Human resources employees. What are your best "HR nightmare" stories?(r/AskReddit)

[@ma.stellatumlos8700]

30 years in HR.I had to convince an employee to resign as he used official social media to curse and fight with someone. I was with a junior . All the time we were in discussion he was consulting with an imaginary counsel. He would repeat everything I said to his invisible counsel and appear to listen and nod. My junior was so scared. Good thing his counsel was wise and made him agree to quit. This was the weirdest 1 hour dialogue in my entire career.

[@sparkypikachu7776]

Could you please explain to me why someone just cursing & fighting on SM is a fireable offense? Seems a biiit minor to me like we all have those times I mean Ik it's unprofessional but still...

[@JennsCorner777]

@@sparkypikachu7776 Because it was the Business's sm not his own. There's a level of professionalism to it. He's misrepresenting the company and can cost them clients, money, business deals etc. He can also cause liability issues for the company. It looks really badly on them.

[@KazumiKiguma]

@@sparkypikachu7776 Official, as in, the company's, not his personal one. Even then, if his personal stated on it largely that he worked for them, that's him representing the company, and looks terrible for them.

[@TheMusicalElitist]

@@sparkypikachu7776company reputation. Is that obvious?

[@squeakybb]

At my work we have an HR manager for our location that reports to the greater corporate HR. One of my coworkers had a relative pass away, and asked for the paperwork to begin the bereavement process so she could go to the funeral etc. The HR manager refused saying that because she had another relative pass away earlier in the year she couldn't qualify for bereavement like there was a limit to how many people could die in your family per year. She got chewed out by so many higher ups that week.

[@Arak_Drakoniz]

My friend, who was an HR, told me a story about how one of the supervisors wanted to write up an employee for yelling “Hail Satan” in the break room and telling coworkers “Vaya con Satanas.” She told me that she had never been more pissed off at a supervisor because the employee could have sued them for discrimination.

[@witchy90210]

I'm studying to work in HR, but my job has me talking to HR people everyday. This comes up to often but, when an employee requests a chair due to a disability and an employer refuses to buy them a chair because they don't want employees sitting at work. The fact employers would rather get sued by the federal or state government because they don't want people to sit baffles me, and their HR people. So many in HR are decent people and care about the employees, and avoiding lawsuits, but managers think if they keep refusing the employee will just stop asking.

[@jamieslingsby9907]

Luckily my lower back isnt too bad on most days nowadays, I had about 2 months off work because it was horrendous (got referred to physiotherapy for 6 months) HR said i can ask to have a chair whenever I want at work, haven't really had to use it except for on maybe 1 or 2 occasions but it's nice to know I can take a break and sit down for a while, can't do all aspects of my job sat down though, when I first went back to work I had an interesting problem though, If I was stood up for too long my back would start hurting but if i sat down for too long it'd start hurting too

[@valerief1231]

The HR department is a strange place, the people that work their have two types of employees a) they have no soul, or b) they are proficient in the dark arts. The whole department is exalted as the priests and pastors of the company, they have everyone’s best interest at heart and keep everyone safe. The reality is they ONLY care about the cult they work for, they are wolves in sheep’s clothing seeming to care while they cross examine you and find ways to delete you from the cult if you don’t drink the kool-aid. They’re the dirty cops of every company ever.

[@jeannebuttons5301]

The one asking why the HR did nothing about hospice patients: with precious few exceptions It's usually the job of the HR person to make sure that their company doesn't get screwed over by lawsuits that involve the people working for them. The issues that you were reporting or less about the co-workers and more of the clients and as long as the relevant governing bodies don't find out about it then they don't have to worry about it. If that place is still in business I highly recommend sending an anonymous tip to the relevant health and safety ethics committees in your area and let them know that there's a possibility if it's not a surprise visit that the facility will cover up their wrongdoing

[@RayzeCruxis]

I was a witness but I was trying to turn in a time off form and then cops came in to arrest the head of HR for threatening former employees with a gun to not get unemployment.

[@josephtaub20]

Washington DC Police Department April 2021: Two new officers drag racing in their patrol cars both wreck, total the cars. I can only guess what was going on at HR. Male pregnancy leave: This happened in France; a man sued for equal treatment. The Minister of Labor didn't object: "If it happens, he'll get the same leave." (See Billy Crystal movie "Rabbit Test.")

