Courtesy of the student blog at blog.lib.umn.edu
I spent many years as the head of a Human Resources function in a mid-sized company. The department is responsible for being an advocate for the employee and the company. That’s like being for and against something at the same time. In reality policies that are good for the employee are good for the company. Happy employees are the goal. Oh yeah, next to earnings.
Over the course of my years, I was involved in many….ummm….interesting situations. Here are a few of the more bizarre.
Declining date requests – If the wrong (not a stud muffin) person invited someone out, I was asked to intervene under the guise of harassment. Really? Whatever happened to just saying, “No, I’m not interested?” I had to do this more times than I care to remember. Sometimes it was just an innocent request for lunch (no date). The…