I joked about the Work Conference day after hotel breakfast, where people were hung over as they ate. Told workmate how I almost missed bacon and hash browns. Guy across room, who didn’t go, puts in complaint I was being racist because he heard “brown” and “Bacon” but nothing else we’d said. The guy didn’t like me because I shut workplace chatter because I didn’t want to hear a supposedly religious person tell me about the girls he’s cheating on his wife with. I Should have reported that early encounter ( I have to train newbie in pair) We don’t have much of an HR Boss had to do something but knew I’d go to corporate if it was permanent damage so they got creative. I had to have a racial / religion tolerance talk from the most boomer MF there ... I refused to sign paper and nobody talks about how I wasted two hours wrote “In dispute refuse to sign until reports corrected” told him rebook and went to lunch.
17:29 - You can't sue unless you have a crap-ton of evidence to support your allegations. Trust me - they will make up something that counters that excellent performance review, and you'll never win.
Always have proof and save records if emails and any other documentation before you report someone to HR in any company no matter what. This way if you are suddenly terminated by said employer out of no were. You have all you need to file a lawsuit against said company for an easy win without much trouble.
company accidentally double paid everyone. I reported the discrepancy, saving them from finding out way too late after the fact since it happened in early january. the person responsible for it blamed someone else and had it out for me after that and I was gone a couple months later. she was gone about a month later, but too late for me.
@@g0414 Something more messed up: I was a top performer, so after that person was fired, I reached out to a high ranking person and asked if I could come back on a trial basis. She had me re-apply only to say there were no openings. I then applied under another name and email, was told they badly needed someone, and hired to work remotely. Talk about outrageous. I then watched the company go down in a quiet smother. Clients started leaving and people on the inside confirmed there wasn't any work to do. A year later I wrote a GlassDoor review about how I worked there incognito and they didn't even notice. And that they hired me to be their main ad writer in French and German, but never checked to see if I spoke those languages. They must have paid GlassDoor to hide it bc it was gone after a couple months.
It's already illegal. Unions just don't give a damn anymore because they're in bed with politicians and corporations who can just pay them off. Strikes don't help either, they can fire you on the spot.
I wouldn’t go that far, but I do think employees deserve equally skilled (aka compensated) legal representation. It’s a sham that corporations have entire HR depts and a team of lawyers, while employees have… … not that
I work in asset management. I realized fairly early on that HR has the same level of empathy toward workers that I do toward physical assets. I use and maintain them for their intended purpose, but if it makes better engineering or monetary sense to replace or remove it, it's gone. THAT is how HR sees people.
At one of my old jobs my G.M. admitted that he was discouraged from giving ANY of his employees an "excellent" review or a 5 out of 5, because H.R. claimed that acknowledging hard work would make those employees suddenly lazy and they wouldn't keep going above and beyond with their tasks. Surprise, surprise, when I was told that I qualified for a 5 out of 5 but it wouldn't be made official and thus my pay raise was denied, I got lazy because my hard work was being taken advantage of. :) G.M. told H.R. exactly WHY I was suddenly just doing my job, otherwise known as "acting my wage" and their response was for him to cut my hours. It didn't last a week because they realized I was the ONLY employee who was actually doing anything in a timely manner and the store was a wreck in just a few days! I never got my raise, but I did finally get told that I was an excellent employee and deserved proper acknowledgement. I went and got a new job anyway.
The manipulating employee ratings really gets me…I manage a very good team where I work, and I have “forced reviews”…meaning 10% of my team has to get the lowest rating, regardless of how they do. Like the dude in the video, I also told my team this, but couldn’t get in trouble as our CEO made an announcement once so I can reference that to defend myself.
well i had a supervisor job and i had an a guy that i feel earned a 100% on his yearly review and H.R. sent it back saying no one can have over a 90%....i talked to my boss and he basically said thats just the way it was and it was best not to get into a pissing match with H.R.
I started working as a service manager at a Firestone late August this year. Due to a congenital medical condition, I struggle to stay on my feet for long periods. I contacted HR about a sedentary position via ADA, went to my doctor to have the paperwork completed, and sent it to HR within the allotted time. I was fired Monday because they refused to offer a sedentary job, despite them having call centers for store credit cards, and they do their recruiting from obvious office-type environments. Currently seeking legal counsel to file a wrongful termination suit - "at-will" doesn't apply when the termination can be considered discriminatory.
Thank you for going after them. I’ve been fired from other companies in similar circumstances but because I was young and dumb, I didn’t go after them legally. I just stewed in my anger, then pushed it aside and got another job. Thank you for showing them that they can’t do this to us.
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. I've had my fair share of workplace trainings over the last couple of years and companies. One thing they try to throw you off with is the "at-will" clause. That doesn't apply when you're termination is due to/based on a discriminatory act or premise. That includes age, race/ethnicity, gender/sexual preference, and disability. I didn't want it to come to this, but what they did is both morally reprehensible and very much illegal.
Lawyer found, and waiting for her to finish some research on punitive damages and send a letter of demand for me to approve before sending it to Bridgestone. Interview for new job elsewhere is tomorrow.
A place I used to work at had a lot of issues. Missing screws on hinges, leaking roof, broiler that took 3 hours to get lit, stained ceiling tiles, etc. All stuff that looked bad when cooking food. I was told to get a screwdriver and fix it then. One week it rained 5 times, I cut and replaced 20+ tiles 5 times that week while doing my normal work. Every time I replaced a set of tiles it would rain and then the boss would get mad saying I didn't replace them. I quit when they gave me a bucket of tar and told me to climb up on the roof. I was a cashier.
I got a write up for not hitting the proper production rate after being told the wrong quote that I need to hit despite hitting that wrong quota on a coaching. Was told that I need to understand the rates
A former friend, who works HR, once told me that the sole purpose of HR is to keep the company from being sued. So hearing these HR people breaking laws is astounding.
Left my last job when I couldn’t put up with my supervisor’s shit anymore. Caused me a lot of anxiety whenever he’d belittle me in front of the whole office and HR said that I just had to get used to his attitude. As my psychologist said of them “fuck them”
I worked at a skilled nursing facility as my first job after earning my nurse assistant certification in California. I was summoned for jury duty and informed my HR rep as was company policy. I let them know that the trial was expected to last one work week (five days,) which I also mentioned in the notice. I included all the proper paperwork. I worked a steady shift that consisted of Thursday Through Sunday, with Monday through Wednesday off. So, all I was really missing from work were two days to fulfill my legal obligation to the court. My shift was the overnight shift. I came into work Saturday night at 11:00 PM and was told by the charge nurse that the HR person had instructed her to send me home and I was not to return to work until the following Thursday, due to my supposedly having been absent without calling in (no call-no show.) The following Monday I made a special trip in during the day to speak with the person I had informed who had accused me of the no call-no show and was told she had "forgotten." When I went over her head to to try and get some compensation for lost wages, I was told that it was not management's fault the misunderstanding occurred. I never got a damned cent back from the two lost days I was suspended for due to attending court. Honestly, looking back, I should have sued them.