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Orlando FL 🚔 Orlando.gov had a city employee, sworn 👮🏾‍♂️ Rod Johnson busted for rape, sex crimes while on duty. Johnson stated under oath ⚖ he had sex with a known prostitute & gave her $40.00 in OPD office. 🙄 Johnson, who had a long list of IA cases retired with 20yr. Full city pension, benefits.

[@amanofmanyparts9120]

As union representative I once spoke about 'male maternity leave' to a depot manager. He laughed in my face, but a few, short years later, applied for it himself when his wife became pregnant. I also called him a 'short timer' as everyone knew that he was angling to return to the area of the country that he'd been moved from. It wasn't long after that he was moved _closer to home- at his own request. Middle management: I've shat better!

[@KnakuanaRka]

@@amanofmanyparts9120 Paternity leave?

[@casscat7]

yikes i feel bad for HRs, especially when they have to deal with all the nightmare stuff. yikess

[@ostlandr]

At my former employer, HR was the HR nightmare. Worked in HR for six hellish months before they "fired" me. (Was a traineeship, so I got to go back to my old job.) I was one of two males ini the HR office. I was on a two year traineeship, and they wanted me to perform like an experieced professional from day one. The other male was an experienced HR professional, who transferred from another agency for a better commute and free parking. He quit before I did- he let the director know precisely how he'd been treated. My last day, my boss and her boss took me out to lunch- I think as a sort-of apology. The Director herself invited herself along. That was the quietest lunch out at work I was ever at.

[@luxuryballer8291]

Funny how these HR types talk mad shit about people that threaten to sue but the second one does they start pissing their pants. I've worked at many places in my life and have never seen a company that wasnt opening itself up to massive lawsuits on a daily basis.

[@kemarisite]

"60% drug test failure rate". Reminds me of the lumber mill I worked at. Manager would regularly mention in the preshift meeting by mentioning drug paraphernalia found, people who took two hour lunches (30 minutes) smoking weed, how he himself used to use drugs so he'll recognize the signs of drug use, etc.

[@Vitorruy1]

"used to do drugs" = definetely still does

[@Rami7605]

@@Vitorruy1 lol

[@thebestcentaur]

I hope those two women sued.

[@darrenweber3308]

NDA just expired so I can talk about this now! I used to work in nursing homes, I was in dietary. That doesn't sound like it'd get me a lot of information... However, the residents always felt comfortable sharing things with me. It took me a very short amount of time to develop a mental list of which CNAs and PCTs actually did their jobs. Some of the residents had very sad or even abusive stories, which I wrote down and then emailed to management and HR. Management couldn't do anything bc the owner wouldn't allow them to and threatened to fire them. HR just didn't do anything bc they're busy being trained (new hires) or getting fired (the ones that were there long enough to see what goes on in that place). There were only 4 nurses total, LPNs, and only 1 or 2 would be there at a time. There were no RNs. We were required to have at least 1 RN supervisor at each nurses station every day. I saw 11 different Administrators during my time there, none of which could do anything about the issues and would eventually quit bc the owner was such a dong. Fun fact: there was a policy that, if you bought anything FOR WORK, the company would reimburse you for it. This was so that, once the company paid you for your stuff, it would be their stuff. Maintenance was unable to source new seals for the dish machine would continually peed dirty wash water onto the floor and wood smell. A coworker bought a small pressure washer to take care of the disgusting floor, but then the washer became so dirty and covered in grime that the employee (my coworker) didn't want it back. I then paid my coworker for the pressure washer, making it mine. I then went on Amazon and bought seals for the dish machine. The same ones maintenance had spent 6 months trying to find. Found the exact ones we needed in less than 10 minutes. I bought those and installed them. They went on the ends of the sprayer arms, as well as the connections between the sprayer arms and the wash pump. Since we always took the sprayer arms out and took the end caps off for cleaning every night, and the seals just pressed into place (no bolts or covers), I didn't have to do any disassembly that I wasn't already doing as part of my nightly cleaning. I replaced the seals and kept the old ones double bagged on zip lock bags to contain the smell. I was going to throw the old ones away once the company acknowledged that they were no longer usable and paid me for the new ones that I'd provided. They didn't pay me for my seals, meaning those seals were still mine and not company property. I quit a week later after my boss scheduled me on a double without asking. I said I couldn't do it, as I had to take my grandfather to dialysis that morning (I actually did have to do this every Tuesday and Saturday). He refused to listen to me and told me that he'd fire me if I wasn't there for my shift. I said "Okay" and sent him an email with a copy of my employee contact, which explicitly stated that I was an evening employee. I didn't get fired. A few days later, it was time for my shift on a Monday. I pulled into the parking lot and saw a few fancy cars that I don't remember seeing there before. It was the owner and his gang of rich friends. I managed to sneak past them (they were busy yelling at the freshly hired administrator) and went back to the kitchen to begin my shift. Once we'd finished washing dishes from lunch, morning shift left, and I told my only coworker (2 people total in the kitchen that day) that they deserved an early break, and they won't want to be in here for what's about to happen. I then cleaned the dish machine, took my seals out and put the old ones back, and pressure washed the walls in dish room, creating a few clean spots that really highlighted the amount of mold, mildew, etc that was growing everywhere I hadn't pressure washed. I then took the pressure washer (the company never paid me for it) and my seals (they never paid for those either) and snuck them out to my car during a shift change. A PCT saw me with the pressure washer and I just said the owner was here and he wanted some cleaning done, and she was just like cool, whatever, and didn't question it. I then left. I drove back home where I informed my grandparents that I'd just quit my job. Then I cleaned up the pressure washer, and did a bunch of sidewalks and driveways around the neighborhood for extra cash while I was between jobs. The company took me to court for stealing the pressure washer and the seals from the dish machine. Neither of these were company property. I challenged them on this, proved myself correct, and challenged them on all the paychecks that bounced or were written incorrectly. I won a bunch of money after another hearing. I do feel bad for the coworker who came back to break to find herself alone in the kitchen (we were required to have at least 3 people at all times), but I just couldn't do it anymore. It was shitty work with management who didn't care, paychecks that were wrong more than half the time, and a boss with a dong for a brain. I think my favorite part was the sheer lack of records. During their attempt to prove that my paychecks were correct (they most definitely were not), they couldn't find my date of hiring. I found it in my onboarding papers which I'd given to my lawyer. He'd asked me for everything I had on/from the company, even if it didn't seem relevant at the time. I'm glad he did this, since the company's clear mistreatment of its employees got me an extra chunk of cash added to my award. I walked away much richer than I ever would've been if I'd kept working for them, even if I'd moved to a department head and got a raise.

