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I just graduated from college and started working a job but I got an offer letter from another job that pays 14% more, I like the company Iβm at right now and want to stay, but I also want to make more money at the other big name company. I donβt know if I should go to HR to see if I can increase my salary. Btw I negotiated my salary for the company Iβm at right now. What should I do??
Way back when i was in College I worked at a National retailer that sadly is now defunct. It was a caollege Co-op job, and I sent a semester gaining work experience and cash as well as a grade for working the jib. I did incoming merchandise recieving, inspection, and pricing. During this time it was near Christmas Holiday. This was back when Video games were becoming huge and so we recieved over 300 units per delivery. I was a little anal in that I liked out the price tag on the front of the box so the customer didn't have to wrestled these large boxs around to find the price sticker. At fiirst I thought it might a glitch but out of the six boxes per case, one was an empty filler box. How ever as I keot receiving I realized that all the cases were one unit short, so after procing all 50 cases, we were short 50 game consoles. I called my supervisor and showed him. He got on the phone and in minutes we had a dozen suits, Stores GM and VP's and Loss Prvention Managers. The fifty empty boxes were factory sealed and stapled close so it was not a case of Truck Driver grabbing a unit for his kid. I got a letter of commendation and was promoted to a supervisor role in the warehouse. Great for me and College Co-op job.
I like the people I worked with and my life was great, then they hire a High School girl who was of the opinion that she was gods gift to the male of the species. She never wore anything that wasn't skin tight. I couldn't believe an 18 year old could own that many jeans and tops that were at least a size or two too small. She was also the girl in the warehouse who wore heels instead of sneakers. I laughed at first when she did her pose with her butt stickingout and acted as if the box she picking up was an anvil; instantly three guys were tripping over themselves to lift the box for her. Between flirting with every guy, she was also busy filing complaints with HR that guys were hitting on her. I gave her a wide birth and made sure I wasn't alone with her, I addressed everyone in the 'Marking Room' as a group to tell them what was coming in and what were prriority.
Beyond the Co=op students, College and High School were the regular full time employees who trained us and kept the process running. Two of the people who worked in the warehouse were a young married couple, they'd been with the company for years and they never worked in the same Department. He was a supervisor the department that transferred goods betwen stores and his wife was a Warehouse Supervisor, They were nice people and anyone with any sense at this time was getting the hang of the no dating where you work culture. I dated a girl who worked in the Mall we were attached too.
Thats when the High School girl decided she wanted to hook up with the cute guy who did the inter store Transfers. She started asking about him and was politely told he was spoken for, married to the pretty redhead Warehouse Supervisor. She didn't listen and still pestered the guy to the point that he had to file a complaint about her hitting on him, which HR thought was funny that a guy would complain about a hot young girl hitting on him.
The incedent that blew it all up was one day when someone needed to take a load of Merchandise from the 2nd floor marking room to the first floor Retail Departments, the High School Girl jumped at the chance, since pushing several racks of merchandise through the warehouse into the freight elevator and then downstairs to the lower warehouse and then out onto the sales floor and then deliverd to the Department the Merchandise belonged too. The only odd thing was the single light in the huge freight elevator seemed to be burned out. The elevator door closed and it moved downward. I thought no more about it.
An hour alter, some employees bringing merchandise up the Freight Elevator found the High School girl who seemed to have recieved a serious ass kicking, she ha d split lip,a bloddy nose and been repeatedly punched, kicked and slapped.Management , Security, and HR werepulled in, Police were called and lots of us were interviewed. The gentleman who filed the complaint about her was on camera on the Salesfloor with the Department Heads who wanted to transfer merchandise. His wife was off that day and was not seen on any camera and had an iron clad alibi as to her whereabouts.
Warehouse Camera's were checked and they showed the girl in the tight jeans pushing her carts into the Elevator, stepping inside and closing the large gates and decending. The camera's on the first floor showed no one entering the elevator.
The High School Quit, claiming she was assaulted and her parents were insisting they'd sue. In the end the Police Report was sufficient for legal go to court and have the suit dismissed as the Police saw possibility of an assault and suggested that she had fallen in the elevator and decided that saying she was attacked would get her a promotion or pad time off. Then when her parents got involved and wanted to sue, she assumed the Company wuld pay her to make it go away; but legal didn't want to open that can or worms so everyone who got a splinter could swearthey were 'stabbed' and get paid time off or a cash settlement.
A long, involved, expensve investigation that ended up, with no assault, no evidence but it still cost time of paid employees to be interviewed and write reposrts on what we saw when we saw it, etc, etc.
