Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "How HR Cheats Employees" video.

@jupitereye4322 For one thing, it looks really bad when employees are beating up on a woman's reputation. This is far more the case than when it's a man and quite honestly, nobody really cares what happens to men at work.
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Just remember that there's a reason why they switched from calling it Personnel to Human Resources.
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@JeffCaplan313 Management is hardly just supervising, it's also protecting the workers from upper management and ensuring that they have the necessary resources to do their jobs properly. You don't necessarily need to know how to do the job to manage it, but if you don't have recent experience, then you do need to trust your workers to tell you what they need and then go fight for it. Workers figure out if you're full of it fairly quickly and if they do see that telling managers that they need something that it gets done, they'll probably keep doing it. Plus, sometimes you don't have experienced people to hire. I hate that I was cross promoted to a department that I have no experience working in, it made the job a lot harder, but I did make a point of trying to avoid making any real decisions without asking what the issues might be.
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@Cre8tive81 I'm sure they are, the problem is that most of the time what they're top notch at is to serve the interests of the company and to deny as many benefits as possible without getting sued.
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@Anticrystal88 I think this is why it's so important that companies have HR separated from the party that deals with serious complaints. I remember a job I had a decade back where the HR woman was probably the worst troll I've ever come across, I would not trust that woman to do anything without an ulterior motive. But, the company did have a contract out with a 3rd party to handle those sorts of complaints and as far as I can tell, they were kept confidential to the extent that it's possible. I do think that in general it's best to split HR duties between those that are responsible for ensuring that contact information and benefits are up to date from the person that engages in investigating these matters.
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@itoibo4208 It's rather unfortunate that so many businesses have so little faith in their employees that giving them more than the barest of wages and work conditions is going to lead to them all leaving for other work and cost the company a lot of money. A lot of this is just so petty, things like allowing employees to have a bit of a say in their schedule is often times not expensive to do, it just leads to the crazy idea that they're not chattel.
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@christophed8429 Yes, although it's worth noting that it's mostly because we let a bunch of MBAs with no understanding of how businesses actually operate to call most of the shots. And they make decisions based on trying to sell the business to a 3rd party in many cases.
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@Mr.Septon Yes and if you've ever dealt with the agency that approves unemployment claims, they're in on it too. I remember quitting because I was being forced to falsify my timesheets and wasn't being paid for the work I was doing. But, apparently, the HR witch's insistence that I wasn't approved to work the work I was doing was sufficient to get my claim denied, even though she didn't have to put up any evidence to the contrary, she could just say it without personally witnessing anything. The employment security worker was not even remotely interested in being impartial, they were clearly representing my former employer and couldn't even be bothered to pretend like they were doing their job fairly.
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None of this is terribly surprising. It gets worse when you realize that the people at the employment security office that's supposed to decide whether or not to approve unemployment benefits is in on this as well. They'll demand a level of evidence from the applicant to verify the claim, but allow the HR reps to make claims about forms they haven't even seen and can't reasonably be expected to have any knowledge of. The whole system is hopelessly corrupt and as long as a large enough chunk of businesses engage in it, it's virtually impossible for workers to avoid it.
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I'm guessing that you probably already knew that though if they were being that brazen about it.
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