[@BlatantDisregardForYourFeels]

Great story

[@KitsuneGB-hc9zb]

Why didn’t you report them to any sort of govt agrncy

[@joshuawinters7644]

Bad News For The Guy Mentioned In The Story At 29:45, According To Title VII Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, LGBT Discrimination Is Illegal In The US, Meaning Unless They Were Sexually Harassed, They Cannot Have That Person Fired

[@gabrield5202]

The story at 8:40 is fake, that's from an Episode of the Office (Literally word for word) it's when Toby was speaking to Michael about not giving the boy scouts a check at their casino party

[@oldbatwit5102]

Lots of these stories are fake.

[@Justicar2503]

Oh really?!

[@sparkypikachu7776]

Oof

[@sparkypikachu7776]

That sucks like majorly really makes me not want to watch the vid, not blaming the vid maker just wish I could actually believe them now oof

[@ospreyphil8995]

Half this video is stupid Office references

[@giantpotatoes1682]

My very first job was a internship at an HR office and oh boy was it toxic there. My supervisor would come to me to complain about other workers. There was nothing I could do to get out of the situation because she's my boss. She would always complain about everyone but specifically this one lady who was a bit big and lazy. She was the sweetest lady but my supervisors are always referred to her as "fat ass" rather than her name whenever she wasn't around. This supervisor also physically fought another employee over a cart... in the front lobby.

[@CodeSiber]

Biggest issue I had was when I worked at Amazon we formed a group that talked a lot of crap and surprisingly I’m the one who got reported, it wasn’t like I could throw everyone under the bus but this was someone in that circle who just wanted to “teach me a lesson” and I guess it was because I referred to our labor as monkey work and that was enough to get me a finale warning.

[@ostlandr]

Amazon: Treats its workers like crap, and uses the "three strikes" rule (or a variation thereof.) Also Amazon: Complains bitterly that staff turnover is costing them North of a Billion dollars a year.

[@sfsin3380]

A story from my HR coworkers old job. This in Europe FYI. Coworker gets a all hand on deck everyone need to work on this call. Turns out a department manager had been pulling power triping barely legal BS for years and been getting away with it for year because the HR guy incharge of that department was the managers buddy. Well the inevitable happened he crossed the line and barely legal became completely illegal and the HR guy tried to brush that off like the rest making everything 100 times worse by putting that what the manager did in writing and saying it OK (when it real wasn't) handing the employee a slam dunk lawsuit. Everyone in HR was called in because every complaint against that manager had to be rechecked incase this wasn't the first time. Manager kept his job surprisingly HR guy did not.