I was shoved into a med cart by a male nurse and was reporting the nurse to HR at the end of the shift.They told me that a family member saw me getting groped by a female nurse (I'm a 🌈 male) during our shift change report while I was bent over going through a med chart. They were upset that I didn't report the groping and I told them I was getting to that after reporting that guy. They have cameras all over that hospital. They fired me... said the cameras weren't working. It broke me inside.
You might want to talk to a lawyer. Although it’d be hard to prove discrimination (as this stinks of homophobia), firing someone for “failing” (even though they didn’t give you chance to) to report harassment that happened to you sounds like wrongful termination.
Get written statements from the coworkers who saw it and sue the company. No one should be harassed at work. Companies who cover this stuff up should be sued. If you don't, more people will go on to be harassed. I know it's harder for guys. My sister and a male coworker were being s-xually harassed by their bis-xual boss at a big hotel chain. They documented incidents and reported to hr. Hr didn't do anything, so they sued. My sister was awarded more money than her male coworker, but they had agreed to split whatever the settlement was.
If genders were switched, what happened to you would have been unethical and immediately unfair to everyone. I would look into a lawyer with one caveat. My mom was going to sue a hospital once ,and the hospital paid the lawyer off. Make sure you know if they have integrity before getting a lawyer.
What’s amusing is that, for most of these stories, it’s HR doing their jobs badly. Yes, HR is not your friend. They are there to treat Humans like a Resource, it’s right there in the name, something like coal or gas. Their entire purpose is to protect the company… which is what makes these stories so emblematic of how bad a job that HR is doing, because they’re exposing the company to penalties and problems, not protecting them. Again, HR is not your friend, do not trust HR, they exist to protect the company. But HR, competently done, doesn’t generally do shit like this because it gets the companies fined and destroys productivity!
As someone who works in a local government HR team, I will never understand why for-profit businesses have such horrible HR teams and are trigger happy when firing people. Seriously, do you know how long it takes to hire a replacement, let alone on short notice? You need to advertise for the position, shortlist and interview applicants, undertake referee checks which can take days or weeks of phone tag and that's not even mentioning how police checks can take months if a new applicant has a common name. Then you need to onboard them which requires them to provide superfund evidence, tax file numbers and tons of other information, which can take even longer because most people leave it to the last minute creating a bigger workload for HR. And in big organisations you need to do this while dancing around dozens of other recruitment campaigns. Plus the fact that if you fire someone and they have even the tiniest proof it was a unfair dismissal, Fairwork will be on your ass and they don't play nice.
I heard from a recruiter that it costs a company about half a years salary of a new employee to find him and train him for his job until he is as effective as the old one. So the one month salary for the recruiter isnt that much. And in addition, government positions are not that attractive any more. Oftentimes they do not offer competetive pay and have a bad reputation.
I have rarely dealt with an HR person who wasn’t notorious for making up policy with no law or fact to support it. Generally when asked for guidance, they are wrong
This isn't the worst thing in the world, but I usually carry a pocket knife. Its pretty common for me to carry a Swiss army knife and an opinel no. 10. The SAK is a general purpose knife, the opinel is for food. Someone reported me to hr after seeing me use the opinel to cut up an apple and stir my coffee. They threatened to fire me over that.
Wow, this makes me very glad about what I do for a living. I deliver caravans and cars as an interstate truck driver and work my own schedule. Very laid back and casual. Cruise along the highway listening to music or podcasts without any politics or bullshit. I could never work a regular type job again
Re: the company who hired consultants to interview employees and write a report on their findings for management….a local company did something similar. They had group meetings throughout the day so employees could discuss issues. “Don’t be afraid to tell us anything” they said…..with the directors of the facility sitting right beside them glaring at the staff. Yeah, no way anyone is opening their mouth to speak up…finally during a break, someone pulled the consultants aside and said “we’re not talking until the directors leave the room”. “Why?” “Because they’re toxic.”
That one about where the guy reported a pay issue: What they did after is a blatant case of retaliation. He should have sued them for retaliation as they got rid of him after saving their asses from getting criminally prosecuted.
In a temp job I had a few years ago, the HR department consisted of 2 girls who regularly went out drinking on work nights and came in hungover the next morning. I wasn't a fan of them at all for various reasons- just a few examples being- regularly misplacing my time sheet which they were supposed to email to my temp agency so that I could paid and then denying I even gave it to them, one of them laughing quite nastily in my face and called me boring because a group of us were having a casual conversation and I mentioned I don't really drink alcohol much because I don't see the appeal, and finally I decided to put myself forward for a permanent position in the company that had opened, so emailed HR and asked for an application form, which they emailed to me after giving me unsolicited advice about her not thinking I'd be suitable for the role (she barely knew me or what I did). Needless to say, I wasn't too upset when one of them was fired for incompetence, and even less upset when I was let go as they no longer needed a temp- I'd had enough of the whole company by that point.
My wife needing assistance during pregnancy and having 4 different doctor's notes to have my schedule changed to be with her and hr saying that's not the schedule you were hired for and gave me a $4 pay cut. Our son was premature and had to have an emergency c section so I called out to be with my new family....hr called the next day and asked when I was coming in and suffice to say....I quit a week later and found a much better job
Poster that refused to sign off on shipments with "Dangerous" materials if in any European or North American country should report them to their local Department of Transportation. Believe me they will very quickly lose way more than 250K as the fines are 100K and jailtime for EACH violation. Violations of Hazardous Material Transportation Regulations are not taken lightly, you may get a wink and a nod for Logbook, speeding, or minor maintenance violations but Haz-Mat is one of two instant crash and burn violations. The second is substances that alter your ability to safely operate a vehicle either in you or your vehicle. Booze can be in your trailer but not in the cab or sleeper.
HR people are the kind of folks who will cause a month long lockdown and whip out the electric chair because some guy said an off color joke to one colleague, but the minute someone reports any SA, they grab a cup of coffee and a bagel and pretend they didn’t hear anything.
