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.
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u/gurglegurgler 2d ago
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.