Avoid HR People

HR works for the Company, not you - that's the first thing you must understand.

Such a pity they are paid just as good as those who actually do real work and are probably one of the last to get laid off. HR at GE is also a disaster, basically another brainwashing function and just white collar postman - delivering corporate speak as go betweens.

GE is/was a great company, pity that when the HR is such an epic fail one can only imagine the kind of people they will hire in the future aka their own kind. Heck, lets not even talk about hiring - retention of good people is a joke.

Cover your asses and never ever give your life to GE or any company for that matter, always upgrade yourself and never get too comfortable.

Kind regards,

A recent employee who managed to secure something way better and also an employer that actually treats you like a person :)

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Don't know that you can avoid HR people, but absolutely true that they work for the company and not for the employees. In the case of GE, their main job is to make sure the company does not get sued. It's helpful to understand this as early in your career as possible, regardless of what company you work for.

Yes, avoid HR !

The real reason you got laid off is because God hates you and wants you to be miserable. Happy Easter!

the HR leader who delivered me my layoff message at GE Schenectady was laid off herself in a later round a few months later

@hkv

Good response but the union guys don't want to talk about HR. They are play acting for each other by b--ching about management.

Hr doesn't work for the company. The company works for HR. That's what Jack wanted.

Jack Welch:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140324053712-86541065-so-many-leaders-get-this-wrong/

*We've always said that human resources should be the most powerful part of an organization. So why, in reality, is its impact more often felt in a negative way?

Because human resources, unfortunately, often operates as a cloak-and-dagger society or a health-and-happiness sideshow. Those are extremes, of course, but if there is anything we have learned over the past five years of traveling and talking to business groups, it is that HR rarely functions as it should. That’s an outrage, made only more frustrating by the fact that most leaders aren’t scrambling to fix it.

Look, HR should be every company’s “killer app.” What could possibly be more important than who gets hired, developed, promoted, or moved out the door? Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.*

The big shift after Jack left was that focusing on the culture took priority over the numbers.

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