This unbelievable HR opened my eyes! — Continued

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Dear Readers, 

Thank you for coming here!

I decided that enough was enough. I did not have the time to keep calling her and listening to her excuses.

So I shot an email to her, asking when the issue can be resolved, ccing her manager and the managing director.

She did not reply my email. No one did.

But the issue got solved the same day.

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The take-away for me is to defend what is rightfully ours.

1. Know what is rightfully ours: your leave, pay etc etc
2. Defend rigorously when these are offended, preferably with proof, i.e. with emails, not calls.
3. If not, the other party might see this as something to take advantage of. And the result is wasted time and frustration for us. 
4. It might be even bad for the other party. For example, if I insisted and she just solved the issue, I would not have shot the email to her manager and the manager director.

Being friendly is good generally; but being firm sometimes could be the best action for both parties.

To us all!

Till next time!

This unbelievable HR opened my eyes!

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Dear Readers,

Thank you for coming here!

 

It is not the first time I heard or encountered HRs who tried to make employees’ lives difficult.

But this one really opened my eyes.

She would try to undercut people by “mistakenly” miscalculating their annual leave balances, delaying their payment, pushing people to fill in forms that are not needed etc etc.

It happened to me and, from what I heard, many other colleagues.

Things would get rectified eventually, but not without repeated calls. One round of communication will never solve the problem. There would always be something else “unexpected” that would require you to call her again and again. 

It almost seems to me that all she wants is for people to call her and acknowledge her importance.

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This really opened my eyes.

The other HRs I encountered who tried to make things difficult were at least based on some company policies or contract clauses. And once agreement was reached, execution would normally go as expected.

But this one, she based on repeated mistakes. And no one is too stupid to see the “intentional-ness” behind those mistakes.

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I seriously could not understand why she would do that. 

She would not save money for the company because people will not simply let go the money they are entitled to by contract. 

All she does is annoy people and ruin the goodwill of the company.

And to her, I am sure some people would not mind filing some complaints. Worse still, she burns bridges with whoever she deals with. And when those people rise up, they probably will rule out hiring her.

She is digging her own grave career-wise.

Or am I missing something? If so, please do leave a comment to enlighten me.

I kind of want to take some actions to fix this problem.

 

Till next time!