I had a recent one, 2022. I applied to a new civil service, full time security position: overnight hours 🚔, ■■■■■ city employment. Applied with a veteran 🎗 preference, hiring. Based on my 4yr, active duty during a war/combat period as defined by OPM, EEOC. I included my military DD214 📑. A city Human Resources, employment office worker emailed me saying I did NOT meet the basic 2yr security work history. I explained twice that I had a valid security license, since 2000 & I provided my Army MP DD214: 4yr. I re-did my security resume with a older security position(not working) & the city HR staff approved my security officer application! 🤔
I was working at an Amazon warehouse for about a year. Boring work, but after a year you get a lot of benefits and the opportunity to be promoted to a lot of positions with good pay. Two weeks before my eligibility, I slip and fall on ice in a non work-related injury. Sucked hard. This is where it gets fun. Local HR tells me that I can file for medical leave, and until it’s approved I can use vacation days. Sigh. Run out of vacation days. No way to contact local HR without being there physically. Walk in, say there’s nothing they can do if it hasn’t been approved yet, force me to work but with a dingy helmet on. Corporate HR calls local supervisor, saying “WTH are you doing he can’t work with a head injury! Go home!” Yay few weeks vacation basically, whoop whoop. I can’t be clocked back in anymore until the paperwork is all done, but they’re dragging their feet on it, so I twiddle my thumbs for a while. I get a call back later saying that because I clocked in *during* the time that I was applying for leave, my paperwork is screwed and my leave was disapproved. Officially, I have now taken an “unannounced” 3 week vacation and was being asked to leave before I was fired. No promotion. No job. I don’t regret leaving that place but gosh my HR department screwed me out of a lot of money from the position I had my eye on plus healthcare and them paying for my school. There were so many benefits I’ve gotten to wondering if they just used this opportunity to get rid of me so they didn’t have to pay out.
My HR rep constantly lied. Basically anytime she opened her mouth it was a lie. I got brought into a meeting and she yelled at me randomly to stop lying (probably should've called her boss then and there) then a few months later was fired for taking my break at the end of shift (I never got a break ever as I had no time, I'd work through my "break") and just went on break due to how their productivity metric worked to try and save my numbers
20:45 "If I had a dollar for every boomer that called me a millennial snowflake, I'd be able to buy a house in the market they destroyed." - u/Phil-Michaels 👏👏👏
The girl at the bakery who was getting stalked.. that shit happened to me too. But when I didn’t accept his advancements, he’d call me a bitch. When I finally quit, I had worked at the bakery for 3 years, I called HR and told them everything. You know what they said? That there’s no proof so my word meant nothing. Come to find out the guy had sexual harassment charges against him, as well as being fired from other jobs for doing what he did to me. He left the bakery after I did, went to a new store and got fired after 3 months for sexual harassment. It’s been like 6 years and I still can’t believe that it happened. But the best part? The store I had worked at closed down for never making money and getting so many compliments about how horrible upper management was. And I make sure to tell people what happened and what store it was since it’s a family owned business in the county I live in. Suckers.
HR Is the only reason I was able to go back to work after my coworkers were doing illegal activity. Any time I tell my manager I'll call HR, she leaves me alone.
My workplace has both HR and Union to put into perspective if HR wont do something about an issue Union will and they will bring the hammer down on the issue and whoever was supposed to handle it
That's when you start looking for a job outside that location, and then hit them with it once you have one. You'll have to fill my position either way, do you want me to remain at the company, or just leave it?
that's your queue to start looking for another job just in case. the best variatino of this is them openly admitting that they cant fill your current position: this is basically free leverage ot demand a proper raise ot match the importance of the job.
5:03 My job did this and im fairly certain like 12-14 across the two daytime shifts from temps to longtime experiences employees were summarily fired. It’s a dirty tactic and I hate it. Also I was fired in the same way as the person in the first story was. Minus being confused for other person. Was walked out in front of everyone as a show and lost a lot of dignity as a man.
As a person who works in HR. There are two types. 1 where HR is ruled by the higher ups and 2 where HR can actually do what they need to do. 2 usually works better because HR is affected by employee satisfaction.
When I told them I couldnt do overnight stays for client training as my cat was dying, I was asked could I take the cat with me to hotel rooms until he dies .... HR are not your friend
They just make it sound like they don't know what pets and family or things literally everybody including them has had throughout their life are. "Oh there's a problem? Well just ignore problem/carry problem with you just get on with your job why are you quitting."
@@Roadent1241 exactly! They even googled my cats condition and tried to tell me I was lying 🤣 I offered them to speak to my vet directly, so glad I don't work for them now, I was transferred to a sister company where they care thankfully!
I once worked with a bitter old man who was lazy and rude all day, everyday, for no reason. He would regularly refuse to work with me, call me names and deride me for being young. In addition to this, he made constant sexist and racist comments towards various other coworkers and was involved in numerous incidents and investigations due to repeated HR complaints from multiple different employees. He was never fired, so of course he did not change his behavior once it became clear to him that he could get away with it. I endured three years of this and had never myself received any sort of disciplinary action or complaints to HR for my own behavior. I regularly received glowing reports from my supervisors and fellow workers, all while dealing with this jerk in the background. I finally stood up for myself one day and reported him again that same day, while also filing a complaint against HR themselves for not enforcing their "Zero Tolerance Policy" on an abusive coworker. They gave me my first and only write up that I ever had at that job. Didn't last too much longer after that.
our worksite celebrated black history month with the usual memorials and what have you, although this year HR decided to add an extra: Coloring.....i kid you not they had caricatures of famous people from well.....black history......only problem was there were no regulations on HOW you could color them. so you could take martin luther king jr, and color him white. a black co-worker complained to HR about it, and how racially insensitive she felt the whole coloring thing was (as some people were coloring these historical figures as white people) and the HR guy said this "we were conscious of our decision, this is what we decided to do." literally blowing her off. another instance involved me directly: our worksite implemented a "new" off site policy (IE if you were off the clock you were technically not allowed to be in the building or on the property that the building sat on for any reason whatso ever, barring a "reasonable" window, like waiting for your ride.) So i try to read the policy and i get greeted with something like "you did not provide an ADA posture token, and cannot view this webpage" i tried it on different phones and computers with the same result, and was told that you had to be logged onto the corporate internet too see the policy. So i got to HR and complain that its not right to enforce a policy that casual people can't see. He blew me off with a "Well, its a period of transition for you. We'll let it slide, but if it keeps up we'll take more formal action." basically threatening to write me up for not following a policy i can't look at.
@@Flesh_Wizard yeah, its been a while now (they first introduced the policy in augest) and ever since i brought up that people can't read it........they haven't actually been enforcing it, probably due to some legal loophole that someone can use against them.
Had a guy at my current job who verbally and physically assaulted multiple people. Complaints were made to HR but nothing ever happened. The guy was put on furlough during the pandemic and then never seen again. From what I understand he left of his own accord rather than being let go. It was such bs. There was plenty of evidence of this guy going after people when he didn't get what he wanted. Literal witnesses to each situation and it always brushed under the rug. He worked in Marketing and was a real brown noser to his boss and a shit head to everyone else. Absolutely incompetent at his job so it wasn't even like you could argue he was causing the company thrive. I genuinely wondered at times if his family had some connections to the company. There are tons of other stories about upper management being less than professional or just being down right abusive but that was the most blatant one I could think of. Mean while some poor shmuck turns up 5min late to his shift and is handed a pink slip in no time flat. It's ridiculous.