I was a retail manager ina Leased Dept of a large department store. I had a nice young crew, all women between 17 and 29. They all played well together and worked well with each other. One week I had a ton of products shipped into my department fromanother stores whose department couldn't move this product. So I needed to have all the new Merchandise checked in, and price stickered. I asked for volunteers to do this over the weekend for a sale that started on Monday. My High School girl, 17 years old was the only taker, with the condition that she had to rode her bike to the store since her mother coudn't drop her off as she did on the week nights she worked. I was fine with that, and she added that she would not be abe to wear the normal dress code for Sales Clerks since she was riding a bicycle. I OK that. Come Saturday, she comes in with her 10 speed, clad in a spandex bicycling suit that made me wish I was 10 years younger, but since she is working in the warehouse storage area, it not an issue. I give ehr the paperwork to check in the merchandise and the machine to print the price stickers. I checked on her a couple tomes during the shift and she was always in our Merchandise cage, working away. Alls good, She finished her work called me to let me know and punched out. Shortly after she eft I get a call from the stores Manager. I go and see her only to have her demand to know what I was going to do about my employee casuing an accident. I asked what accident? It seems one of the young men in the warehouse was walking and happen to notice the young lady bending over to pick up more product to price sticker and while admiring her spandex covered bottom, he managed to walk into one of the steel support columns that held up the roof. The young man a 22 year old knicked himself cold. The stores GM was less than pleased when I respomded that I was not going to mention it to my employee as she was where she was supposed to be, doing what she was assigned to do and it was the young mans fault that he couldn't look where he was going while he was supposed to be working. The stoes GM was furious and demanded I fire the girl at once. I pointed out that I did not work for her and my companies instructions to me was to try to get along with her and her stores employees. The end result was my girl was not fired as I pointed out I'd be more than happy to wlak her through the process of filing a complaint with the state Labor Board for unfair dismissal, is they wanted to push it.
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The Chained closed 6 mohts later after another insane incident I'll add later.
So, I'm new to this world of dealing with HR and the people within..... I run a factory in a small town. So, my employment pool is small.
I have 2 employees one calls in mentally ill and the other is that or sick. I want to support them but it is getting to the point of abuse. At this point, their usefulness is slipping. What would you do?
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I am 24, and have a 3 yr experience as an HR in the IT domain. My job profile has little bit of everything Content writing, social media managing, recruitment taking interviews admin process, jack of all trades kinda profile. I got this without an MBA so idk if doing MBA HR will make a difference here? and should i do an MBA in India or abroad specifically in HR? as my major concern is just salary. As i currently have a 5 LPA package. what should i do? i have given CAT but had no luck. Can anyone please help me!!
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I work in corporate services for a relatively large company (~1500 employees). I absolutely hate it - for more reasons than I care to list. But I also think it working in a corporate setting with fake people is so bad, itβs funny.
One of the best ways I can describe working in HR is like youβre part of the mean βcool kidβ group in middle school. Thereβs the leader, thereβs the leaderβs favorites (managers), and the people below the managers: kids who just kind of happen to be in the group (me), and thereβs the kids that will do anything to appease the leader in order to fit in.
One time, I did not reply to an email from my manager (without getting into it, this email needed no response). Instead of addressing me first, my manager went to our boss (the leader) and told her that I did not reply to the email. My boss then told my other manager (I know this is confusing but stay with me) that I needed to be coached on how to be more responsive and take better ownership over my work. All that for a silly email.
For someone like me, who is creative and has a personality, a hierarchal environment that feels like your playing pretend work is not conducive to thrive. The brown-nosing, backstabbing rat race, gossip, condescending attitudes, fakeness, overwhelming busyness with mundane work that doesnβt actually matter, and the anxiety of upsetting my boss or having my manager gossip about me has made me depressed and not excited for the future of my career.
Anyone else work in a toxic corporate environment feel the same? Anyone else want to cut their tongue off when you catch yourself saying βhi, how are you?β With a fake grin every 4 min at work?
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We might have some crossover between our communities. Feel free to check out r/talesfromgovernment.
Full disclosure: if your stories resonate, there's a chance I might crosspost them. Thank-you-in-advance!
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I am in my late twenties and have been in corporate for the last 7 years. For the last 2 years started managing a team and working with the Genz and omg it is impossible to teach them basic ethics and respect. Is it just me struggling?
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I don't want to be in HR, long story short. All i do is fill in a template and update the payroll.
I also do alot of L&D work, I am good at it. The manager has asked the HR manager if he can manage me, He was told to leave it when the HR manager.
I have a great opportunity to work on the companies strategy for L&D and develop my career.