[@mechengr1731]

Wouldn't the purse story open the owners up to wrongful termination suits? Dude basically confirmed they were telling the truth since his only defense was "I didn't orgasm".

[@shadesofjade]

Gottverdammtscheisse

[@bolikde9389]

The translation would be like: God fucking dammit.

[@ostlandr]

Kid at my school was an Army Brat, came back from being in Germany with his dad. He started cursing out a kid in German. Everybody went silent. When the school still had German classes, Mrs. Butts taught them. She was fluent in German. Gave him detention, and made it stick.

[@madelinegarber7860]

It sounded like someone trying to drown Donald Duck while tooting a tuba. Lmfaooo!

[@joshuawinters7644]

17:06, The Idiot Owners Fired The Wrong Employee(s), Even If He Didn't Orgasm, He (And The Company) Could Still Be Charged With Sexual Harassment (Not To Mention The Possible Wrongful Termination Lawsuit)

[@giantpotatoes1682]

So back when I worked at HR there was this old lady that came in to fill out her new hire paperwork. Everything was going smoothly until she looked at my co-worker and asked her "will cocaine come through the drug test?" The employee was like "No. Have you been doing cocaine?" The old lady said no but her husband has been doing cocaine around her. This whole thing escalates to her talking about how she went to a different country to get some cancer treatment and when she came back she found that out that her husband had hired tons of prostitutes and was doing tons of drugs. The old lady was getting really graphic into it though. She was talking about every detail including all the Viagra that was laying around their house. This was near Halloween so to keep a straight face I started shoving chocolate in my face. But she started making sex jokes and I couldn't stay in there anymore so I had to leave and when I came back the old lady was gone and so was half of the staff who also ran away around the time I did.😂

[@darth-gerry6659]

Remember HR is not your friend and only care about the company.

[@jessisymins7141]

I’m horrified now cause I’m starting a HR job here soon 👀

[@johnkeating2828]

Love The office reference.

[@chriswyattyearwood]

Yea I caught that too

[@XLFz882]

Yes

[@onlyme4555]

Which one? 🤣

[@ireneavila8294]

@@onlyme4555 8:40

[@sassynana5201]

HR does NOT work for the best interests of the employees; HR is a tool used for the sole benefit of the company.

[@brianschuerch7059]

Hey, don't knock White Castle, especially at 3 AM 😍

[@RayzeCruxis]

Especially when you need to sober up

[@threeducks157]

Brand new assistant manager asks for the number of that "delivery dude" and texts him a ton of nudes and other nasty texts, delivery dude aka me was pissed as im happily married andnim also not the delivery dude im the freaking owner...

[@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

The story about not inviting kids to the casino office party, that would serve alcoholic beverages and hooters was catering? It’s from The Office.

[@TheMidnightstar2]

At my job a couple years ago, we had lost our hr manager who moved and got a new one from corporate. She was never bad to me but picked favorites, picked on people who weren't favored one of whom was my family, and had that slimey fake nice personality. One day she walked out ad quit because she got into a fight with one of her not-liked employees and slapped them. A 2 years later a team lead was fired for a reason unknown to me and was hired by the company subcontracted to handle our trash. He was at our job site and had an accident with a forklift that resulted in 2 dislocated joints and a crushed ankle. I was never privy to what happened afterward but I can't imagine being anything but an hr nightmare.

[@rocketman-michael4262]

Remember HR is not your friend there there to help the company not you

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

Might be in deep shit with HR, because I put the toilet paper dispenser too close to the door

[@whidbeyrules5566]

I'm the only person at my job in the mornings as I open the place. No one there. The deer hooves on concrete will give me a bit of a jump on occassion.

[@doodleferp8158]

Two people had the exact same story about a trainee being fired for homophobia...

[@micaheddings]

normalize not putting the static and beep in between each one. i try to sleep to these but cannot because of that

[@robertmaybeth3434]

TIL: new word: "PERV WHACKING"! Thx op I am using that

[@PaulaCollins-wc1hn]

Re the hr team at GM , do they know anything about any other department that is not hr ? In surebthey would fail too. Wow.