HR at my company had to deal with guy’s complaining about overhead doors be open . Only one guy had an issue . HR came out and this fire ball of a woman told said employe to work it out amongst your selves . Your grown men you can work it out . And he should move to a machine away from the door .
I reported the Director of my Department for stealing my personal belongings -- said Director admitted the same to me, but said they weren't returning my property, either. HR fired me the next day. HR is *not* there to help you, they are there to maintain the "good corporate face" that the executive team decides upon
I live in a country that isn't as litigious as the USA, or corrupt for that matter, and HR, while not being your friend, is generally not your enemy. Or at least understands the value of good moral and long term employees to the bottom line. The companies where this isn't true are normally multinationals that are owned in other countries (usually the USA) and they haemorrhage good workers to the companies that treat people with respect.
The company is not your friend, the management is not your friend, your coworkers are not your friends. Your workplace is not a family.......oh wait, they'll screw you over if you give them half a chance. That last one might be true.
Haha yea I got chatty with IT once, they can read your emails, your social media, they can see EVERYTHING, they can remote log into your machine from their office and sit back with popcorn as they watch everything click every letter typed, consider the work computer your enemy, use your phone if you really have to bludge!
You knew this from being in school beforehand because they also have an IT team, I assumed? (Sure I really learned it when I had to go to see them about a locked-out account, and it was hilarious when they later remoted into a classmate's computer and started writing to her in a word doc, making her scream in the library. Can't remember what she was doing to encourage that but it was funny. They didn't have any problems with my multitasking colouring pics in paint/reading comics while waiting for BBC Revision Games to load the next question during exam season though because there'd be 2-5 minutes inbetween for some dumb reason XD Even during class when we were told to just Revise. No reaction whatsoever. Can't blame me for getting bored waiting to do what I was told. Dunno why BBC's servers were so slow.) Also what's bludge?
@@Roadent1241 lol the girl screaming when they remotely wrote on a word doc lol that's funny, yea i found out in my first job from chatting to IT there, but I also remember doing a course and saw them log into and move the mouse around and do stuff remotely on unused computers, i also had talks with a teacher once in a course said they can see everything you are doing if they log into your pc from their teacher machine they caught someone playing games once they just kept shutting the app down, recently found out your learning institution can also remotely see what tabs you have open in your browser and anything you are looking at on the net while you are logged into their schooling system - while on your own computer at home!!! scary. apparently to combat cheating, there's no privacy, and bludge is to be lazy do nothing :D
@@magicimaginations I didn't think you could log in at home, I assumed it was separate confined systems XD Our home browsing is none of their beeswax, who cares if I enjoy Newgrounds at home? XD Ah, thank you.
If you have problems at work, unless you plan on sueing, just get another job. Once you complain, the clock is ticking on how long you will keep your job.
This isn't guaranteed. I'm in a union shop and I've seen and heard many things similar to these stories. Even with union representation, workers are just too powerless.
So, basically in school they teach you to "work hard and do the right thing." In the real world though, it's more like "do the bare minimum and mind your own business."
I don't think it's, "HR is not your friend," as much as it's, "The company[1] is not your friend." [1] ..that insists is a "family". I wish they'd stop that. Until I get a comfortable salary and a functional health plan, I'm hardly even employed.
Don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure saying a survey is completely anonymous but then telling the boss who said what is grounds for a Fraud lawsuit, or some kind of privacy law violation
It's basically just a compilation of people learning the hard way to never trust HR with anything. Everyone should know this. But they don't. And it's sad because this should be common knowledge by now that HR protects the company you work at, not the workers themselves.
Just see the title and think, "is it really surprising?" HR is to be treated as a hostile entity until proved otherwise. Some of them are awesome people and some are more petty than a spoiled rich kid who's been told they can't have something.
Buddy of mine got fired for something his brother did because management mixed up their names They had to rehire him and give him back all his saved pto
Maybe it's because I'm using an earphone and not my hearing-aid (yes I'm HoH which doesn't help) today, but I can't hear any music? The computer's up at basically full blast because it needs to be. Is this just me being HoH and using the R earphone?
A little over half of these are actionable in a legal sense...probably less than 10% are real, sadly. Interestingly enough, the one with the HR lady trying to power trip over the CEO is probably the most likely to be real, just because it sounds like something that a person with a few screws loose would do.
One of the prerequisites for being in HR is being a psychopath.
They're the grown up version of the kid who liked being hall monitors waaay to much
Or sociopath
@@jasonrustmann7535are we?
@@TheMusicalElitist yes. It goes from "Billy was running in the halls!" To,
"Robert told a problematic joke!".
No one likes either of these
And being heartless, coldblooded woman.
When you tell a joke at work so funny, the HR department want to hear it too.
I did one of those once; and HR came up to me and was like “What the hell, man?” And I never got in trouble.
I joked about the Work Conference day after hotel breakfast, where people were hung over as they ate. Told workmate how I almost missed bacon and hash browns.
Guy across room, who didn’t go, puts in complaint I was being racist because he heard “brown” and “Bacon” but nothing else we’d said.
The guy didn’t like me because I shut workplace chatter because I didn’t want to hear a supposedly religious person tell me about the girls he’s cheating on his wife with. I Should have reported that early encounter ( I have to train newbie in pair)
We don’t have much of an HR
Boss had to do something but knew I’d go to corporate if it was permanent damage so they got creative.
I had to have a racial / religion tolerance talk from the most boomer MF there ... I refused to sign paper and nobody talks about how I wasted two hours wrote “In dispute refuse to sign until reports corrected” told him rebook and went to lunch.
@@mykodd I don't think anyone could waste your bosses time, anymore efficiently than they are doing so themselves.
@@seanhuds7351 true
17:29 - You can't sue unless you have a crap-ton of evidence to support your allegations. Trust me - they will make up something that counters that excellent performance review, and you'll never win.
Always have proof and save records if emails and any other documentation before you report someone to HR in any company no matter what. This way if you are suddenly terminated by said employer out of no were. You have all you need to file a lawsuit against said company for an easy win without much trouble.
just make sure you can legally save records some places have laws that will get you in trouble for recording or saving files that are not yours.
company accidentally double paid everyone. I reported the discrepancy, saving them from finding out way too late after the fact since it happened in early january.
the person responsible for it blamed someone else and had it out for me after that and I was gone a couple months later.
she was gone about a month later, but too late for me.
Wow that's messed up.
@@g0414
Something more messed up: I was a top performer, so after that person was fired, I reached out to a high ranking person and asked if I could come back on a trial basis.
She had me re-apply only to say there were no openings. I then applied under another name and email, was told they badly needed someone, and hired to work remotely.
Talk about outrageous.
I then watched the company go down in a quiet smother. Clients started leaving and people on the inside confirmed there wasn't any work to do.
A year later I wrote a GlassDoor review about how I worked there incognito and they didn't even notice. And that they hired me to be their main ad writer in French and German, but never checked to see if I spoke those languages. They must have paid GlassDoor to hide it bc it was gone after a couple months.
