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\"HR2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a widely held opinion in my line of work that people who work in Human Resources are dumb. With the exception of our friend who is “chewin’ bubblegum” in Maine, my experience has supported this opinion. Also suspect are the people that hire HR staff. From what I’ve seen, high hair trumps high IQ.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A<\/strong>
\nAt the organization where I work, our HR department consists of one person. And she’s a moron. Today she asked me a question about a program she uses because, as she said, “I heard you’re good at like computers and stuff.” Bear in mind that this program (ADP) is a payroll and administration application, so it’s designed for users that are not expected to be tech-savvy. Oh, and she’s the only person that uses it. Here’s our conversation verbatim (or as close to it as I can recall):<\/p>\n

Her<\/strong>: “When I run the annual staff report in ADP it doesn’t show the new titles of the people who have been recently promoted; it still shows their old titles. Why?”
\nMe<\/strong>: “When did you change their titles in ADP?”
\nHer<\/strong>: “Do I actually have to do that?”
\nMe<\/strong>: “That is<\/em> your job.”
\nHer<\/strong>: “I don’t mean keep track of that stuff, I mean enter it into ADP.”
\nMe<\/strong>: “I’m pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to ‘keep track<\/em>‘ of that data. How did you think it was going to get in there?”
\nHer<\/strong>: “I thought it would just know.”<\/p>\n

Exhibit B<\/strong>
\nAt a prior job, the director of HR mistakenly sent out an email to the entire staff of the company with this subject line:
\n“CONFIDENTIAL – Staff salaries, stock options, and bonuses”
\nIt contained precisely that, plus social security numbers and birthdays. Everyone from the janitor to the CEO was on there. About an hour later she sent a followup:
\n“Please delete my previous CONFIDENTIAL email immediately!”
\nIdiot. That’s like putting yellow police tape around it. So for those few that hadn’t looked at the email by then, they did now. In more ways than one it was obvious that she was vastly overpaid. Ironically, she got a promotion a few weeks later. Justice prevailed a few months after that when the company folded.<\/p>\n

Exhibit C<\/strong>
\nAn acquaintance of mine is in the HR field. As diplomatically as possible I asked her if she was aware of the reputation her field has, and elicited her thoughts on the matter.
\nHer<\/strong>: “There is a perception that the job we do is not particularly difficult.”
\nMe<\/strong>: “Is it?”
\nHer (giggling)<\/strong>: “No.”<\/p>\n

Anyone else have other examples (or counterexamples, but the former are more fun to read)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a widely held opinion in my line of work that people who work in Human Resources are dumb. With the exception of our friend who is “chewin’ bubblegum” in Maine, my experience has supported this opinion. Also suspect are the people that hire HR staff. From what I’ve seen, high hair trumps high IQ. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}