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Do, or have, any of you ever worked in HR? I'm in the training department right now, but my organization puts us under the HR blanket, and so I am part of a team that deals with differing problems with employees; fortunately I am in a consulting/brainstorming capacity, and never have to actually do the enforcement/punishment/personnel actions. I have in the past been involved in that, though.
I work for a state agency, which means that people who screw up are given a couple of chances to improve before given the boot - provided they didn't stab a coworker, drive drunk, that sort of thing. This of course requires documentation of the inapproriate act/incompetent work, and efforts to improve. MANY supervisors and managers do not even talk to employees about these problems until the very last straw has occured, then they run to HR wanting to fire someone, and are told that legally there must be accompanying paperwork, etc. Yeah, they've been a terrible employee for 10 years, but no one has ever spoken to them or written a single word about it. Then, of course, comes the bitching and blaming because "HR won't let us fire them!" This is not the only place where this has happened.
So my question is, has this kind of thing ever happened to any of you, or have you been negatively affected by it? How often? At different places? How do you resist the urge to take a flamethrower to these stupid bastards?
Do, or have, any of you ever worked in HR? I'm in the training department right now, but my organization puts us under the HR blanket, and so I am part of a team that deals with differing problems with employees; fortunately I am in a consulting/brainstorming capacity, and never have to actually do the enforcement/punishment/personnel actions. I have in the past been involved in that, though.
I work for a state agency, which means that people who screw up are given a couple of chances to improve before given the boot - provided they didn't stab a coworker, drive drunk, that sort of thing. This of course requires documentation of the inapproriate act/incompetent work, and efforts to improve. MANY supervisors and managers do not even talk to employees about these problems until the very last straw has occured, then they run to HR wanting to fire someone, and are told that legally there must be accompanying paperwork, etc. Yeah, they've been a terrible employee for 10 years, but no one has ever spoken to them or written a single word about it. Then, of course, comes the bitching and blaming because "HR won't let us fire them!" This is not the only place where this has happened.
So my question is, has this kind of thing ever happened to any of you, or have you been negatively affected by it? How often? At different places? How do you resist the urge to take a flamethrower to these stupid bastards?
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