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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by criley2 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:20PM (#34264098)
HR going rogue with political nonsense (I can only imagine some libertarian HR telling everyone 'deal with it yourselves!' lol) is not the fault of that HR, it's the fault of incompetent executives. The issue is never one individual, it's a broken system letting a single individual negatively influence it.
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by bushbaba on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:42PM (#34264443)
How do you fire the HR exec when HR itself handles the firings.
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by jon-wood on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:53PM (#34264608)
The CEO does it. Or the board if they won’t. There’s also someone higher up the tree.
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by lliamander on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:10PM (#34265797)
It's not entirely the executives' fault. The ambiguities in civil rights law mean that often one has to employ a more politically radical HR department to shield against lawsuits.
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by epicureanideal on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:22PM (#34265969)
I was looking for a link I know exists about this. Do you happen to know the very long article, or maybe book that was written about this topic?
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by lliamander on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:32PM (#34266126)
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j...
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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by epicureanideal on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:45PM (#34268020)
That's the one! Thank you!

And that article mentions this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Equal-Opportunity-Frank-Dob...

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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by lliamander on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:35PM (#34269236)
Interesting! I overlooked that reference.

Another, more polemical book on the subject would be Christopher Caldwell's Age of Entitlement, which I haven't had a chance to read yet, but from what I understand makes the argument that the 1964 Civil Rights Act caused these issues.

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