I had same problem but I managed to still get my case to tribunal as I proved they made me wait 3 months before calling me in
retaliating against employees should be a trillion dollar fine
I think it is a crime but not that severe
It's already illegal. Unions just don't give a damn anymore because they're in bed with politicians and corporations who can just pay them off. Strikes don't help either, they can fire you on the spot.
I wouldn’t go that far, but I do think employees deserve equally skilled (aka compensated) legal representation. It’s a sham that corporations have entire HR depts and a team of lawyers, while employees have… … not that
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I work in asset management. I realized fairly early on that HR has the same level of empathy toward workers that I do toward physical assets. I use and maintain them for their intended purpose, but if it makes better engineering or monetary sense to replace or remove it, it's gone.
THAT is how HR sees people.
HR should be illegal
At one of my old jobs my G.M. admitted that he was discouraged from giving ANY of his employees an "excellent" review or a 5 out of 5, because H.R. claimed that acknowledging hard work would make those employees suddenly lazy and they wouldn't keep going above and beyond with their tasks.
Surprise, surprise, when I was told that I qualified for a 5 out of 5 but it wouldn't be made official and thus my pay raise was denied, I got lazy because my hard work was being taken advantage of. :) G.M. told H.R. exactly WHY I was suddenly just doing my job, otherwise known as "acting my wage" and their response was for him to cut my hours. It didn't last a week because they realized I was the ONLY employee who was actually doing anything in a timely manner and the store was a wreck in just a few days!
I never got my raise, but I did finally get told that I was an excellent employee and deserved proper acknowledgement. I went and got a new job anyway.
The manipulating employee ratings really gets me…I manage a very good team where I work, and I have “forced reviews”…meaning 10% of my team has to get the lowest rating, regardless of how they do. Like the dude in the video, I also told my team this, but couldn’t get in trouble as our CEO made an announcement once so I can reference that to defend myself.
well i had a supervisor job and i had an a guy that i feel earned a 100% on his yearly review and H.R. sent it back saying no one can have over a 90%....i talked to my boss and he basically said thats just the way it was and it was best not to get into a pissing match with H.R.
I started working as a service manager at a Firestone late August this year. Due to a congenital medical condition, I struggle to stay on my feet for long periods. I contacted HR about a sedentary position via ADA, went to my doctor to have the paperwork completed, and sent it to HR within the allotted time. I was fired Monday because they refused to offer a sedentary job, despite them having call centers for store credit cards, and they do their recruiting from obvious office-type environments. Currently seeking legal counsel to file a wrongful termination suit - "at-will" doesn't apply when the termination can be considered discriminatory.
Thank you for going after them. I’ve been fired from other companies in similar circumstances but because I was young and dumb, I didn’t go after them legally. I just stewed in my anger, then pushed it aside and got another job.
Thank you for showing them that they can’t do this to us.
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. I've had my fair share of workplace trainings over the last couple of years and companies. One thing they try to throw you off with is the "at-will" clause. That doesn't apply when you're termination is due to/based on a discriminatory act or premise. That includes age, race/ethnicity, gender/sexual preference, and disability. I didn't want it to come to this, but what they did is both morally reprehensible and very much illegal.
Please be sure to edit this with updates! I love hearing stories of HR getting their comeuppance!
Lawyer found, and waiting for her to finish some research on punitive damages and send a letter of demand for me to approve before sending it to Bridgestone. Interview for new job elsewhere is tomorrow.
A place I used to work at had a lot of issues. Missing screws on hinges, leaking roof, broiler that took 3 hours to get lit, stained ceiling tiles, etc. All stuff that looked bad when cooking food. I was told to get a screwdriver and fix it then. One week it rained 5 times, I cut and replaced 20+ tiles 5 times that week while doing my normal work. Every time I replaced a set of tiles it would rain and then the boss would get mad saying I didn't replace them. I quit when they gave me a bucket of tar and told me to climb up on the roof. I was a cashier.
I made the HR lady cry let’s just say I don’t take BS from no superior or not
I got a write up for not hitting the proper production rate after being told the wrong quote that I need to hit despite hitting that wrong quota on a coaching. Was told that I need to understand the rates
Screw relying on HR. Join a Union, and keep those in that Union accountable to those they serve.
A former friend, who works HR, once told me that the sole purpose of HR is to keep the company from being sued. So hearing these HR people breaking laws is astounding.
Left my last job when I couldn’t put up with my supervisor’s shit anymore. Caused me a lot of anxiety whenever he’d belittle me in front of the whole office and HR said that I just had to get used to his attitude. As my psychologist said of them “fuck them”
I worked at a skilled nursing facility as my first job after earning my nurse assistant certification in California. I was summoned for jury duty and informed my HR rep as was company policy. I let them know that the trial was expected to last one work week (five days,) which I also mentioned in the notice. I included all the proper paperwork. I worked a steady shift that consisted of Thursday Through Sunday, with Monday through Wednesday off. So, all I was really missing from work were two days to fulfill my legal obligation to the court. My shift was the overnight shift. I came into work Saturday night at 11:00 PM and was told by the charge nurse that the HR person had instructed her to send me home and I was not to return to work until the following Thursday, due to my supposedly having been absent without calling in (no call-no show.) The following Monday I made a special trip in during the day to speak with the person I had informed who had accused me of the no call-no show and was told she had "forgotten." When I went over her head to to try and get some compensation for lost wages, I was told that it was not management's fault the misunderstanding occurred. I never got a damned cent back from the two lost days I was suspended for due to attending court. Honestly, looking back, I should have sued them.
I was shoved into a med cart by a male nurse and was reporting the nurse to HR at the end of the shift.They told me that a family member saw me getting groped by a female nurse (I'm a 🌈 male) during our shift change report while I was bent over going through a med chart. They were upset that I didn't report the groping and I told them I was getting to that after reporting that guy. They have cameras all over that hospital. They fired me... said the cameras weren't working. It broke me inside.
You might want to talk to a lawyer. Although it’d be hard to prove discrimination (as this stinks of homophobia), firing someone for “failing” (even though they didn’t give you chance to) to report harassment that happened to you sounds like wrongful termination.
Get written statements from the coworkers who saw it and sue the company. No one should be harassed at work. Companies who cover this stuff up should be sued. If you don't, more people will go on to be harassed.
I know it's harder for guys. My sister and a male coworker were being s-xually harassed by their bis-xual boss at a big hotel chain. They documented incidents and reported to hr. Hr didn't do anything, so they sued. My sister was awarded more money than her male coworker, but they had agreed to split whatever the settlement was.
If genders were switched, what happened to you would have been unethical and immediately unfair to everyone. I would look into a lawyer with one caveat. My mom was going to sue a hospital once ,and the hospital paid the lawyer off. Make sure you know if they have integrity before getting a lawyer.
