what is it with HR???

[Boudica]

Get an interview with the beeb on tuesday, tell HR I am a student and need to have Mondays off. HR woman goes into great detail and asks questions, I think she is clear I need Monday's off. She comes back with details of interview, I say 'they know I need Mondays off?' HR woman says I don't know. Anyway after faffing around and about 25 emails later, the answer is no, I can't have Mondays off. HR woman says 'do you still want to go through with the interview'

FFS!!!

HR = Hardly Responding

[VBScab]

You got an interview with the Beeb? Which one of your relatives swung that?

[MarillionFan]

Get an interview with the beeb on tuesday, tell HR I am a student and need to have Mondays off. HR woman goes into great detail and asks questions, I think she is clear I need Monday's off. She comes back with details of interview, I say 'they know I need Mondays off?' HR woman says I don't know. Anyway after faffing around and about 25 emails later, the answer is no, I can't have Mondays off. HR woman says 'do you still want to go through with the interview'

FFS!!!

HR = Hardly Responding

You don't want to work at the Beeb. Absolute tossers, real tossers, worst tossers ever, never met such a bunch of tossers, with tosser outsourcing companies, and tosser project managers who toss about then terminate your tossing contract without so much as a toss!!!!

I remember you tosser PM!!!!! My time will come. IT WILL COME!!!!!

MF in ('Not bitter') Mode

[alreadypacked]

You don't want to work at the Beeb. Absolute tossers, real tossers, worst tossers ever, never met such a bunch of tossers, with tosser outsourcing companies, and tosser project managers who toss about then terminate your tossing contract without so much as a toss!!!!

I remember you tosser PM!!!!! My time will come. IT WILL COME!!!!!

MF in ('Not bitter') Mode

I went to see them once, got the impression the project was a "Death March", decided I didn't want to waste 3 years of my life, no matter how good the rate was.

[Mich the Tester]

I have never seen a useful HR department in all my working life. I can’t figure out what they’re for.

Likewise; ‘internal communications’ departments, ‘test expertise centres (usually staffed by people who can’t set up a times tables test, never mind a software test), and ‘lean six sigma blackbelts’, who are usually about 5’6”, overweight and full of tulip.

[Churchill]

I have never seen a useful HR department in all my working life. I can’t figure out what they’re for.

They're in place to prevent management from f**king up too badly when they boot someone out.

[Mich the Tester]

They're in place to prevent management from f**king up too badly when they boot someone out.

In other words, the management are too f**king incompetent to motivate people to do a good job and then to f**king incompetent to get rid of people properly when that doesn’t work.

[Boudica]

i don't imagine beeb is a great place to work, just wanted a bit of cash. ho hum. still can't believe HR woman would send me knowing or not bothering to find out if they could accomodate me or not. madness. maybe she just needed to fill her quota...

[Mich the Tester]

i don't imagine beeb is a great place to work, just wanted a bit of cash. ho hum. still can't believe HR woman would send me knowing or not bothering to find out if they could accomodate me or not. madness. maybe she just needed to fill her quota...

Yep. Modern corporate management = fulfill your KPIs without engaging your brain, regardless of whether it actually contributes to the aims of the organization.

[Sysman]

They're in place to prevent management from f**king up too badly when they boot someone out.

There's a lot of truth in that.

Sysman's Tip Of The Day:
If you see HR expanding, large scale redundancies are on the way!

(A lot of paperwork is involved, and a fair bit of government money is to be claimed.)