As title, ours is freakin useless and I just wondered whether my expectations are too high?

 

It is a plan by the government to get useless bints who are good for sweet FA into employment.

 

Ours are rubbish also, for a firm the size of the one i work for yuou would expect better

 

We call ours the Hormone Replacements

 

Same here

oooops.......as post #4 I mean.....

 

Sounds like I shouldn't expect too much then.

Very good

 

Cardigan wearing tree huggers, not met a decent one in 25 years of employment.

They are usually idle, useless, inept and / or incompetent (or should that be incontinent !!) it also seems to be the ones who are unable to retain confidential information, they are about as secure as the DWP !

 

They make finance look barely adequate .... THATS how useless they are.

 

Do you work where I do?

 

 

As a lowly employee they are not particularly helpful. As someone slightly higher up they can help you get rid of annoying staff without being sued.

Steve

 

I refer to them as the 'Hounds of Hell' as they always protect the 'Head Vampires' when the s*it hits the fan.

 

Ahh reminds me of my interaction with Jaguar's HR dept.

All they did was bring in people from recruitment consultants. Yet PR was putting out adverts left right and centre for jobs and to apply at Jag's HR dept.

All applicants sent to HR went into the bin. Afterall, why do all the donkey work when one can just pick up the phone and get someone else to do it?

If managment had their brains in gear, they could save themselves a bundle by sacking the complete HR staff and just using the recruitment consultants direct to manage HR.

 

Agreed. Essentially it's their job to scr*w the staff over, while allowing management to keep their hands clean.


M

 

For anyone who has ever employed, sometimes you need a method of removing dead wood and numpties, that are otherwise over protected by stupid employment laws.

 

They are there to think up more schemes that involve filling forms in regarding your performance and call them PDP's, Development reviews, etc etc.

Also used as hatchet men for senior managers, at the Police it was pathetic, every time someone got pulled up for something all they had to do was to get a union rep in to pull them up on some mistake they had made in following procedure, it was amazing how they could make the unofficial sound official and then get tied in knots by someone who had just read the procedures.

 

The protection for bad employees is actually pretty poor. But the standard of most British management is even poorer. If you have a reasonable procedure in place, and stick to it, then it's d*mn nearly impossible for a sacked employee to win a tribunal. They win because slack-witted and incompetent managers either **** up the procedures, don't follow them, or there aren't any. Most managers ignore the problem for too long, then massively over-react.


M

 

To ensure that HMRC are apprised of every pound you earn and thus avoiding any embarrassing scandals. To advise due process should someone be "got rid-of". To provide reasons "why not" should someone be put forward for promotion or a pay rise.

J.

 

and not reply to any question put forward by email with regard ones employment?

 

People who were abused by normal folk as kids need jobs too.

Fatties, gingers, four eyed munsters etc....

It's payback

 

HR are usually a nightmare but never EVER forget, they have dirt on everybody in the company!