact that HR does not need to exist like the jobs that do the actual work need to exist. They are not the same. Ever.
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Wouldn’t that also apply to engineers working for those rich asshole? Because there are a lot of engineers working for rich assholes here who like to trash HR, starting with me.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. What? HR does company dirty work. Engineers do actual work. What the fuck is the relation there??
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
They both prostitute themselves to serve the rich to get more money even though they are educated enough to have the freedom to choose whom to work for.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ahh yes, and Marx wasn’t a real socialist because he sold books for money… You are choosing to miss the very obvious nuance and that is incredibly stupid to choose to do.
fushuan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Anyone in the company is serving the rich assholes fucking everyone else over. All the money they are producing goes to the rich assholes.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Just don’t get a job in HR and no one can get fired. It’s that easy guys.
HR is a legitimate job and serves and important purpose in the structure of a company. You can’t dismiss it by saying their purpose is to serve rich assholes because that’s the purpose of every job at a company. That’s work, that’s most jobs.
owen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Except HR’s entire purpose is to insulate management. They’re not exactly producing anything
Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Production of goods is not relevant at all there are plenty of valid jobs that do not produce anything. Having an HR department in a large company allows other departments to focus on what they are good at and have HR handle all the employee contracts, hiring, firing, complaints, performance reviews, leave etc.
owen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
All those tasks you listed are really the responsibility of management. HR is basically the grease between the decisions of upper management and the reactions of the lowly prawns