Why is HR So Full of Idiots?

[SuperHornet]

An Amazon worker in KY wasn't able to get to work because a tornado touched down two miles from her home, disrupting EVERYTHING. When she called HR (apparently off-site HR), she was accused of lying and placed in an "excess UPT (unpaid time off" status, which put her in danger of getting fired. When a company exec tweeted concern for employees in IL, she replied to it, and he got the ball rolling. First, HR still maintained the "no tornado in KY" stance, but then suddenly reversed track on that, offering her full OT pay (the Saturday shift she missed was 11 hours). Her conclusion: holding employees in a rigid system with no consideration for the "human element" is bad for business. She thinks she might have been fired if it hadn't been for that exec actually looking at responses to his tweet.

Wow.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-ama ... 49903.html

[SeattleGriz]

An Amazon worker in KY wasn't able to get to work because a tornado touched down two miles from her home, disrupting EVERYTHING. When she called HR (apparently off-site HR), she was accused of lying and placed in an "excess UPT (unpaid time off" status, which put her in danger of getting fired. When a company exec tweeted concern for employees in IL, she replied to it, and he got the ball rolling. First, HR still maintained the "no tornado in KY" stance, but then suddenly reversed track on that, offering her full OT pay (the Saturday shift she missed was 11 hours). Her conclusion: holding employees in a rigid system with no consideration for the "human element" is bad for business. She thinks she might have been fired if it hadn't been for that exec actually looking at responses to his tweet.

Wow.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-ama ... 49903.html

Not to take the easy way out, but HR has always been around to protect the company and not the employee in all the interactions I've witnessed.

[AZGrizFan]

An Amazon worker in KY wasn't able to get to work because a tornado touched down two miles from her home, disrupting EVERYTHING. When she called HR (apparently off-site HR), she was accused of lying and placed in an "excess UPT (unpaid time off" status, which put her in danger of getting fired. When a company exec tweeted concern for employees in IL, she replied to it, and he got the ball rolling. First, HR still maintained the "no tornado in KY" stance, but then suddenly reversed track on that, offering her full OT pay (the Saturday shift she missed was 11 hours). Her conclusion: holding employees in a rigid system with no consideration for the "human element" is bad for business. She thinks she might have been fired if it hadn't been for that exec actually looking at responses to his tweet.

Wow.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-ama ... 49903.html

Not to take the easy way out, but HR has always been around to protect the company and not the employee in all the interactions I've witnessed.

That paradigm is changing. Rapidly. At least in the CU world. Maybe not in giganticus corporate world...

[CAA Flagship]

HR people are always the dumbest people in the room.

[Pwns]

HR people are always the dumbest people in the room.

Thats sexist.