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I recognize that I struggle with change.

I recognize that change may not always be a bad thing and learning new habits due to said changes is character building or some shit.

All that being said - and acknowledged - I submit that the bloody stupid changes that work has made to our leave of absence process makes more work for everyone.

WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM IF WE WERE STILL FOLLOWING L'S PROCESS. BUT NOOOOOOO. YOU ALL DECIDED TO FORCE HER TO RETIRE, DECIDED NOT TO REPLACE HER POSITION, DECIDED TO GO WITH FUCKING 3RD PARTY VENDOR, AND NOW LOOK WHERE WE ARE!

(It doesn't help that L was training me to take over her role, and leadership decided, "no, let's move anxious into a recruiting role (GROSS! I HATE IT. FUCKING KILL ME NOW!) rather than into the role she was actually interested in." So, not only am I working a role that I loathe, but I'm also being asked to complete LOA tasks that SHOULDN'T BE ASSIGNED TO ME! I fucking resent having to clean up LOA messes that the 3rd party vendor won't handle when leadership fucked the process all to hell.)

They did this in the interest of saving money (don't have to pay L's salary any more, the 3rd party vendor costs less than her salary), and fucked the team instead, because now we have to spend time and energy shoring up a now broken LOA process.

Thanks, corporate overlords. I hope you have the day you deserve for the rest of your long, long lives. (May misery abound for you fuckers.)

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Okay, but can I point out how lacking in empathy this one manager at work is?

They are stone cold. STONE COLD!

They reached out to me to see if I could pull any information on a former employee who worked at their site 15 years ago.

They reached out because they learned that this former employee was being hired by a company we contract with for 3rd party maintenance. They wanted to find out if the former employee had performance issues.

Do they not understand how much a person can change in 15 years? I know I'm not the same person I was 5 years ago, let alone 15.

And how dare they have the nerve to ask!? So what if this former employee was terrible in the position they held with us 15 years ago? It was a different role than the one they are currently in the process of being hired for.

What if, with their questions, this manager poisons the new role for the former employee? What can this manager gain by ruining opportunities for this former employee? They are living in this capitalistic hellscape, same as me. If I can see how hard it is out there for people, this manager has no excuse for not seeing it as well.

(Shit, I'm stuck in the job that I loathe because I need what it provides (salary, benefits), and I can't seem to find a role that suits me better that 1. I want, 2. that wants me back, 3. that pays close to what I'm making now, and 4. would help support my family and their needs. I'm employed and I feel how awful it is out there for job seekers!)

This manager just doesn't think beyond what is good for their site and the company. They seem to have forgotten what it means to be a decent human. But I can't suggest that to them without consequences. So I come here to whine and complain.

I hate this society so much right now. I would never choose to live this way if there were better, more humane options.

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In case you were wondering if HR functions serve the workers or the company:

SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) opposes the new CA "Right to Disconnect" bill.

(I'm not shocked, I'm just disappointed.)

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every day I think about the religious anime girls…

And how the artist drew several pro-Palestine drawings like this one

in 2014, that’s right, 2014, this did not fucking start October 7th.

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It is so unsettling to hear my mom's laugh exiting my mouth.

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I am going to commit a crime if my coworker does not stop whistling.

Crimes will be committed.

CRIMES!

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I'm posting here because work frowns upon me asking my coworkers why they won't use their gd brains.

I was pushed into a recruiting role in my company late last year. (I hate it. I would never have chosen this for myself. I need to earn a paycheck right now, though, while I search desperately for something else.)

When we hire a new employee, IT won't start building out their computer and other assigned equipment until they - IT - receive the official, system generated notice that a new hire has been hired into our HRIS.

Our primary IT team is in a different state, at a different corporate office. It is this part of the IT team that prepares the assigned equipment. Once prepared, it needs to be sent to whatever location the new hire will be working out of.

(All clear so far? Make sense? Are you with me? Good, because the hiring managers CLEARLY CANNOT KEEP UP, FOR FUCKS SAKE!)

I have just had an email exchange with a hiring manager. They would like their new hire to start next week.

I suggested, then Thursday or Friday, BECAUSE I TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THAT OUR OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY FOR THE PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY.