[@rodrigogirao8344]

22:33 I bet the "wrong" pronunciation of giga is a soft G -- the one that most scientists hold as the CORRECT one.

[@flyguyhomo4904]

Why is there sm The Office stuff in here

[@99stranger99]

I wonder if those who worked in HR and changed professions think that it is a great job and they do good things... The HR director of the company I work for liked an article talking about HR being modern corporate true heroes, and knowing how little they do and how much pople there are I was wondering if they truly believe that

[@AngryitNerd]

whats with people whacking off at work...

[@kellygrubbs915]

I’ve only had an issue with one HR cow in all my 53 years! Lol. This woman was a stone cold trip! Hated having to go to her with any issue! She sat behind a window that slid open for you to speak with her and would sit and glare at you through the window and after a good 5 mins or so of that she would roll her eyes and slide the window open and say “WHAT”???? I don’t take kindly to people being an straight up jerk to me for no reason but I did all I could in my 7 years there to not let her get under my skin seeing I rarely had to deal with her but on that particular day I finally commented to her that it must really be so hard to be so absolutely miserable that you feel the need to be nasty to absolutely EVERYONE you come in contact and that seeing that’s what her job required on a constant basis (contact with employees) that maybe, just maybe she should find another job that she would be happier with! She never bothered to be nasty to me again though I did hear at a later date that during a conversation with some of the front end employees with out company about another employee she literally said “Just like a “N” word (racial slur)! and this HR cow was literally also of the African American race!!!! I seriously think that she thought of herself much higher above EVERYONE else because her comment was reported to our highest manager and when he came to her about it and threatened her job over the blatant racial slur she literally said to him “You can’t fire me because I’m corporate “! I left there after 7 years back in 2013 and as far as I know the witch is still there. 🤦‍♀️🥴

[@robertmaybeth3434]

That gave me a stroke trying to read that, THX A LOT KELLY BUBS

[@studogable]

4:36 - what the hell business were they running? Not that it wouldn't be cool.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

hmm , alien observation report thus far positives noted thus far , while dual edged humans are hyper capable to bond , even cross species , and even to inert subjects potential negative depending on species , also , they can and will copulate in all spaces or locations at least once be it for personal reasons or in causal celebratory and stress reducing ways

[@owenmccallister4985]

13:12 hmmm, seems familiar

[@vladimirenlow4388]

Rotten editing on this series, especially compared to other Reddit response compilations I've seen. Too many one-line posts devoid of content, needless repeat references to "The Office", and one story almost repeated verbatim.

[@loqutisborg5416]

At 30: 40 or so - - There's another variation of this story elsewhere on youtube. I personally think it's BULLSHIT

[@mikehilbert9349]

WTF is it with people and 💩. I swear, since millennials hit college age, the poop smearing stories heve just appeared everywhere.

[@smartchip]

personnel department, did the job, was very small ( in comparison to hr) thing was good, moral high, etc, then years later the banksters, accountants and lawyers in corporate world created the abomination called human resources, basically the humans are there to be used, for the betterment and advancement of the company aka upper and board members, who then are interested in short term gain of themselves, that's why companies are relying on the legacy name of the company to sell inferior products or services, it all started from the American management mantra, me me me, I am alright Jack screw you, get yours before the other person, disagree? Well be more observant, look around, apple pays close to no tax, etc, also hr dept are full of the worst type of people ( jobs worth etc) people with higher education qualifications like, gender studies, interpretative dance, women studies, etc, the worse ones are in the public sector, cannot be sacked or anything ( obviously nothing crazy, like setting the place on fire, etc)

[@TheLittlemonster333]

Terrible. Opposite of high quality content. Awful text to speech

[@onlyme4555]

And multiple repeated stories/comments

[@phlushphish793]

In case you haven't heard it already, HR is there to protect the company, not employees. That being said, I have a few stories of my own. Co. I was employed at hired a cute, young 20-something blonde girl. All the guys were drooling/commenting about her, which of course, made all the other females jealous. Girl comes in one day in Capris pants, fashionable at the time, that stop at the calf. HR 'lady' sees her come into the office, emails her supervisor about the 'inappropriate attire' and to send her home to change. Supervisor had the same pants on, but tells employee, "She didn't tell ME to go home!" I also had a gay manager, who immediately filled all positions with his gay friends. It was nauseating! Even had a customer say, "Gee, there's a lot of gay people employed here, huh?"

[@Rami7605]

You are blonde and gay