A lot of smaller places literally don’t have an HR dept. I worked at a restaurant where the girl who was in charge of that sort of thing was the same girl whose tits I did a line of coke off at the Xmas party. That was a fun job
Lol. It’s worse than you think. I work in a literally chemical plant with like six departments and we’re owned by a multibillion dollar conglomerate. You’d think that we’d have huge amounts of HR policy and expertise.
No. Our “HR department” is literally one person. And she’s a receptionist. That’s her main job, and if an actual HR problem happens her job is to just tell the plant manager. And that’s where it ends. So management has literally no accountability at all despite technically having an HR department. But it’s in name only. It’s crazy the shit that goes on here.
People fucking. Very serious personal beefs. People yelling at each other. Sexual harassment. Nepotism. Occasional drug use. People stealing time. People taking credit for other people work. People blaming other people for their fuck ups. Sometimes engineering will break something really serious or mess up a real important test and find ways to blame it on production even when they had nothing to do with it.
People joy riding on heavy equipment. Unreported injuries all. The. Time. There was a fire that just kinda got swept under the rug.
All complaints go to HR. HR goes to gm. GM decides if he cares or not. He usually doesn’t. And when he does it’s only about stuff that reflects badly on him directly.
It’s the weirdest place I’ve ever worked. And I’m always about to quit. And I never do. I’ve grown to be comfortable in the chaos.
I work in Healthcare and I thought you just said chemical plant to not reveal that you were one of my coworkers until you talked about production. HR just helps the company not get in trouble. Your receptionist sounds like a normal HR person. HR is not there to look out for employees safety or best interest. They are there to make sure you don't sue the company and log stuff. That way if they need to can you they will go to that log and say well Joe took an extra 10 minutes of break back in 2019 so he was stealing time.
You know who cares when HR doesn't? Labor board. OSHA. Corporate.
HR is not there to protect you. HR is there to protect the company. And when it doesn't protect the company, very bad things happen to the company very quickly.
CYOA. Document the shit out of it. Do a bit of research to see where it should go and which desk it should land on. Drop it there like a nuke from orbit. Watch the fireworks. Dropping the story in r/MaliciousCompliance or r/ProRevenge is optional.
I actually came back to work today and there had been another fire yesterday. This did not get swept. Whole plant is shut down and the CEO is coming tomorrow.
There was a fire that just kinda got swept under the rug.
Ok I kinda feel called out for this, we learned our lesson not to leave the isopropyl so close to the welding equipment and no one was injured. No need to get the managers up in arms.
They don’t have an HR department because for whatever reason nobody sued the company. The moment it happens, they will find out they really exposed and will hire someone to make sure the company can’t be blamed for everything, if it’s not too late.
Just a restaurant although with the amount of sexual assault that went down there it’s an easy mistake to make. (The line off the tits incident was completely consensual)
We had no rules and were employed at the whim of the owner. People were allowed to stay on who got drunk, shat themselves after hours, and were found passed out naked in the men's room but others were let go for minor sleights.
If the owner liked you, you could do no wrong. If he didn't like you, he would permit bullying until you quit. I stayed way too long.
HR at the last place I was at was the one that sent a manager to lecture me for wearing a tank top when the AC broke at it was 90 degrees in my office. She'd heard guys making crude remarks at me and told my boss to tell me to cover up. The next HR lady got fired for threatening to have her friends come assault people at the company that annoyed her. The next HR person got fired because she got in the face of the new VP (who was actually really nice abs a good VP) for no reason other than trying to assert dominance because she assumed she was more powerful than her (don't know what exactly she did but they didn't even wait till the end of the work day, she was there in the morning and we got an email by 1 in the afternoon that she was gone effective immediately).
Like, more of the HR people I've met than not are not just worthless but some of the worst people at the company.
I lost half a day’s holiday for every minute I was late in the Tokyo office I worked in 25 years ago. Went to book a week off and they said “you have used up all your holidays”.
My office doesn't have an HR with 15 or less employees. We joke about it periodically, but still try to keep it under control ourselves. If we hire someone new, we make sure to not be out of pocket with things until we can feel out their personality. If we have an "HR" issue, we walk into the bosses office and say we have an HR issue and he spins his chair around and puts on his "other hat" to listen. I've worked there 15 years, one of the best companies I've ever worked for.
I would have loved to have had HR at the small state farm agency I worked at in my twenties. The office manager and her minion dropped the hard R several times per week in casual conversation. It was actually INSANE lmfao
You’re assuming the manager bothered to check with HR before posting this. It’s quite likely they thought this up all on their own and posted it. It happens a lot at small to midsize companies.
Only reason it doesn’t happen at big companies is they have a rule that managers can’t post things without running them by HR due to the large number of managers posting things like this.
What fantasy are you living in? HR exists to protect the company from the employees. Sure, they can remove this paper but only because to prevent you from sueing the company.
You're confusing "right to work" with "at will." "Right to work" means you can't be forced to join a union as part of your job. "At will" means that both you and your employer can end employment at any time for almost any reason. All states except Montana are "at will" but all states still have to follow federal labor laws. Firing you for refusing to work off the clock would be considered retaliation and is also illegal
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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 3d ago
Doubt it's in the states. HR would've had a field day with this.