My company is 13 people big. HR is the wife of the owner/president/CEO. 💀
While a meme, yes. I’m an ex-boss and I’ll happily verify that HR works for the company. The function is, “within what the company needs, keep employees happy and content”, sure - but at the slightest conflict between company needs and HR needs it’s the company needs that matter.
This isn’t really supposed to be a secret, but I think we don’t talk about it openly enough since every time a discussion like this pops up I see people who have misunderstood the function of HR.
… now what might be a bit more of a secret is how closely companies work together with the unions. Let’s just say I’ve never seen any real union pushback.
I think its not a secret but its just not how HR is presented to employees. Its presented as the group where you go when you have a problems with someone. Unfortunately HR may see the person complaining as the problem if its in the companys best interest.
I have never went to HR and never will. They tend to have very fake employees in that group as well. People who act like they are friendly but they wont back you up when needed.
As a manager you have a better chance of getting what you want from HR since you are more important to the company.
I work in a union and this shit happens there too.
Unions are great and a bad union is better than no union (imo) but if people go into a union job thinking all the problems with modern work culture will be solved by it they’ll just walk away jaded and disappointed.
Agreed. It’s very helpful, and useful, but it doesn’t turn work into some magic utopia. People are still people.
