Last time I got laid off I got the email that I was being laid off three hours before my call with HR. Headquarters was on Eastern Time, so the layoff emails went out around 9am ET, but I was on a team that was mostly on Pacific Time so my call was after 9am PT. And I’m on Atlantic, so this was 10am and 1pm, and I was off that day. The clueless HR person offered me a moment to collect myself at the start of the call, as if I hadn’t already had plenty of time for that. Just one big annoyance.
HR stories really show how incompetent HR people are.
It’s almost like being completely disconnected from reality is a prerequisite for HR.
HR seems to be one of those jobs where it’s great if you have education, but to land an entry level role, you don’t need it necessarily. So you end up with a workforce who doesn’t have critical thinking, problem solving, or advanced communication skills.
Professional bodies try to help fix it, but it seems it’s not blocked off enough.
Anne’s smile is so perfect it almost looks AI, bro
“Perfect” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind unless it’s “perfectly off-putting”.
Hard disagree. She’s such a lovely person and beautiful smiler. The personality enhances the smile a lot for me, I think.
But I guess in this context, a better choice of word would be “symmetrical”, for the purpose of describing the “AI” quality? 😅
It’s nothing against her personally, but unfortunately my brain is a visual indexer par excellence, I see her face and this pops in my mind instantly:
I can see that, lol. We all have our connotations I guess 😅
Another woman with interesting features is Rachel Cruze, to me she’s a Dr Seuss character. Adorably cute.
I had to look her up, I find her to be alright.
If I’m brutally honest, I don’t like her teeth. She had baby teeth, very short teeth, and the tooth-to-gum ratio is too small. Too much gums.
It looks like she has dentures and I can’t unsee that sh—. 😅
My wife has short teeth as well, but just slightly taller, and her gum ratio is spot on. I can’t tell you what the ratio should be, I just know what it shouldn’t be when I see it 😂🫠 My older boy’s ratio is off just like Cruze’s, haha. Can’t wait to see what his adult teeth will look like…
Thanking an employee for joining before termination sounds insincere and odd. I understand it’s to appear polite however I don’t think it should be best practice.
A more appropriate opening would be “Hi X, I have some difficult news to share.”
I was working as a contractor for a company, and two of us were told that we’d be moved to permanent roles but it kept getting blocked higher up.
It then became obvious why, because then they announced they are cutting all contractors and I heard they were moving our roles to a region where it’s cheaper to pay salaries.
Then we all get called into this large meeting with our team members and some adjacent teams as some form of farewell. The meeting host starts off with something like, we have a few people that will be leaving us soon so let’s go around and share some happy memories and what you enjoyed about working for [Company Name].
Yeah I just straight up left the meeting at that point.
I’ve heard the whole “this position can change to permanent” story so many times, where it doesn’t. It should be illegal to make promises like that and not follow through.
Our manager tried, a few times, but the process got blocked further up.
I would have started as perm but there was some odd internal policy and the person who hired me in, a friend of a friend, mentioned that HR do not like it when someone gets hired and get a salary that is more than 15% of their previous salary.
I fell into that category, but they were willing to pay a day rate that ended up well exceeding what they would have paid me as perm… probably about 30%+. But then it would have been more difficult to get rid of me.
So the plan was to get me in as contract, get a decent day rate and then move over to perm after 6 months and use that day rate to negotiate a decent salary. Then the boss of that area changed, and when he came on he said he was not going to make changes, just observe. A total lie that is obviously a lie.
The irony is how much money they lost over their practice, a good employee, and the cost (time, resources) of having to replace you.
HR gets the blame, but it may be the managers in charge running things like that.
An HR rep once told me to “have a nice day” after firing me.
Or Anne Hathaway when she’s about to sit down for dinner with Epstein and Gates.
A name in the files doesn’t mean they were involved in anything.
Care to share the actual allegations other than whatever you pull out of your ass?
Ew, really? Thanks for the red pill.
Too many teeth in that smile
Her and Julia Roberts have nightmare mouths.
Edit: I regret nothing.
I’ve never had a job where i could be fired, it sounds incredibly stressful.
Have you not had a job, or somehow they’ve never been allowed to fire you? I’m not playing dumb, I may actually be dumb - I just can’t imagine what job doesn’t carry a risk of being fired (except maybe tenured professor)?
I’ve been employed for a good 25 years of my life. I’ve either, been too valuable to fire and have had too much knowledge of where the bodies are buried, worked for myself, or worked for my parents company. I did have one normal job once a few years back, for 90 days and then it was a mutual resignation. Ive never really had a boss I’ve ever feared, ive always been on their “team”.
Right on! I get this energy as well. Never had anyone “manage” me. Make my own schedule and I project deep roots into everything I touch and improve cutting me loose would be extremely painful.
I did work somewhere where the COO wanted to can my ass. But they were constantly told I was way to valuable by the rest of the c-suite and cool it. Their problem was I wouldn’t kiss their ass and called them out on dumb ideas.
I show up to do work, not play politics. Turns out being good at what you do pays off sometimes.
Possibly a decent country that has labour laws rather than ‘fire at will’ BS?
you bet. it is. you get kicked out and have to find something very fast to pay for housing and food. fucked up
