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I know it was just a typo but I'm going to start calling people "stoog" from now on

If someone spends 95% of their day helping some people, and 5% hurting others, it can be hard for them to separate the two. It's a purposeful, systemic issue driven from the top down in more than just HR. Law enforcement, middle management, even insurance to an extent.

Business leaders need to step up to take responsibility for their teams before anything in HR will change. This is why I like small companies.

20% is the going rate, or 10% if you work at a buffet.

Morons, who play right into the hands of HR!

The only times anyone should talk to HR is when they are hired for a job and when they leave a job and you don't talk to HR until you're actually leaving. Not when you're thinking about it. When you are ready to walk out the door, and you have another employment offer or you are retiring. Never before then.

The HR industry exists so that an entire subset of the workforce is dedicated to protecting corporate interests from the workforce

They're like "gays for Republicans" who don't get why everyone seems to hate them

It may be the stilted writing. "Approach to" is as dumb as "as big of a".

I think in many countries it’s codified by law.

But hear this: the employer needs to give notice too. Crazy right?

Under at will employment, neither side is required to give notice before ending the employment.

Depends on where you live. Unless you explicitly specify something else in the employment contract, the notice period here (the Netherlands) is 1 month for the employee and 2 months for the employer. If you do specify it in the contract, the notice period for the employer has to be at least twice that of the employee.

I work in corporate I.T and HR frequently tell us to delete user accounts only for us to then get calls from users who don't understand why their accounts are being deleted. This happens five or six times a year. I don't understand how they can think people are leaving when they're not. It's not even like they were on maternity leave or something, they are just plugging away, doing their jobs without issue, and then HR randomly decided they quit.

You have to be a special kind of moron to work in HR, a simple lack of intelligence just doesn't cut it, you need to be able to not only make a mountain out of a mole hill, but make a mountain out of completely flat terrain.

IIUC there is a system in India to prevent people from working two jobs, which is that you need to present some paper that you get in your current job that certifies you left to get employed at the next one.

It's ghoulish if you ask me.

Probably some sort of proof of employment for your records or if your next employer asks for evidence that you worked there.