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(with ping-ping tables)
Do they really think people give a shit about ping-pong tables? I don’t care about your little table games, pay me.
It’s a tactic these dipshits use to downplay your legitimate concerns. Nobody gives a fuck about ping pong tables, snacks, paid lunches.
Pay well or fuck off, the end.
incredible instance name btw
Paid luches are nice. But if I get the choice between $10.000 yearly more or paid lunches, obviously i’d go for the cash. It’s supposed to be a bonus (i.e. free), and not a way to cut corners and undermine your employees.
Maybe it does do the company some good in terms of retention, but counting on “I’ll save $6k if I spend $4k on lunches per person on average by cutting pay for new hires” is not a good strategy. Same for ping pong tables, horseraces, pizza parties and whatever else.
Just being in HR gives you some kind of brainworm but being in HR and posting about it with what seems to be a personal account is more like having a brain shai-hulud
Considering the rest of the post I would guess that HR sees it as a signal that the place allows their employees to leave their desk and not pretend to work for 15 minutes (morally repugnant to an American Protestant)
I absolutely despise these implied “trick question” mentality that HR and job market shills have.
Capitalism would be slightly more bearable if all companies dropped the “we care about you” shtick and just straight up told you their only motive is profit and that they’re here to exploit you.
Right now we’re literally living under capitalism but you’re not allowed to point that out to any of the capitalists. I’m so damn sick of this stupid charade I have to play just for the privilege of being a wage slave.
I have a friend who used to work in HR at some point, before he decided to leave and rejoin college. From what he tells me, it seems like many HR people hate this shit as well. But they’re simply supposed to work like this. There’s this nebulous concept of what they should do, and they do it as a whole, even if most of the individuals don’t like it. The destruction of individual decision making, and any kind of critical thinking and discussion is an aspect of capitalism that isn’t discussed enough.
It’s certainly true that the system is broken, but at the same time you’re suggesting we should forgive HR employees for the bad stuff they do, and I don’t think that’s how morality works.
Not only that, we all understand that sometimes employees don’t have control of a situation and they’re going to follow company policy or go along with their bosses. But we can see through their words and their body language how they feel about it, and we can recognize small actions that they could take to make a bad situation slightly less bad. In my experience it’s very rare that you will encounter such behavior in HR, because the vast majority of HR workers are perfectly happy to f*** us over as much as they can.
To be completely clear, I’m not making excuses. I still hate HR people. All I’m saying is that it’s a feature of capitalism, that turns people into shitheads. Sometimes against their wish.
