I wish I'd never started this thread back in August! I did get SOME helpful and interesting feedback - several different points of view - and 'problem' ceased to be a 'problem'...but this thing quickly went into a downward spiral. Everytime someone posts to the thread I get an email, because I asked to be notified, but 80+ messages later, I just want it to go away!!! How do you folks find the time for all this 'communication'???
It's easy, Hatti... We're all so darned effective and efficient we only have to really work a few hours a week. Also, a lot of people here aren't really HR professionals. They're either students looking for help with papers, or authors collecting background material for a blockbuster expose on the darker HR underworld that most people don't know exists.
Hatti, come on now, your telling us you don't enjoy the entertainment? Verbal jabbing is good for the brain. It's not always good for the blood pressure, though.
Now you're getting me hooked into this 'verbal jabbing' game. But we are a company of 205 employees - 4 locations - and an HR Dept. of ONE...ME! Now I'll get some remarks about my intelligence for allowing myself to get into such a situation...but they tell me I really am that damn good!!
My dept is one and a "half" HR people for 400 employees. I mentioned the 1:100 ratio brought up in another post, and my VP said - "see how good you are? You do the work of four!" She thought I was pretty darned funny to suggest more staff was needed. Maybe if I sucked at my job, I could get some help. Then they'd replace me with all the great help I'd hire. x;-)
I'm just relieved to know that MWild and I aren't the only ones who get after it on occasion. One of you guys should do what MWild did and settle this thing once and for all. She sent me a $50 bill and said to go out and have dinner on her. Now THAT was a kind gesture!
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My dept is one and a "half" HR people for 400 employees. I mentioned the 1:100 ratio brought up in another post, and my VP said - "see how good you are? You do the work of four!" She thought I was pretty darned funny to suggest more staff was needed. Maybe if I sucked at my job, I could get some help. Then they'd replace me with all the great help I'd hire. x;-)