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sarahsweets · Nov 21, 2019 at 04:46 AM

Oh @StreetcarBlanche sometimes I wish I could ride on your shoulder and tell people to go F themselves for you!

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Originally Posted by StreetcarBlanche

Example #1
"I don't want to pay the fee to break the contract to hire you."

This is what the HR woman told me when I asked her why she wouldn't consider hiring me for their open front desk position, rather than pay the temp agency that brought me in for an interview.

To me this is a dishonest Passive aggressive cop out and proof that this woman is a wimp. If she didnt like the job you were doing or want you to continue then she should come out and say so and let you go on the spot. But she didn't so rather than owning up to whatever nepotistisc backhanded ways they hire permanent she parroted some made up BS.

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I thought that was really passive-aggressive, tacky, and totally dismissive of my stellar resume and work experience. In short, telling a job candidate they are not worth hiring, because the company doesn't want to pay a fee is really just rude. It was also her way of telling me, that even if I do a great job as their front desk person, she won't bother hiring me. They have the position posted on their company website. I'm here as a filler. It's insulting.

She is also an idiot. Lets say you are someone with evil tendancies. What's to stop you from sabotaging the company or other misdeeds. Why would you say that to someone and then like... send them back to their lunch break and expect them to show up in the morning and do their job?

Example #2
Last week, an outside sales rep yelled at me on the phone. So, I emailed his supervisor, and cc'd the human resources woman (had to, no choice). The outside sales rep's supervisor called me to apologize for his employee's behavior with me on the phone and assured me that I wouldn't be fired.
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If you followed protocol I do not understand the issue.

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Yet, the horrid lady in human resources wants to talk to me about it. I assume she is going to "fire" me as their front desk person, otherwise, despite the situation being resolved, I don't see why she'd need to talk to me about it. She won't hire me full-time. I found that to be really strange and off-putting. Why do you need to talk to me to follow up about one of your employees being really inappropriate with me on the phone if the matter was already resolved. It's not like his supervisor didn't check in with her -- I know that he did because he told me he would.

Is she they only HR person you get to deal with or is their more than one?

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Why do people who work in human resources act so holier than thou, so passive aggressive, so dismissive?

I think its a powertrip thing. They know they have your life in their pockets. One little documentation of a slight and they can F you over.