Their response was that they'd prefer the new hire to start on a Tuesday, as that is the day when their whole team is working onsite rather than remotely. And if - if! - I'm sure that this coming Tuesday won't work - they guess that the following Tuesday will be adequate.

BITCH, PLEASE! The candidate needs to complete all of their on-boarding paperwork before we can hire them into the system. Say, okay, the candidate is willing and able to get all of that in today, then our HRIS manager will need to process the hire into the system. Maybe he'd get to it today, but he's been slammed lately, so he probably won't get to it until tomorrow at the earliest. That would then give IT...ooooh! Part of a Friday - when the offices close early in observation of the Monday holiday - to work on building out the computer.

Is the hiring manager expecting that the IT team will work over the weekend to fulfill this order? Do they think that the IT team will come in a holiday Monday to ship out this equipment so that it will arrive on Tuesday?

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?!?

(I just don't understand why it is so hard to factor in the time it takes to get everything set up for the incoming new hire when I spell out the timeline MULTIPLE TIMES throughout the hiring process.)

I am so tired of this gd place. I'm so tired of the mindset that everything needs to be done ASAP. We are not doing brain surgery. Our business is not life or death. Why are we acting like it is 100% critical to get these new hires in, like, yesterday?

For fuck's sake.

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How to put this?

We are bringing a new CEO onboard to replace our retiring CEO.

I just sat through a meeting to review our onboarding process and to discuss how we are going to tailor it for the new CEO, because - apparently - the big money makers deserve the highest quality of service, while all the peons deserve jack shit.

(I am not surprised by this. But it does make me angry.)

I think I've just realized a new belief.

The more money an employee makes, the fewer perks, the less special treatment, the less hand-holding they should be eligible for at work.

Whereas, the low earners deserve ALL the perks, ALL the support, and ALL the hand-holding.

(A title isn't enough to make me respect you. And knowing that you are pulling the highest salary in the company won't make me believe that you deserve all that and our fawning over you too.)

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I have had, for years, chronically cold hands and feet.

Some days are better and more bearable.

Some days are worse.

Today, it is damp and rainy. My feet are so freaking cold! My hands are so freaking cold! I want to go home, curl up under my covers, and NOT BE COLD!

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My company announced today that our CEO is retiring and that his replacement has been selected.

I am now on a mandatory zoom call, which is giving us a chance to ask our questions about the changes.

I can tell how done I am with the company by how little interest I have in asking questions about our new overlord. Like, even if we didn't like what we heard, if we didn't like the answers we are being given, what good will that do us? I think our options will be to suck it up or leave. This isn't a negotiation. They aren't interested in our input. In our thoughts. So, why even have this meeting?

That's where I'm at. I expect the new CEO will be about as useful as the old CEO, they will cause similar issues for the line staff and will listen just as closely to what the employees are saying about their experiences here.

I know that, as my grandma would say, time will tell, but I don't have high hopes that this will suddenly usher us into some golden age.

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Something something life imitates art.

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The company I work for will be closed on Monday to observe MLK, Jr. Day.

And MLK, Jr. Day has been branded as a day of service.

(I'm ashamed to admit that it has been some time since I have deliberately volunteered on this holiday. I have no good excuse. I'm not against the idea, I just...don't make the effort?)

We - the employees - just received the general reminder that the office will be closed on Monday. Along with that reminder was a note to be sure to enter any volunteer hours that we complete on that day into the company's volunteer and donation portal.

What I'm having a hard time with - what I've historically had a hard time with - is why we should enter our volunteer hours that we complete while we are not at work. Like, it is our own personal time, why should I enter this information? I know that the company wants to point at the stats they can pull from this portal to show how much the company gives back to the community. I do understand why the company wants us to comply with this guidance. But I don't understand why my company gets to use volunteer hours completed on my own time as proof of what a good company they are.

It isn't so much - what is in it for me? I volunteer for me. I do it because I want to help, and I go for volunteer tasks that i enjoy and find fulfilling. I'm certainly not volunteering for the sake of the company I work for. Why should they get any credit for my off-hours volunteering?

And I don't really need an answer. I don't need anyone to advocate for or against why my company deserves to take partial credit for my off-hours activities. I'm just musing on how shady this feels. And it isn't necessarily evil. it just feels...wrong.

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