why must we live in the darkest timeline
Oct. 25th, 2022 06:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatYesterday we had the workplace annual mandatory anti-harassment training, which I always want to find valuable. It was okay, but I felt it did a disservice to the "scenario evaluation" section by not acknowledging that no scenario exists in a vacuum. The context matters!
I mean, if they want to massively oversimplify by boiling everything down to one pithy phrase ("impact vs intent"), then fine, that seems like a very corporate thing to do. But I thought the most true and telling moment of the presentation was when a former HR employee (now in a different role) said that the thing they were most proud of from their time in HR was that they "never had to defend the company against a serious harassment case."
They apparently thought we would all find this inspiring and representative of what a great "culture" the company has. Mostly I found it a chilling reminder that HR is never, ever on the side of the employee.
I mean, if they want to massively oversimplify by boiling everything down to one pithy phrase ("impact vs intent"), then fine, that seems like a very corporate thing to do. But I thought the most true and telling moment of the presentation was when a former HR employee (now in a different role) said that the thing they were most proud of from their time in HR was that they "never had to defend the company against a serious harassment case."
They apparently thought we would all find this inspiring and representative of what a great "culture" the company has. Mostly I found it a chilling reminder that HR is never, ever on the side of the employee.
