Has anyone actually encountered a useful one?

yes
I speak with different ones every day and there are some good ones out there
but I wouldn’t be in my job if there weren’t some bad ones too
HR is a-changing

ha.

i get fired every year. by accident. before i get my new contract. 🙄

Some of the staff in our HR department are helful but the managers are complete tools that take office politics and back-stabbing to a whole new level so basically no I haven’t found a decent HR department yet.

Hohoho, ahahahhaaaaa, hahaha, ermmmm, hahahhaaaa..

I could go on…

£’s wasted IMO.

“Jobs for the Girls” as in “jobs for the Boys”

This will be an interesting thread, shame no HR representiatives will read/comment on it..
Too busy filing thier nails and creating pointless litriture..

Ohhhh.. I’m off on one ain’t I.

Nope.

I’ve seen good and I’ve seen bad.

It’s a bit like saying has anyone found a decent IT department…

Went to see our departmental HR unit about getting a transfer out of that London back oop norf.

She said she’d look into it and set up a meeting for two weeks after the initial one.

The next meeting came round and she came up with the ground breaking suggestion that I should keep an eye on the internal company vacancy website and apply for anything suitable that came up!! No way, I wish I got paid a considerable amount of money to come up with clever $hit like that

So in answer to your question, no, not ever!!

a colleague is being made redundant, went to a consultation meeting, they offered him some other jobs, he then pointed out the vacancies had expired.

says something.

The answer is in the name; you are a resource, and will be treated accordingly.

Our one is more or less what used to be called a payroll office, they’re good at that and pretty helpful. We employ a load of students on a casual basis, with frequent tiny payments, and that must be a total pain in the a**e but they’re always very helpful with it and take even the £7 payments seriously so, that’s good.

The ones I dealt with in my own job were hilariously bad though… I applied for a job in HR, got through to interview, turned up and they said “What makes you suited for this job”. So I told them. They responded “Hmm, that doesn’t sound like this job really”. So I showed them the advert they’d posted, and it turned out it was totally wrong, they basically wanted a filing monkey but they’d manage to put it up with a £30000 annual salary, graduate preferred, experience in contract work, etc etc. I figure if a HR department can’t even succesfully advertise a job in their own team, there is no hope for them.

I always tried to be helpful and useful when I worked in one; as did all my colleagues.