Yeah, never trust people. They're all abusive garbage.
What’s amusing is that, for most of these stories, it’s HR doing their jobs badly.
Yes, HR is not your friend. They are there to treat Humans like a Resource, it’s right there in the name, something like coal or gas. Their entire purpose is to protect the company… which is what makes these stories so emblematic of how bad a job that HR is doing, because they’re exposing the company to penalties and problems, not protecting them.
Again, HR is not your friend, do not trust HR, they exist to protect the company. But HR, competently done, doesn’t generally do shit like this because it gets the companies fined and destroys productivity!
Okay Sharon.
First one was hilarious. Those are the people in HR. Amazing.
theres a reason why HR is called "Human Resources"..because they see employees as resources instead of individuals
As someone who works in a local government HR team, I will never understand why for-profit businesses have such horrible HR teams and are trigger happy when firing people. Seriously, do you know how long it takes to hire a replacement, let alone on short notice?
You need to advertise for the position, shortlist and interview applicants, undertake referee checks which can take days or weeks of phone tag and that's not even mentioning how police checks can take months if a new applicant has a common name.
Then you need to onboard them which requires them to provide superfund evidence, tax file numbers and tons of other information, which can take even longer because most people leave it to the last minute creating a bigger workload for HR.
And in big organisations you need to do this while dancing around dozens of other recruitment campaigns.
Plus the fact that if you fire someone and they have even the tiniest proof it was a unfair dismissal, Fairwork will be on your ass and they don't play nice.
No problem, they'll save money by dumping that person's duties onto the other workers. Might even just not replace them at all.
I heard from a recruiter that it costs a company about half a years salary of a new employee to find him and train him for his job until he is as effective as the old one. So the one month salary for the recruiter isnt that much.
And in addition, government positions are not that attractive any more. Oftentimes they do not offer competetive pay and have a bad reputation.
I tell you HR are like members of the mafia or something. Same intimidation, just without the physical torture.
I have rarely dealt with an HR person who wasn’t notorious for making up policy with no law or fact to support it. Generally when asked for guidance, they are wrong
HR is there to protect the company from the employees.
This isn't the worst thing in the world, but I usually carry a pocket knife. Its pretty common for me to carry a Swiss army knife and an opinel no. 10. The SAK is a general purpose knife, the opinel is for food.
Someone reported me to hr after seeing me use the opinel to cut up an apple and stir my coffee. They threatened to fire me over that.
Wow, this makes me very glad about what I do for a living. I deliver caravans and cars as an interstate truck driver and work my own schedule. Very laid back and casual. Cruise along the highway listening to music or podcasts without any politics or bullshit. I could never work a regular type job again
4:44 the fact they said literally figuratively is just hilarious to me😂
Re: the company who hired consultants to interview employees and write a report on their findings for management….a local company did something similar. They had group meetings throughout the day so employees could discuss issues. “Don’t be afraid to tell us anything” they said…..with the directors of the facility sitting right beside them glaring at the staff. Yeah, no way anyone is opening their mouth to speak up…finally during a break, someone pulled the consultants aside and said “we’re not talking until the directors leave the room”. “Why?” “Because they’re toxic.”
Hmm. HR can be you best friends, or your worst damn nightmare
Stalker story: this is where pepper spray comes in handy.
That one about where the guy reported a pay issue:
What they did after is a blatant case of retaliation. He should have sued them for retaliation as they got rid of him after saving their asses from getting criminally prosecuted.
In a temp job I had a few years ago, the HR department consisted of 2 girls who regularly went out drinking on work nights and came in hungover the next morning. I wasn't a fan of them at all for various reasons- just a few examples being- regularly misplacing my time sheet which they were supposed to email to my temp agency so that I could paid and then denying I even gave it to them, one of them laughing quite nastily in my face and called me boring because a group of us were having a casual conversation and I mentioned I don't really drink alcohol much because I don't see the appeal, and finally I decided to put myself forward for a permanent position in the company that had opened, so emailed HR and asked for an application form, which they emailed to me after giving me unsolicited advice about her not thinking I'd be suitable for the role (she barely knew me or what I did).
Needless to say, I wasn't too upset when one of them was fired for incompetence, and even less upset when I was let go as they no longer needed a temp- I'd had enough of the whole company by that point.
My wife needing assistance during pregnancy and having 4 different doctor's notes to have my schedule changed to be with her and hr saying that's not the schedule you were hired for and gave me a $4 pay cut. Our son was premature and had to have an emergency c section so I called out to be with my new family....hr called the next day and asked when I was coming in and suffice to say....I quit a week later and found a much better job
Poster that refused to sign off on shipments with "Dangerous" materials if in any European or North American country should report them to their local Department of Transportation. Believe me they will very quickly lose way more than 250K as the fines are 100K and jailtime for EACH violation.
Violations of Hazardous Material Transportation Regulations are not taken lightly, you may get a wink and a nod for Logbook, speeding, or minor maintenance violations but Haz-Mat is one of two instant crash and burn violations.
The second is substances that alter your ability to safely operate a vehicle either in you or your vehicle.
Booze can be in your trailer but not in the cab or sleeper.
HR people are the kind of folks who will cause a month long lockdown and whip out the electric chair because some guy said an off color joke to one colleague, but the minute someone reports any SA, they grab a cup of coffee and a bagel and pretend they didn’t hear anything.
SA?
@@noblej7897 s*xu*l a**ault
I had a recent one, 2022. I applied to a new civil service, full time security position: overnight hours 🚔, ■■■■■ city employment. Applied with a veteran 🎗 preference, hiring. Based on my 4yr, active duty during a war/combat period as defined by OPM, EEOC. I included my military DD214 📑. A city Human Resources, employment office worker emailed me saying I did NOT meet the basic 2yr security work history. I explained twice that I had a valid security license, since 2000 & I provided my Army MP DD214: 4yr. I re-did my security resume with a older security position(not working) & the city HR staff approved my security officer application! 🤔
If hazmat isn't being properly reported, anonymously tip off the Feds. The hammer will come down so hard and fast that it isn't funny
I was working at an Amazon warehouse for about a year. Boring work, but after a year you get a lot of benefits and the opportunity to be promoted to a lot of positions with good pay.
Two weeks before my eligibility, I slip and fall on ice in a non work-related injury. Sucked hard. This is where it gets fun.
Local HR tells me that I can file for medical leave, and until it’s approved I can use vacation days. Sigh.
Run out of vacation days. No way to contact local HR without being there physically. Walk in, say there’s nothing they can do if it hasn’t been approved yet, force me to work but with a dingy helmet on.
Corporate HR calls local supervisor, saying “WTH are you doing he can’t work with a head injury! Go home!”
Yay few weeks vacation basically, whoop whoop. I can’t be clocked back in anymore until the paperwork is all done, but they’re dragging their feet on it, so I twiddle my thumbs for a while.
