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minor things that make you fume

Methuselah said:
In the 1960's we only had 'Personnel Departments'. HR started growing in the 1970's. I remember saying at the time, that bureaucracy and incompetence would be the outcome.
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Was later than that. I had meetings with Personnel Depts when I started work in the late 1980's. That said, you wernt wrong.
 
roydo said:
Was later than that. I had meetings with Personnel Depts when I started work in the late 1980's. That said, you wernt wrong.
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Yes, fair enough. I am only going by my experience when I worked for a Unilever company. The personnel department was taken over by a guy who changed the name to Human Resources. Within a very short space of time the size of the HR department had doubled and he was grabbing powers from all over. Had many a row with this guy but always managed to keep him at arms length. This all happened during the 1970's.
 

Toast said:
Kids schools finishing term on different days.

One lad finished today, two others don't finish until Tuesday.

Pain in the arse.
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With our eldest two, they went to primary schools that were completely separate for infant and juniors (different heads, admission policies and governors) etc.

This was even though they had the same name, you almost automatically progress from one to the other and are around a two minute walk away from each other.

Anyway, the two headteachers actively dislike each other so many of the holidays didn't match up: finish on different days for summer; June totally different weeks.

It was a complete ball ache every year as you couldn't get one set of cover and had to somehow juggle it, all because of their egos - well one of them.
 
zzr45 said:
HR woman at work being a general disaster.

She’s managed to annoy a recruitment company to the point they’ve just won a £5k settlement in court.

I’ve had to pay massive lumps out of the past 3 pay checks to cover my pension which she forgot to enroll me on 18 months ago.

In a strop because she’s been told she needs to cut back on spending on agencies (claims not to use them but sitting across from her and know how many get used)

Won’t actually write up proper job descriptions, meaning people have no clue what’s going on. Means we can’t advertise any job descriptions either. In a tizz because higher ups in the company are telling her what to do.

One of those proper useless people that claims to always be busy, but makes mountains out of molehills.
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One of ours is totally incompetent.

A woman I manage has been off ‘sick’ since last October and it’s been handled very badly. The HR person sent a letter to her in my name stating she had been off from x date to y date but got the dates completely wrong. In fact I think the date she said she had been off from was a date in the future.

Had to send a fairly strongly worded email to her saying I hadn’t authorised it and for her not to do it again. You’d think HR of all departments would use a bit of due diligence.
 
Baines' left foot said:
One of ours is totally incompetent.

A woman I manage has been off ‘sick’ since last October and it’s been handled very badly. The HR person sent a letter to her in my name stating she had been off from x date to y date but got the dates completely wrong. In fact I think the date she said she had been off from was a date in the future.

Had to send a fairly strongly worded email to her saying I hadn’t authorised it and for her not to do it again. You’d think HR of all departments would use a bit of due diligence.
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Glad you've packed in the steroids.
 

We recently spent about £8k servicing the air conditioning in the office and yet every time they’re turned on some moron turns them off and just open all the windows instead. Then they complain it’s too hot??? I can’t work with these people.
 
Baines' left foot said:
One of ours is totally incompetent.

A woman I manage has been off ‘sick’ since last October and it’s been handled very badly. The HR person sent a letter to her in my name stating she had been off from x date to y date but got the dates completely wrong. In fact I think the date she said she had been off from was a date in the future.

Had to send a fairly strongly worded email to her saying I hadn’t authorised it and for her not to do it again. You’d think HR of all departments would use a bit of due diligence.
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In my last place HR would routinely conduct sensitive discussions in front of the whole office. If somebody got a speeding fine on their company car she'd be straight up to their desk demanding to know all the details in front of everyone.

There was one guy who was being 'managed out' in such a cack-handed way (I thought being a devious sod was a job requirement in HR) that they advertised his job with one word changed in the title and when he found out told him they did it by accident.
 
colleague I share an office with won't have air coniditioning on in 30 degree heat because it "makes her sick". Last week was under 20 and she had all the windows open. It was 'kin freezing. Bizarre behaviour. Meanwhile my armpits are like running taps
 

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