What is your "HR is there to protect the company" story?
What is your "HR is there to protect the company" story?
Worked with a women from another company co-managing a trail running event. We worked catering and bar, she worked 'customer relations'. She drank on the job and would boss my staff around with nitpicking like "pick up that bottle cap that guy at that far-away table dropped on the ground" and having photographers come behind the bar to take some "action shots" during the lunch rush. By the end I had spoken to my boss about her several times and he told me to "just play nice". On the final day the main organizer came by and spoke to all of us and asked how it went and if we all got along. My boss gave me a subtle jab in the ribs and I said "yeah it was fine". She also had nothing to say. The next morning I get a phone call from HR telling me that several accusations have been levied against me from you-know-who, ranging from drinking on the job (ironic) to abusing staff and all the way down to sexual harrassment (that was low). Mind you this is now 9am on a sunday. Go in to the office for a sit down with my boss and HR. Oh and she wasn't there because she DIDN'T WORK FOR US. After half an hour of reading the essay/ email she sent at 12pm, the question finally comes. "what do you have to say for yourself?" I look at my boss who was there and whom I had spoken to several times over the course af the event, and he... looks away. So I call the other staff who worked and ask them what they saw and if there is any validity to the accusations - an all round resounding NO. HR thanks me for coming in and tells me they will look into it. A few weeks later (past payday) I ask why I haven't been paid. The reply... "oh do you still work for us?"
How is this a meme?
Wrong community I think but that's a sad story
Oh oh, I have one. So I worked in e-commerce through the pandemic, which meant I worked solo 99% of the time doing everything from web and graphic design, to packing boxes with the things ordered.
So one morning I come in, and marketing has decided we are going to send out 100+ packages of our newest product to influencers, reviewers, C-suite people etc. But it's just me and I have my delivery pick-up scheduled to come in 2 hours.
So I'm rushing around building boxes and grabbing the items, and as I come downstairs from where some of the new stuff is (nothing else is stored upstairs, just this because it was just delivered) carrying a bunch using up both hands, I missed a step and fell about 4 stairs worth. Landed hard on my knees, scrapping my legs to hell, but otherwise, luckily fine.
No one saw it, no one mentioned it, my line manager never said anything... But there were CCTV cameras. And 1 weeks later
EVERY stair railing had a sticker that read "please hold onto the hand-rail". Nevermind that I litterally couldn't while doing what they had asked of me, and absolutely no checking to see if I was ok.
I resigned and accepted a new role elsewhere 2 weeks later.