Stupid reasons you have been sent to HR

GymGoddessGoals wrote: »

..... Welcome to small business America where nothing is done quite like its supposed to be done.

Yes... Absolutely. I've never worked for one that wasn't highly toxic/dysfunctional. What they get away with would last all of 30 seconds in a major place (at least the ones I've worked in).

@brustmannzwei She still works there. That's a cautionary tale about the poor bloke who lost thousands. I feel sad for him.

Nooo, they did save the day. Smoothing everything over with the lady.

Motorsheen wrote: »

breefoshee wrote: »

Just_Mel_ wrote: »

I was fired for "not answering an email in a timely manner" which was totally fabricated. The following week, my ex-supervisor's younger sister had my old job.
The job loss left me unemployed for 5 months, ruined my credit, and sent me into crippling depression. I'm still bitter AF over it, 4 years later.

Nepotism is real. I used to really believe that people who got fired were fired because they were worse workers than they let on.

I worked at this horrible place for 1.6 years and we seriously had a running joke where we wanted to place a sign up that said "xy days without incidents" aka people getting fired. It rarely went longer than a month.

My turn was up when they promoted a managers daughter-- who was 21 and known for doing a horrible job but kissing upper managements feet. She got her feelings hurt when she heard that the whole department didn't agree with her being promoted and one by one fired every. one. of us. HR said that it was because I wasn't completing one certain task-- they had given it to me 2 days before I was fired.

Whatever, one month later, I landed an amazing job with awesome bosses.

The company you just described will survive in the short term, however that kind of culture usually results in a collapse. Sometimes the failure is swift, other times dragged out over several years..... but they do typically wash out after some period of time.


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They were beginning to go under when I left, but with Covid, business is probably booming for them because it was for medical billing. They have a hard time keeping good workers though; I see them trying to fill the role I was in all the time.

I was once called to HR at 4:45pm on a Friday to be fired.

Oh, please... as if that will stop me from re-entering the bldg.

I was called on the carpet for passing wind in my cubical. The young lady who lodged the complaint wasn't even supposed to be in that area, Apparently if passing wind is eminent I was expected to leave my cubical, walk down a long hall to the restroom and release. Nearly lost my job, no bonus or raise that year.

Its been my experience that small companies do tailor their HR policies to the moment. That being said, I never could spend more than 3 years in a big company. When we were acquired, the new HR person made it abundantly clear that she considered the workforce lower then whale*kitten*, and she didn't give a rats*kitten* if we liked it or not. The complaint the workforce had was that they had ended 401K matching, and doubled the cost of health insurance. That company had 1000+ employees and lasted another three years.

Ten years later my partners and I started a company of less than 50 people, when we formed the company we set down 4 simple tenants we would run the company by.

1. No ties required ever.
2. Our workforce is key to our success, within the confines of not closing the doors we will do everything possible to treat them fairly and with respect.
3. Our customers will always speak to a person when they call us. They will not be endlessly transferred through the system. It is the job of every person to let the customer know we respect their time, and will solve their issue.
4. We will not take jobs we feel, will not allow us to put our best foot forward. The customer expects us to be 'The Pros From Dover' and we will be.

I retired from this company after 19 years with 95% retention of the workforce. We were acquired in 2019 by a much larger organization who's HR was going to 'fix'our HR policies, once again ending 401K contributions, and bonuses. to date 8 of the 10 key players has left the company, and the workforce turnover is in the double digits. I give it 5 years at best. What a waste.

Not me, but a coworker once got placed on a one-week unpaid leave because he held a banana like a pretend gun and went "pew pew" towards another coworker. (It wasn't even the "target" who complained, but an outside observer.)