The other day I saw a post that said, "HR isn't your friend." It was written by an HR professional. It went something like this: "They represent the company's interests. Their job is to ensure the company runs smoothly. The company's interests sometimes align with yours, and sometimes they don't. But the HR professional will still do according to the company's interests because she gets her salary from the company ... So, to sum it up: HR isn't your friend, but it isn't your enemy either."
That's just relativizing, bullshit, and nonsense. HR tries to downplay their mistakes, their fake science; they think that if they talk down to people and treat everyone like idiots, they'll be proven right. Hell, no. I'm not buying that bullshit.
HR is the department in the company that "handles" firings. Anyone who's been fired in a despicable way knows exactly what HR is like and what they really do. There's no question about it.
To the clowns working in HR, here's the news: soon there will be more of us who can see than of you who are blind. Maybe there are already more of us. The ones who've been fired. The ones who can see. As opposed to the blind ones who'll swallow anything HR feeds them, any manipulation, any bullshit, because their well-paid asses have always been kissed, and they've never been fired by anyone.
Have you ever noticed? When a company is doing badly, it's never the manager's fault. Everyone else is to blame for the terrible results - except them. You have to find someone else, point the finger at them, scream and shout that they're the ones to blame, and they're the reason the company isn't doing well, and then fire them. Managers do this because they know exactly that they are the ones responsible for the company's declining performance, so in a logical and fair world, they're the ones who should be fired.
But that never happens. It's always the people at the very bottom of the organization who get fired first.
There's no logic to this at all. HR and their fake psychology came up with this, they're pushing it, and that's why it's happening. This is how they protect "the managers". How many people have been fired, take this year as an example?
The whole thing is a shameful, despicable manipulation.
What they're doing is inhumane, unjust, illogical, and serves no economic purpose whatsoever. If you want to save costs, you cut the biggest expenses first. Who earns more: the manager or the entry-level employee?
If a company is doing poorly, it's the manager's fault. He took on the responsibility, and his salary is high enough that he'll be able to get by even if they kick him out onto the street (which they never do by the way).
White-collar workers at the bottom of the organization are in the worst position. Blue-collar workers will still find a job faster than a white-collar worker who's been laid off from the lowest level. It's not uncommon for blue-collar workers - who can't be replaced by robots - to earn more than I did as a low-level white-collar employee, for example.
So when injustice - a rotten thing whose source, instrument, and executor is HR - strikes, it always hits the unfortunate white-collar or blue-collar workers at the very bottom of the hierarchy.
Since there are more than a few lingerie salespeople, and other “overqualified” individuals among HR professionals, it's not even worth wasting any more words on them. Deciding people's fates as a lingerie salesperson - despicable.
You, the panty salesperson, decide that he's going to be unemployed for a year just because you don't like his mustache. Because you don't like his age. Because you don't like that he wears glasses. Because you don't like that he knows this software better than you do.
Nine out of ten HR people have no idea that they're shaping people's lives, making decisions about them — and they have no right to do so. Not in my world, for fuck's sake.
Don't you get it, you know-it-all HR folks? You're ruining people's lives, pushing them to the edge of a cliff, and then shoving them off. There's no excuse for that.
So no, HR really isn't your friend. HR is management's friend; it does everything for them and serves them like a circus monkey. That's why HR can't be anything other than the enemy of sub-management-level employees.
This unit carries out management's orders, which, by definition, cannot be good for any of the subordinates.
Employee well-being and all that other bullshit they feed you - it's manipulation. They're manipulating you to lull you to sleep, to make you complacent, so you don't notice a thing. They're working against you behind the scenes. They won't hesitate to fire you next time, either. The “paperwork” was already done the moment you walked into your workplace.