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my experience is based on UBS, Fidelity, Standard Chartered, Credit Suisse - all big companies
Raised some concerns about my Line Manager to our HR Dept after they went a step-too-far with some rule breaking, by the time I'd walked back to our building HR had phoned my manager to 'dicscuss my concerns' and basically told them everything I'd said.
This is a large public sector workplace with 'Investor in People' status & basically confidentiality counted for nothing compared to corporate butt covering and 'old boy' allegiances 😥
Why does anyone choose to beceome a HR professional?
Why not finance, operations, sales, IT? Why not an area where they can earn significantly more?
I've just recently dated an HR woman for a month or so and she held both management and the 'normal' staff in equal contempt, and would do and say whatever was necessary to protect her own position. And not just at work.....
What positions did you get her into?
Why not finance, operations, sales, IT? Why not an area where they can earn significantly more?
All those area have measurable 'performance indicators' whereas HR rewards those good with the 3B's - bullying, blustering and bullshitting 👿
Why does anyone choose to beceome a HR professional?
Someone was telling me the other day that HR pays very well - don't know if that's true.
It's not true. Most places I've worked the HR director is on approx. 60% of other directors. Similar disparity, or worse, seen at all levels.
There is also a fairly high turnover in HR departments.
TSY - I tested several options, she coped well with the practical assessment and was rewarded with several merits and always a big bonus to finish off with. Sex was good too.
Every department has a negative stereotype view of every other department. It’s a bit like a school playground in here sometimes.
Finance: bean counters who have no concept of value only of cost and cannot see beyond next month’s management accounts.
IT: populated largely by men with the social skills of a piranha and an inexhaustible ability to justify spending on more IT kit because it keeps them in a job rather than creating shareholder value.
Sales & Marketing: morons who cannot see beyond their next round of drinks in whatever wine bar is fashionable today. Sales will close a deal to make their next commission check and marketing only care about how good their editorial is in Campaign and Marketing Week.
Operations: Similar people skills to IT but at least they aren’t quite as large a cost centre
... and you work in Sales for an IT based HR solution... 😆
well royally pwned etc
should have said earlier - what I have seen introduced at an (american owned) company I worked for was an externally run confidential dob in hotline...
Did not take a huge amount of time for that to filter through after introduction, and for a few well known managers to get transferred outside the business
As far as I can see HR directors are professional sycophants to the CEO and do very little other than sort out compromise agreements to pay off all the middle managers fired when the CEO decides he needs a scapegoat for whatever brain wave he had, which didn't work out. Or maybe that's just where I work 😉
... and you work in Sales for an IT based HR solution...
I'm also happily married to the woman of my dreams with a lovely healthy son.
So er I guess..go screw yourself TSY. 😀
LOL... living up to the stereotype just perfectly geetee. 10/10 for being well and truly pwned.
Picture of the wife or you're talking doo-doo!
geetee, interesting how you speak of "the line" these are people and not soul less robots.
1984 anyone.......