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This all about my experience of human resources during my prior struggles to find employment, and the way I've since grown to perceive HR.
So if the technology we have today can make our work more convenient, as well as doing more of our work for us; then what does this mean if the people are still going to be working a 5 day week? What it means is that there's going to be more bullshit jobs in our society. Such jobs would mainly include the likes of admin roles, telemarketers, corporate lawyers... jobs that don't offer any value to society, and often no value to the company itself. Naturally women will tend to flocculate towards these jobs.
My father was an accountant that moved into HR seven years ago. After my own experiences of HR, I was eager to find out ask ask him all about it... just to confirm it was complete BS. It made me sad to hear the stories about how some of the senior HR women would know just how to pamper their male bosses. These bosses might only get to visit the country every couple of months, so they mightn't really know what's going on. In the meantime half the staff in my dad's department would have to travel 150 miles to attend some unnecessary group hugging video conference call, just to make the senior HR ladies look good. As an example of how two faced they can be, on one occasion one of the HR women (who my dad didn't get along with) was leading the conference call. She said baffling on about how well she got on with my father over the years! One of the staff beside my dad said "gee, I didn't realise you two got on so well". My dad turned and said "neither did I!". The point being that this looked good to her boss.
As regards interviews, I just can't help but think that women, are that bit more inclined to respond to good body language and charm, over other attributes that an interviewee may have. In the last interview I had, I distinctly remember that, at the start of it, I did a good job at breaking the ice. And I feel some how that it was that, that might have had something to do with why they hired me. It felt no different from the good reactions that I get from women I flirt with... albeit in a slightly different sense. A few years back, I was interviewed by two girls of similar age for a science internship. I felt it would have been a bit more appropriate if there would have been a technical person present. I certainly didn't see how using them to interview me would have been any different from getting the man on the side of the street to do so. How did it come to be, that the likes of chemists and engineers are at the mercy of such air heads? I remember another interview I had one time, where I ending up discussing a scientific procedure with the technical person, which really made me feel that the HR lady was a loose end. I nearly felt sorry for her when, at the end, she just went through her list of competency questions
The other thing I hated about HR, was that when I was struggling to get a job, I had a few HR staff (who family members would know personally) act like as if they could help me out. One day my dad came home to say "I was talking to someone today at work, and her sister's friend works in HR in so and so company... she said that if you pass on your CV she could make sure it'll get seen to". That sort of nonsense. I've also had a few people saying "oh send on your CV, and blah blah" giving me the impression that I was in with a chance for getting positions in companies that I instinctively knew I didn't have a hope of getting. Some of the suggestions that they made were ridiculous, and the annoying thing is, that when you see them next, you've to thank them and be that bit extra obliging around them. I guess what I'm saying by this [art, is that this is another example of how HR employees 'think' they are of value.
My sister is a perfect example of an air-head, who can't do anything practical, but she thinks she's the shit because she earns lots of money in her HR job. During my struggles for a good job a year back, my sister would ring me up acting like she's an expert telling me I should apply for this job, and little would she realise that I'd have already applied for it twice in the last year. Then she'd ask me to send on my CV so she could look at it first, and then she'd email it back (this is the funny part) without having made any changes!!! Very confusing, because you'd like to see the changes before deciding to save yet another version.
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So if the technology we have today can make our work more convenient, as well as doing more of our work for us; then what does this mean if the people are still going to be working a 5 day week? What it means is that there's going to be more bullshit jobs in our society. Such jobs would mainly include the likes of admin roles, telemarketers, corporate lawyers... jobs that don't offer any value to society, and often no value to the company itself. Naturally women will tend to flocculate towards these jobs.
My father was an accountant that moved into HR seven years ago. After my own experiences of HR, I was eager to find out ask ask him all about it... just to confirm it was complete BS. It made me sad to hear the stories about how some of the senior HR women would know just how to pamper their male bosses. These bosses might only get to visit the country every couple of months, so they mightn't really know what's going on. In the meantime half the staff in my dad's department would have to travel 150 miles to attend some unnecessary group hugging video conference call, just to make the senior HR ladies look good. As an example of how two faced they can be, on one occasion one of the HR women (who my dad didn't get along with) was leading the conference call. She said baffling on about how well she got on with my father over the years! One of the staff beside my dad said "gee, I didn't realise you two got on so well". My dad turned and said "neither did I!". The point being that this looked good to her boss.
As regards interviews, I just can't help but think that women, are that bit more inclined to respond to good body language and charm, over other attributes that an interviewee may have. In the last interview I had, I distinctly remember that, at the start of it, I did a good job at breaking the ice. And I feel some how that it was that, that might have had something to do with why they hired me. It felt no different from the good reactions that I get from women I flirt with... albeit in a slightly different sense. A few years back, I was interviewed by two girls of similar age for a science internship. I felt it would have been a bit more appropriate if there would have been a technical person present. I certainly didn't see how using them to interview me would have been any different from getting the man on the side of the street to do so. How did it come to be, that the likes of chemists and engineers are at the mercy of such air heads? I remember another interview I had one time, where I ending up discussing a scientific procedure with the technical person, which really made me feel that the HR lady was a loose end. I nearly felt sorry for her when, at the end, she just went through her list of competency questions
The other thing I hated about HR, was that when I was struggling to get a job, I had a few HR staff (who family members would know personally) act like as if they could help me out. One day my dad came home to say "I was talking to someone today at work, and her sister's friend works in HR in so and so company... she said that if you pass on your CV she could make sure it'll get seen to". That sort of nonsense. I've also had a few people saying "oh send on your CV, and blah blah" giving me the impression that I was in with a chance for getting positions in companies that I instinctively knew I didn't have a hope of getting. Some of the suggestions that they made were ridiculous, and the annoying thing is, that when you see them next, you've to thank them and be that bit extra obliging around them. I guess what I'm saying by this [art, is that this is another example of how HR employees 'think' they are of value.
My sister is a perfect example of an air-head, who can't do anything practical, but she thinks she's the shit because she earns lots of money in her HR job. During my struggles for a good job a year back, my sister would ring me up acting like she's an expert telling me I should apply for this job, and little would she realise that I'd have already applied for it twice in the last year. Then she'd ask me to send on my CV so she could look at it first, and then she'd email it back (this is the funny part) without having made any changes!!! Very confusing, because you'd like to see the changes before deciding to save yet another version.
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