The HR manager had a one to one with me and wrote in the note I make errors in letters that are templates which is impossible, I need to work on time management.
I was clear in my 1 2 1 my time management is very good now. I was clear I wanted to go into L&D. My HR manager wants me to sign that I agree with his notes.
This is my third meeting with HR manager about my future in the company and he hasn't helped me. I am at witts end.
We are a small company without HR yet. Iβm an office manager so have little experience here- we are a professional service-based company and a client who has always been aggressive has officially threatened to kill one of my employees when he was angry. The employee had previously expressed stress around working with this client due to his temper, but we did not think it would escalate to this level.
We are stopping work with this client immediately but Iβm not sure what else I should be worried about.
The client threatened over the phone, not in writing. Thoughts???
Ok, buckle up, Iβve got a tale from HR for you!
About a decade ago, I worked an information management company. We take our box trucks to your business, pick-up boxes that youβve packed and then store them until you tell us. We also offered shredding, but thatβs not applicable to this story.
One of our warehouses in a large city was not in the classiest part of the city. It worked for us and the employees there, but there was a fence surrounding the property to keep our trucks and warehouse safe. Only a few people had access to the key to unlock said fence. I honestly donβt know how the story starts, basically one of our box trucks was stuck in a fast-food drive thru one night.
As the investigation starts, we learn that the lock on the lot was in place when the first employee arrived in the morning and the stolen truck was from that lot. So, suspects narrow to the folks who have a key to the lock! Easy!
The footage from the security cam at the drive thru isnβt conclusive, but does offer some clues (thin/fat, etc). Once the truck is dislodged from the drive thru (damage to the vehicle and the building), we searched the contents of the vehicle. Inside, we found quite a few things, including a receipt from a liquor store (and the bottle purchased). This is where I, HR with access to banking info through direct deposit, come in. I was able to confirm that the last 4 digits on the receipt matched the suspected employeeβs direct deposit account. Yay! Evidence!
There was some additional evidence that Iβm totally blanking on, letβs just say that we knew who did it without a doubt and fired him immediately. He had unlocked the gate, taken the truck, re-locked the gate, and went on a spree. He went to the liquor store, and apparently got hungry so he went for fast-food and got the truck stuck on the drive thru overhang thingie.
Hereβs where it got fun /s. We pressed charges, and the case was dismissed as βall evidence was circumstantialβ. He actually filed for unemployment AND WON! Fired for insubordination and because the police refused to press charges, unemployment wouldnβt let us prove it either.
This concludes the tale from HR of a really bad day.
I worked in the HR of a medical care's billing office. The recruiters would look for folks who could argue with insurance companies for payments, yet also be compassionate with folks needing to make payment arrangements when insurance companies failed them (US healthcare). They had a good candidate in a 50+ year old lady and sent her off to complete her drug screen as the process goes.
A couple days later we get her red hot results with several positives including cocaine! Well, obviously we can't have THAT! When the recruiter called the ex-candidate to explain her offer was rescinded, well, the sweet little old lady asked if her having sex with her boyfriend after HE had been doing drugs could have caused that result? We were all flabbergasted! and honestly, didn't know how to answer that particular question!
So... much like how /r/talesfromtechsupport is for people who work in tech support to complain about the nonsense they experience, rather than for people who don't work in tech support to complain about shitty tech support, this subreddit is not for complaining about your company's shitty HR Officer.
Believe me, we know there's a lot of shitty HR people out there. But please find another subreddit to go complain about that in.
This is something that happened to me about a year or so ago. Our HR person is someone who honestly shouldn't be in HR. The president of our company isn't someone who likes to fire people, so she generally just gets by with an apology and some kind of training. There was more to the story but i just cut it down to the basic details.
Me = Me
HR = HR
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HR - Doesn't your son have autism or something like that?
Me - *unsure why she is bringing it up in my office* Yes
HR - My nephew has something that is similar.... what is the word. I mean he is like your son but more of the tongue hanging out of the mouth kind.
Me - *starting to get uncomfortable where this is going* ok
HR - Yea.....MONGOLOID AUTISM!!, that is it.
Me - *I am very angry at this point but I am controlled* oh....well i need to work on this.
HR - Ok...... *then she leaves*
I am so mad at this point, I wanted to blow up at her in the middle of the office. I couldn't work, I just left my desk and walked the warehouse for a while. I then went to the president's assistant and unloaded the story to her. The president talked to her and said it was a "last warning". She went to a sensitivity training and pretty much has stayed the same person, just doesn't talk to me about it anymore. I have plenty more stories about her that I should post in here too.