WORST HR HORROR STORIES (r/AskReddit)

hr made this baby angry what's the worst hr is not your friend story you've witnessed slash experienced hr hired consultants to run moral building employee input sessions basically saying we are not from the company you can tell us all the things you don't like about working here and would like to see changed and we'll put it all into a report for management don't worry everything is anonymous we just need material for our report and you guys get to have your say in improving things around here turns out hr and the consultants recorded all the sessions and played the highlights for management people were disciplined for criticizing the company or their immediate superiors and any shred of faith or trust in management that the employees may have had was instantly incinerated managers now complain that they don't know what's going on in their teams because nobody tells them anything i wonder why reminds me my last company hr sent out anonymous survey in doc file by ml and we should have replied back with filled blanks we figured out it's not really anonymous who sent it would literally be written in from so we filled the forms on the same machine and sent all them in single ml and hr was like wait you can't do that by anonymous i meant i will not tell boss and just aggregate data for them can't say it inspired lots of trust hr ordered me to downgrade my three excellent employee reviews to satisfactory because management didn't recognize their names i got written up for telling my employees this hr denied that they told me anything even though i had the emails from them documenting it totally worth it my employees were excellent and got the raises they deserved i saw a similar situation the company has a policy where 10 of the workers had to get bad performance reviews which meant no raise that year what the company didn't take into account is that some teams are small and hyper specialized you can imagine what happened next a bunch of crucial employees quit and that policy was cancelled but the damage was done overall i've been able to get along with hr departments with one exception i was working a help desk job for a company during college and the head of hr called in for help he was making an excel spreadsheet and couldn't figure out how to make a formula do what he wanted i offered to come take a look as we were in the same building and he told me i couldn't because the spreadsheet was full of confidential information so i asked then if he could describe what exactly he was trying to do without giving away any specific info and he told me that what he was trying to do was confidential so i clarified that he wanted me to tell him how to do something but i couldn't see it and he wouldn't even tell me what it was he was trying to do at that point he agreed that i wouldn't be able to assist him since he couldn't divulge anything as soon as we hung up he called my boss to complain that i was useless every second friday of the month people in my office would get drinks after work one time it happened to fall on my birthday because they let me pick the bar i figured i would just invite some friends there too to meet up with me after usually these drinks lasted from like 4-5 30 with my coworkers well one cow walker who was generally a bit odd stayed and sort of stuck to me and my friends i didn't really want her there but she couldn't take a hint and i was three cocktails in so i just gave up and didn't say anything one of my friends starts talking about six nothing particularly vulgar or kinky or even about our personal lives it was mainly just about the politics of sex and relationships the following tuesday i got an email from hr about having inappropriate conversations of a sexual nature with coworkers i tried to explain what happened and even though i think the person believed me and other workers corroborated my story i was written up for sexual misconduct i obviously did not want that on my record so i escalated it all the way up the company and eventually we had a four-hour meeting with a regional hr person where my coworker just cried and caved then afterwards she had a bunch of people in trouble for a toxic work environment because nobody wanted to be around her and she was never invited to any social events it was the dumbest ducking thing i've ever experienced i worked at a smallish company that grew big enough to hire a hr person her office was down from mine so in the mornings i'd swing by and say hi that turned into grabbing a cup of coffee she had just made the inter having a pastry and talking about life i found that if i mentioned someone's name in passing a few minutes later she would spill the beans about that person's life what work issues they had health issues family issues etc i learned really quick any issues i had not to take them to her she made it like six months before she got fired i went to hr to report that my team's manager was illegally shorting all of our paychecks hr's response was to adopt a new company-wide policy addressing the paycheck issue and back paying most people for a certain amount and also to frame me for work avoidance hr and it disabled part of my login account to a tool we used and then fired me a few months later after failing to fix the problem and allowing me to actually do my job they tried to deny my unemployment claim afterward told the unemployment rep that they had logs showing that i did something to break the tool i don't even have access to break in the first place they also didn't think to disable my ml access in a timely manner so i was able to back up all my mls with it documenting exactly what went down unemployment approved my claim and hit them with a major penalty to their insurance upon giving two weeks notice i get this stupid rant about millennial snowflakes how we can't take the stress of a real job and how we think we are so important and unique but in reality the only thing that would happen is that they would find another engineer to fill in for me and things would be like i never existed after the initial shock i replied whether you are absolutely correct me staying or not is meaningless consider my resignation immediate from this moment please give me the papa work to sign if i had a dollar for every boomer that called me a millennial snowflake i'd be able to buy a house in the market they destroyed at my last real job before striking out on my own i had an exit interview with the hr lady who was actually just someone who was friends with the company president who was filling in because the actual hr lady with a degree in hr and everything quit a lot of people of this place quit it was a terrible place to work with out of touch management and delusions of grandeur limping along building websites for a business niche that was mostly old people who thought the internet was magic during the exit interview she asked why i was leaving i told her i liked my coworkers a lot but hated the company she got this exasperated look and got genuinely upset and told me that she'd been getting that same line from everybody else who quit and had their exit interview recently it boggled my mind that they could hear the same thing over and over again from so many people putting in their time until they could go on to something better and not stop to think they should change something i asked my boss for a desk phone with a speakerphone function because sometimes i needed at work to conference people on the phone with people in my office we had these old yellow phones so he told me to make a request to him and cc our office manager and he'd send it to the hr department of our region via email so i put forth a nice email outlining what i'm requesting and why i need it for hr's request my office manager replies all and asks hr lazarus 870 request should i order the phone through the same channels i have used before or is there a new policy hr responded livid she demanded to know why i needed this phone it was in the email and then accused my office manager of going behind hr's back in ordering phones before without approval my office manager told my boss who called hr and shoot her out and i could hear yelling my boss came out of his office and yelled at me see what you've caused he was fired up but i know he didn't mean anything malicious by it i just laughed hr had to apologize to office manager for accusations turns out after everybody yelled their ducking lungs out for an hour the speaker phone i needed was literally free and we had boxes of them in storage i had it for a month before hr rolled out new fancy phones that were actually expensive and convoluted requiring training to set up and use at the company picnic we had to wear ducking nama tags and i had never met hr lady face to face and she came up and said oh we haven't met what's your name and i was trying to hide my name a tag but she read it and didn't seem happy to see me pulled into a meeting with two hr reps in the middle of my shift taken to this really nice boardroom which was confusing because i was just a grunt and this is literally floors above where i should ever be they sat me down and said basically what do you have to say for yourself me still confused tells them i have no idea what they are talking about everyone is really quiet and serious and i'm scared shutless and they say you know what you did this is cause for termination blah blah i'm literally thinking this is really excessive for being a few minutes late sometimes i insist i don't know what's going on one of them maybe realized something was wrong and flips open a file and says you're xx right turns out they got me mixed up with someone else who has the same name on the elevator right down by myself i was still sweating don't know what that other person did but man hr does not play

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Id: D66oW5N9ZQ4

Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2021