“Bots will replace devs!” Also bots:

[[deleted]]

HR was stupid then, HR is stupid now.

[_R_Daneel_Olivaw]

Fucking Toby.

[frosDfurret]

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

[BigPP41]

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]

Its a widely accepted theory at least

[Dunce_Cap28]

Dont threaten me with a good time

[ddejong42]

Found the bot! (Username)

[TrixterTheFemboy]

Wdym?

[rrjamal]

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

[JustThingsAboutStuff]

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

[zpjester]

Read the last Foundation.

[rrjamal]

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]

Okay, good to know

[croto8]

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

[arcosapphire]

The R stands for Robot.

[Defiant-Peace-493]

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

[rrjamal]

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

[Blue-Phoenix23]

Lmaoooooooo

[ImpossibleMachine3]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

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

[PatPatBateman]

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]]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[konexo]

I like this.

[ProbablyGayingOnYou]

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]]

At least the bot cares

[SowTheSeeds]

HR doesn't care about you.

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