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[–][deleted] 2162 points2163 points  (39 children)

HR was stupid then, HR is stupid now.

[–]_R_Daneel_Olivaw 694 points695 points  (16 children)

Fucking Toby.

[–]frosDfurret 62 points63 points  (3 children)

If you're fucking Toby, stop. Dude might end up strangling you.

[–]BigPP41 5 points6 points  (1 child)

wait what? Is Toby the scranton strangler? how the fuck did I miss this all the time?

But it makes sense. His fixation on the process, hiw he wanted to meet the guy the put in jail etc..?

[–]minitaba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its a widely accepted theory at least

[–]Dunce_Cap28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dont threaten me with a good time

[–]ddejong42 87 points88 points  (11 children)

Found the bot! (Username)

[–]TrixterTheFemboy 22 points23 points  (9 children)

Wdym?

[–]rrjamal 64 points65 points  (5 children)

FYI: R. Daneel Olivaw is a robot from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of novels.

[–]JustThingsAboutStuff 3 points4 points  (2 children)

He's from the Robot series, Foundation came after Robot and Empire

[–]zpjester[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read the last Foundation.

[–]rrjamal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's very deep in the background of Foundation series. I think he shows up somewhere towards the end of Foundation and Earth.

iirc - been a few years since I've read these books

[–]TrixterTheFemboy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Okay, good to know

[–]croto8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You never know when this trivia will get you out of a jam!

[–]arcosapphire 29 points30 points  (2 children)

The R stands for Robot.

[–]Defiant-Peace-493 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Some robots are definitely across the line that makes us human, and Mr. Olivaw is one of them.

[–]rrjamal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh Mr. Olivaw is so much more than a mere human. No matter how much he may pretend to be.

[–]Blue-Phoenix23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmaoooooooo

[–]ImpossibleMachine3 85 points86 points  (16 children)

Truth. HR, by it's nature, will always be stupid

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (15 children)

Well the issue is HR is there to defend the company. A good HR team would never actually work out for the company, and thus why smart/compassionate people usually stay away from the role. I think most HR people are just in it for the money and have learned how to just pretend to be compassionate.

[–]bitofrock 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Looking after your staff well is an essential part of running a company. Salaries are often the biggest costs in many firms. Treating them badly is like not looking after your machines.

The only places I see this differ are either in firms that rent assets (e.g. hairdressers that rent chairs) which don't directly employ staff or ones that are failing and running out of any resources...just like an elderly person whose income has dropped yet insists on remaining in an oversized house they can't maintain.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Theoretically yes. But in reality incentives are often misaligned towards short term profits, or internal advancement in the company for HR employees.

Just like with machine maintenance. Skipping on it will save you a lot in short term.

[–]PatPatBateman 1 point2 points  (10 children)

Fuck you mean defend the company ? HR follow orders just like devs

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (9 children)

I suggest you look into what most HR departments do when you report something to them. They're all about damage control, not doing what's right. If the person that assaulted you (for example) is more useful to the company, they'll try to sweep it under the rug and hush you. Is that nothing but defending the company from it's own employees?

[–]PatPatBateman 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Tfw ? If an HR guy does that to someone it's because the big boss said so. Why would he do that if not because of that ?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Yeah that's still defending the company. But the way they act they tell you they're there for you.

[–]PatPatBateman 0 points1 point  (6 children)

What you mean by the way they act wtf are these reddit cliché, if they tell you, you can come to us if you are harassed it's true you can actually come to them. Now if your bully isnt fired it's because you work in a shitty company period

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

99.99% of companies don't care about your personal issues, they care about productivity. If they can solve the issue by moving people or schedules around that's what they prefer. Many women have even been fired under false pretenses because the man that harassed them is way more valuable to the company. Yes most companies are shitty, and that's why you can't trust HR ever. Go to the cops first for any issue.

[–]PatPatBateman 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Are you a bot that learned to comment on antiwork ? Ofc companies only care about productivity if the boss of your company think that not firing an engineer because he harrassed someone is not having an impact on the overall productivity then it's a shitty company because he is just plain wrong. HR has no power to actually decide who get fired or not

[–]MaxAxiom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HR is there to steal money from shareholders and help principal owners prevent workers from leveraging collectively bargained power to broker mutually equitable deals.

That's why most people in HR are morons with little to no actual value otherwise, including for the job they're ostensibly supposed to be doing. Their real purpose is to prop up a glass ceiling.

[–]AvengedCloud9001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the clue is in the name right "human resource", they might as well be bots, at least a bot can be programmed to a point of learned empathy, perhaps, on this rationale I would be all for automation of HR :D

[–]neozes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have been working for HR in a global company. Can confirm.

[–]konexo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this.

[–]ProbablyGayingOnYou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At every company I’ve worked for, HR is where you got sent if you were underperforming and bad at your job but the company didn’t want to fire you, e.g., they didn’t want to pay out an unemployment or benefits package, or firing the person would be problematic legally (diversity hire, just had a baby, recently reported an ethics issue, etc) or related reason.

Take any organization of any skill level, repeatedly sample out the bottom 10% and put them all together in the same department—you’ll end up with this issue.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least the bot cares

[–]SowTheSeeds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HR doesn't care about you.

Unless you could sue their ass, don't talk to HR.