Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend

Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by briffle on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:21PM (#34264106)

> For example, if you're being harassed, it's very often in the company's interest to stop that happening.

Unless of course, the harraser is a top performer, or VIP in their market. Remeber all that fun with Susan Fowler, an engineer at Uber that went public with her harrasment?

Or the ever infamous https://archive.ph/dUJNs

In those cases, like you said, HR protected the interests of the Company, which was in preserving these high performers. And the people who should have been protected, were screwed over.

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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by endisneigh on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:35PM (#34264319)

Though in retrospect given this conversation HR didn’t realize it was more in their interest to help Susan than the top performer

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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by mpweiher on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:57PM (#34264674)

> Susan Fowler, an engineer at Uber

I always had a problem with that case: so you start to work for one of the most unethical companies out there, a company whose business model is to circumvent regulations, a company that built software whose sole purpose was to deceive auditors.

And then you are shocked, shocked, that there is gambling^W unethical behavior going on?

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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by philwelch on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:02PM (#34265689)

Circumventing corrupt and anti-competitive regulations is not in any way morally equivalent to sexual harassment.

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Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend by tanseydavid on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:20PM (#34266767)

It is if the perpetrator can "circumvent" the consequences.

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