I get a call back later saying that because I clocked in *during* the time that I was applying for leave, my paperwork is screwed and my leave was disapproved. Officially, I have now taken an “unannounced” 3 week vacation and was being asked to leave before I was fired.
No promotion. No job.
I don’t regret leaving that place but gosh my HR department screwed me out of a lot of money from the position I had my eye on plus healthcare and them paying for my school. There were so many benefits I’ve gotten to wondering if they just used this opportunity to get rid of me so they didn’t have to pay out.
My HR rep constantly lied. Basically anytime she opened her mouth it was a lie. I got brought into a meeting and she yelled at me randomly to stop lying (probably should've called her boss then and there) then a few months later was fired for taking my break at the end of shift (I never got a break ever as I had no time, I'd work through my "break") and just went on break due to how their productivity metric worked to try and save my numbers
20:45 "If I had a dollar for every boomer that called me a millennial snowflake, I'd be able to buy a house in the market they destroyed." - u/Phil-Michaels 👏👏👏
One company I worked for the HR line was out of service and they failed to provide you with the new one
The girl at the bakery who was getting stalked.. that shit happened to me too. But when I didn’t accept his advancements, he’d call me a bitch. When I finally quit, I had worked at the bakery for 3 years, I called HR and told them everything. You know what they said? That there’s no proof so my word meant nothing. Come to find out the guy had sexual harassment charges against him, as well as being fired from other jobs for doing what he did to me. He left the bakery after I did, went to a new store and got fired after 3 months for sexual harassment.
It’s been like 6 years and I still can’t believe that it happened. But the best part? The store I had worked at closed down for never making money and getting so many compliments about how horrible upper management was. And I make sure to tell people what happened and what store it was since it’s a family owned business in the county I live in. Suckers.
Pretty sure the devil is an HR manager
and his little demons are his employees
HR Is the only reason I was able to go back to work after my coworkers were doing illegal activity.
Any time I tell my manager I'll call HR, she leaves me alone.
That's a thing HR can be your biggest friend or your worst enemy knowing between those guys
My company's HR was everyone's friend. She did, unfortunately, just leave this passing Friday.
My workplace has both HR and Union to put into perspective if HR wont do something about an issue Union will and they will bring the hammer down on the issue and whoever was supposed to handle it
Had an HR person tell me she couldn't give me a position because they do not want to have to fill my current position
That's when you start looking for a job outside that location, and then hit them with it once you have one. You'll have to fill my position either way, do you want me to remain at the company, or just leave it?
that's your queue to start looking for another job just in case.
the best variatino of this is them openly admitting that they cant fill your current position: this is basically free leverage ot demand a proper raise ot match the importance of the job.
@@Teixas666 indeed also denying a possible promotion based on them not wanting to fill your current position is also just a bit illegal
HR is only your friend when you have an unstoppable case against them, and they don't want to ruin the company reputation imo
5:03
My job did this and im fairly certain like 12-14 across the two daytime shifts from temps to longtime experiences employees were summarily fired.
It’s a dirty tactic and I hate it.
Also I was fired in the same way as the person in the first story was. Minus being confused for other person. Was walked out in front of everyone as a show and lost a lot of dignity as a man.
21:30 Because companies need to *Appear* to be understanding, non-toxic and inclusive... and depending on the country it's less taxes.
Never tell HR anything that can be used against you.
As a person who works in HR. There are two types. 1 where HR is ruled by the higher ups and 2 where HR can actually do what they need to do. 2 usually works better because HR is affected by employee satisfaction.
Got laid off today, the perfect video. HR was not my friend.
The best way to tell HR to pound sand is to be an independent contractor. Left corporate 15 years ago and never looked back.
Exit interviews. OMG. Last chance for corporate to screw you. What're they gonna do if you don't go? Fire you?
When I told them I couldnt do overnight stays for client training as my cat was dying, I was asked could I take the cat with me to hotel rooms until he dies .... HR are not your friend
They just make it sound like they don't know what pets and family or things literally everybody including them has had throughout their life are.
"Oh there's a problem? Well just ignore problem/carry problem with you just get on with your job why are you quitting."
@@Roadent1241 exactly! They even googled my cats condition and tried to tell me I was lying 🤣 I offered them to speak to my vet directly, so glad I don't work for them now, I was transferred to a sister company where they care thankfully!
Wage Theft is probably the biggest reason for "quiet quitting". If someone isn't getting paid to do extra, they won't do extra.
I once worked with a bitter old man who was lazy and rude all day, everyday, for no reason. He would regularly refuse to work with me, call me names and deride me for being young.
In addition to this, he made constant sexist and racist comments towards various other coworkers and was involved in numerous incidents and investigations due to repeated HR complaints from multiple different employees. He was never fired, so of course he did not change his behavior once it became clear to him that he could get away with it.
I endured three years of this and had never myself received any sort of disciplinary action or complaints to HR for my own behavior. I regularly received glowing reports from my supervisors and fellow workers, all while dealing with this jerk in the background.
I finally stood up for myself one day and reported him again that same day, while also filing a complaint against HR themselves for not enforcing their "Zero Tolerance Policy" on an abusive coworker.
They gave me my first and only write up that I ever had at that job. Didn't last too much longer after that.
our worksite celebrated black history month with the usual memorials and what have you, although this year HR decided to add an extra: Coloring.....i kid you not they had caricatures of famous people from well.....black history......only problem was there were no regulations on HOW you could color them. so you could take martin luther king jr, and color him white. a black co-worker complained to HR about it, and how racially insensitive she felt the whole coloring thing was (as some people were coloring these historical figures as white people) and the HR guy said this "we were conscious of our decision, this is what we decided to do." literally blowing her off.
another instance involved me directly: our worksite implemented a "new" off site policy (IE if you were off the clock you were technically not allowed to be in the building or on the property that the building sat on for any reason whatso ever, barring a "reasonable" window, like waiting for your ride.) So i try to read the policy and i get greeted with something like "you did not provide an ADA posture token, and cannot view this webpage" i tried it on different phones and computers with the same result, and was told that you had to be logged onto the corporate internet too see the policy. So i got to HR and complain that its not right to enforce a policy that casual people can't see. He blew me off with a "Well, its a period of transition for you. We'll let it slide, but if it keeps up we'll take more formal action." basically threatening to write me up for not following a policy i can't look at.
First one was hilarious, second one was just plain evil. They probably are lazy as hell and don't want to set it up properly
@@Flesh_Wizard yeah, its been a while now (they first introduced the policy in augest) and ever since i brought up that people can't read it........they haven't actually been enforcing it, probably due to some legal loophole that someone can use against them.
16:21 It annoys me SO MUCH when someone does a TLDR and then writes a freaking novel.
Had a guy at my current job who verbally and physically assaulted multiple people. Complaints were made to HR but nothing ever happened. The guy was put on furlough during the pandemic and then never seen again. From what I understand he left of his own accord rather than being let go.
