How hard is it to work in HR?
Here are the top 20 interesting descriptions we found shared online:
- You still get calls from employees who resigned 5 years ago looking for work advice.
- You get cornered in the in the bathroom with “I was wondering” questions.
- People confuse HR for JD and assume you are the employment law expert.
- You’re the fashion police.
- You get phone calls from employee spouses asking about their spouse’s attendance record.
- You know that common sense is not too common.
- You fear the complaints following a holiday party.
- You know what FCRA, DOL, OSHA, and EEOC mean and you tip toe very carefully around them.
- You spend 2 weeks planning an employee survey and get 2 responses, from yourself and your boss.
- Everyone is your best friend and everyone tries to avoid you, sometimes on the same day.
- You regularly read resumes that are 75% adjectives and adverbs.
- The organization hates you for enforcing organizational policy.
- You are tasked to improve the morale of the company after your boss fired 10% of the staff.
- The Office makes you laugh and cry, and have nightmares at night.
- You can express your work day using Dilbert comics.
- You tell your spouse and kids to fill out a complain form.
- You make personal bets whether the job applicant will pass a pre-employment drug test.
- Nothing seems to surprise you anymore when reviewing background check reports.
- You take notes on who had ‘food poisoning’ on April 20th.
- You question someone’s ability to “redesign and spearhead a more optimized workflow to increase efficiency in underutilized capital resources using redeveloped models of process.
