An HR employee is the equivalent of a political commissar. Comply or be deemed a heretic and 'dealt with'.

This shit makes me so disillusioned man. What even are we supposed to do?

Great video.

Watching this at work. Making sure the margin on my labor is as small as possible

I've never thought of HR as a unit that makes you employees feel at home at the office but only doing it to prevent them from leaving or suing. But in hindsight, it makes total sense under capitalism where everything is measured with money. In that sense, HR is walking a fine line between giving employees the illusion of belonging and not spending too much effort and money on them to keep profit intact. However, I find it fascinating that in where I live, HR is seen as tyrannical a-holes who wouldn't listen to any inputs and would just punish disobedient employees. Yet, they still serve the exact same purpose. To prevent employees from leaving or suing. I think it's probably because of cultural difference and their bargaining position. Here, conformity is the social norm and obedience is highly valued. You're also expected to be always thankful of what you have and compare yourself to the less fortunate. And of course, good jobs are not easy to find either. Many HR departments here love to throw those rhetoric.

If you are a white heterosexual men, HR is a dangerous Threat to your job. In some companies of some countries

Tobi Flenderson doesn't have friends.

Let me save you the verbosity: HR is there to protect the company FROM the employee and to gain a false sense of trust with them for the company's benefit.

Already new this. Watched anyway ;)

Thank you for this ❤❤

I’m surprised anyone else is surprised that HR exists primarily for employee retention and boosting workplace productivity. Why WOULDN’T any business try to implement this? Of course that’s what it’s all about. Anything meaningful in life exists as a result of a positive feedback loop (could also be called a win-win). Happy employees = employee retention = more productivity = more profits; and on it goes. Otherwise, the house falls apart. So yes, the ultimate goal of HR in business is more profits. This is why communism is unsustainable. (Gasp! The commie cliche!) It’s built not around a positive feedback loop, but a chain: Government gets all power - feeds all people equal $$$ - people are not incentivized to improve - government gets less and less over time - system ultimately fails. You NEED all parties to gain from each other’s gain for it to work.

I had some bosses who gave empty promises and I held on for longer than I should and didn't complain far enough up the chain and I burnt out and quit. It made me lose my confidence because it felt like I was gaslit into believing that taking on the work of 2-3 other people when we became short was totally normal and I was made to feel ridiculous for asking for help because I wasn't being "realistic." I hated who I was at that job by the end. Thankfully I was able to get a better job. It's not perfect, but I at least don't feel like my boss is manipulating me every day and I have way better work life balance. I make more now than I did at the old job, so I really wonder why I stayed there unhappy as long as I did... 🙃

I used to work at a startup. It was a great place to work until they got big enough to establish an HR department, which was actually rather late, after we had about 1000 folks. With in a couple of years the place was full of folks who didn't really care about the product any more and just wanted to make it like they did wherever they came from. I was relieved when they laid me off in the third round of op ex reduction. Maybe that's just part and parcel of becoming a successful (large) company. I still use the product, and some times just have to bang my head against the desk when I see some of the changes they've made to the industry leading interface. It seems like the company became intent on driving the dedicated and smart folks out.

Great video

hahah there were a bunch of tr0gl0dytes praising some youtuber for hiring an hr department and glazing him for "caring" about his workers. humans are dumber than dolphins

Do people actually think HR is resources for humans? It's resource management. They're there to gaslight you into thinking you're lucky to have the job. And you're right. If they cared about lawsuits they'd keep a lot of paperwork and fire harassers.

havent watched yet, but i will say off the bat that recently it occurred to me that "human resources" alone as a name implies we as people are just resources used for benefit of the company. this should be a great video

Different types of slick psychological attacks that u too slow to detect. You come home thinking about it and it has your head ringing.

Im HR, im here to do my job. So are you. Im not your friend and youre definitely not mine. And thats okay! Im here for resources, im here for answers and im here for payroll, etc. Every single employee is a liability, as am i. Your managers and coworkers are the ones ratting you out lmao

18:42 That was my experience, they got lawyers on me when I left a review.

Companies will have this and turn around and tell you why would you need a Union that you have to pay to represent you?

Fuck hr

Bro has no idea what working in manufacturing is like

If in doubt when to go to HR, or a lawyer, a union rep, or press, the answer is never go to HR.

We didn’t have HR until we let women in the workplace. And I’m convinced women were only allowed at 1st as a result of male bosses wanting to bang their employees wives and look how it bit them in the ass 😂

You guys seem to forget HR workers are…well…workers. They still have to put up with manegement BS and that includes recruitment/training. Most of the time, HR reps will have to report some sort of “culture” stats like turnover rate and shit, thus you see those satisfaction surveys and all when really they’re just trying to get management off their asses, just like any other field/job. Remember, it’s not the HR department that fired you, it’s C/D level management that told HR to fire you under any false pretense like “doesn’t fit the culture” or some shit like that when they really just want to cut budget. Don’t go jumping on the HR reps throats as they’re just doing their job. I agree with most points of the video but assuming HR is an autocracy and make decisions of their own is just false.

There is no surprise when the departament that refers to you as a resource treats you and manages you like one.

The entire workforce at my company was incredibly happy working remotely for four years. We were ordered back to work early in 2024. Everyone is pretty miserable now. Not sure how the company is benefiting.

I have always heard that HR departments came about because women began entering the corporate workplace. HR people are among the most useless people on the planet.

Fuck HR

HR isn’t your friend, but that doesn’t mean they are your enemy. HR is useful when the employee and employers goals meet. Which is quite often. It’s only when there is an imbalance of employer/employee interests that it’s an issue.

Okay I'm 4 minutes in and I'm detecting a very anti-capitalism vibe. You make it sound like profit is bad or something. I mean all profit is defined as what you have left over after expenses and liabilities. What company goes into business to lose money? You act like HR is only in the private sector when they have HR in government. Also a company doesn't "own you" indentured servitude is illegal.

This is a hilarious conspiracy theory. Sounds like some people just work in toxic companies.

Im in HR & im totally ur friend tf

Are you gay? The tone and inflections in your voice is kinda like gays? No?

Only the UNION makes us strong.

I agree that HR is partly used to keep workers content so that they keep working, but Id also add that it’s meant to dissuade workers from communicating issues with their coworkers and realizing their shared problems that the company refuses to deal with. By gaining the trust of the workers, the HR department does something corporations truly value, preventing the organization of unions.

HR is for the company, not you.

"HR isn't your friend" In other news: Water is wet, The sky is blue, A dollar is a dollar and for every 60 seconds that pass in America, A minute passes in Africa.

I know theyre not my friend. They always fire me. 😅

Can we record our conversations with bosses, does everything legal disaster depend on them making a paper trail, that would be hard to obtain carbon copies in anyway?

The only reason HR exists is because we started allowing women into the workplace

Where I work right now they lied to us and said our HR was this one lady. Come to find out she’s just our accountant, we don’t have an HR and if we do they keep them buried away from us.

Think about it, do they let HR people into your union? Do HR people have a union? I kind of want to sit in on that meeting.

i thought HR was to protect employees and keep peace ☹️ guess i can cross hr off the list of potential careers

“Human Resources” is at least an honest way of describing the function of HR, But now HR departments are being re-named the “People team” to paint HR as a friendly image that employees can trust

HR is not your friend but also not your enemy. It is a tool. Neutral.

This is great. Subscribed. I would love to hear your thoughts in a video on good boss vs. bad boss

This is great. Subscribed. I would love to hear your thoughts in a video on good boss vs. bad boss

I really hope you will make the office space analysis you talked about in your last video.