It was such bs. There was plenty of evidence of this guy going after people when he didn't get what he wanted. Literal witnesses to each situation and it always brushed under the rug. He worked in Marketing and was a real brown noser to his boss and a shit head to everyone else. Absolutely incompetent at his job so it wasn't even like you could argue he was causing the company thrive. I genuinely wondered at times if his family had some connections to the company.
There are tons of other stories about upper management being less than professional or just being down right abusive but that was the most blatant one I could think of. Mean while some poor shmuck turns up 5min late to his shift and is handed a pink slip in no time flat. It's ridiculous.
HR at my company had to deal with guy’s complaining about overhead doors be open . Only one guy had an issue . HR came out and this fire ball of a woman told said employe to work it out amongst your selves . Your grown men you can work it out . And he should move to a machine away from the door .
so many of these can be lawsuits but no one ever sues
I reported the Director of my Department for stealing my personal belongings -- said Director admitted the same to me, but said they weren't returning my property, either. HR fired me the next day.
HR is *not* there to help you, they are there to maintain the "good corporate face" that the executive team decides upon
HR is there to protect the company and not the employees. Always remember this when you go to HR to complain about anything to do with the company.
Remember kids just because you drink with your co-workers doesn’t mean you’re friends
I live in a country that isn't as litigious as the USA, or corrupt for that matter, and HR, while not being your friend, is generally not your enemy. Or at least understands the value of good moral and long term employees to the bottom line. The companies where this isn't true are normally multinationals that are owned in other countries (usually the USA) and they haemorrhage good workers to the companies that treat people with respect.
The company is not your friend, the management is not your friend, your coworkers are not your friends. Your workplace is not a family.......oh wait, they'll screw you over if you give them half a chance. That last one might be true.
In business school I learned that HR is where all the losers end up.
Haha yea I got chatty with IT once, they can read your emails, your social media, they can see EVERYTHING, they can remote log into your machine from their office and sit back with popcorn as they watch everything click every letter typed, consider the work computer your enemy, use your phone if you really have to bludge!
This should be common sense. Can't believe people don't know this. Of course IT can monitor what you do on a work computer.
You knew this from being in school beforehand because they also have an IT team, I assumed?
(Sure I really learned it when I had to go to see them about a locked-out account, and it was hilarious when they later remoted into a classmate's computer and started writing to her in a word doc, making her scream in the library. Can't remember what she was doing to encourage that but it was funny.
They didn't have any problems with my multitasking colouring pics in paint/reading comics while waiting for BBC Revision Games to load the next question during exam season though because there'd be 2-5 minutes inbetween for some dumb reason XD Even during class when we were told to just Revise. No reaction whatsoever. Can't blame me for getting bored waiting to do what I was told. Dunno why BBC's servers were so slow.)
Also what's bludge?
@@Roadent1241 lol the girl screaming when they remotely wrote on a word doc lol that's funny, yea i found out in my first job from chatting to IT there, but I also remember doing a course and saw them log into and move the mouse around and do stuff remotely on unused computers, i also had talks with a teacher once in a course said they can see everything you are doing if they log into your pc from their teacher machine they caught someone playing games once they just kept shutting the app down, recently found out your learning institution can also remotely see what tabs you have open in your browser and anything you are looking at on the net while you are logged into their schooling system - while on your own computer at home!!! scary. apparently to combat cheating, there's no privacy, and bludge is to be lazy do nothing :D
@@magicimaginations I didn't think you could log in at home, I assumed it was separate confined systems XD
Our home browsing is none of their beeswax, who cares if I enjoy Newgrounds at home? XD
Ah, thank you.
I'm so glad I don't live in the US, these stories are absolutely horrific
If you have problems at work, unless you plan on sueing, just get another job. Once you complain, the clock is ticking on how long you will keep your job.
Gotta love USAA
NO ONE IS YOUR FRIEND AT WORK. PERIOD !!!
Seriously USAA insurance is amazing ive had it for 12 years now and ill propably never change it
Everyone needs to join a union. All these problems would never happen to members
This isn't guaranteed. I'm in a union shop and I've seen and heard many things similar to these stories. Even with union representation, workers are just too powerless.
All the union does is add your union rep to the list of people who decide to fire you for political reasons.
@@PalladinPoker and take your dues money
I never got as much attention from my union as when I quit my job - due to harrassment they did nothing about - and stopped paying union fees.
So, basically in school they teach you to "work hard and do the right thing." In the real world though, it's more like "do the bare minimum and mind your own business."
Sandra from IKO, if you see this, freak you...i feel better now.
I don't think it's, "HR is not your friend," as much as it's, "The company[1] is not your friend."
[1] ..that insists is a "family". I wish they'd stop that. Until I get a comfortable salary and a functional health plan, I'm hardly even employed.
I would like to have a lawyer present.
Don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure saying a survey is completely anonymous but then telling the boss who said what is grounds for a Fraud lawsuit, or some kind of privacy law violation
16:20 TLDR was still TLDR
HR is important, but what powerful work group is keeping an eye on them?
It's basically just a compilation of people learning the hard way to never trust HR with anything. Everyone should know this. But they don't. And it's sad because this should be common knowledge by now that HR protects the company you work at, not the workers themselves.
People need to understand that HR works for the company, not you. It may be called 'Human Resources,' but there is nothing human about it.
Per Boomer’s , Boomer’s, GenXer’s OWE YOU NOTHING SNOWFLAKES .
if you bundled up half of these you would have a clear picture how it is to work at Lyreco.
Sounds like the time I worked for Serco
Worst company, horrible managers
“I work at a company…” biggest red flag for bullshit stories is the complete lack of details. Most of Reddit is just Neets
Just see the title and think, "is it really surprising?"
HR is to be treated as a hostile entity until proved otherwise. Some of them are awesome people and some are more petty than a spoiled rich kid who's been told they can't have something.
So you're just re-uploading old stuff huh?
I didn't realize, so I guess that is too bad for old members
Or long time members
😂😂😂😂 love all the comments here
I don't know who's worse, union bosses or HR
Who in the hell would be leave they are?!?
Pam from HR? You work in kansas too lol
Buddy of mine got fired for something his brother did because management mixed up their names
They had to rehire him and give him back all his saved pto
The music in this video is easily 2x louder than it needs to be
Maybe it's because I'm using an earphone and not my hearing-aid (yes I'm HoH which doesn't help) today, but I can't hear any music? The computer's up at basically full blast because it needs to be.
Is this just me being HoH and using the R earphone?
Why do we even have H.R. if they are so bad?
God dammit Kathy!!!L lol
A little over half of these are actionable in a legal sense...probably less than 10% are real, sadly. Interestingly enough, the one with the HR lady trying to power trip over the CEO is probably the most likely to be real, just because it sounds like something that a person with a few screws loose would do.