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All HR people are evil, it’s in our job description. Or at least, that seems to be the prevailing theory. In reality, there’s just more going on behind the scenes than most people know. I’m here to demystify your Human Resources department and tell you just why you worked your tail end off all year and still got a 1.7 percent bonus.
For a few years gone long by, I worked for a company that bragged it had management talent “stacked like cordwood,” in order to maintain institutional continuity. Technical talent was just a contractual commodity to be ordered and disposed of like canned tuna.
HR is notoriously similar. Even when technical personnel are hired as employees, HR “outsources” the pre-screening grunt work to headhunters. Perhaps that way HR can keep the “fun” harrassment soap-operas and “organizational fit” screening for itself?
When did HR start calling people talent? I’m not in show business. I’m not an entertainer.
I’m an engineer not talent.