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She's new to the job.
Been with Spot about the same amount of time as I have but is less than half my age (which I really don't hold against her, I promise).
This is her first HR position before that she was an ETL-Softlines.
(And before that college.)
Her solution to everything is to go by the book and when that doesn't work it must mean someone else wasn't.
I've been been pretty brutal at the chat sessions to the point where I'm pretty much persona non grata.
So here is what I'd like to say but probably won't because I know she won't get it (at least for a couple more years.)
When you ask the people in the next session if they have any comments, after the one or two vocal people get done and the rest are just staring at you consider this;
Those people come from some amazing places.
You have TMs who have lost families in hurricanes and tidal waves that were only news stories to you.
There are people sitting at that table with college degrees from other countries who were professional people before they came here, some who had family tortured and left one step ahead of a government willing to do the same to them.
There are young men and women who saw friends gunned down in the street because they wore the wrong colors in a neighborhood or talked to the wrong boy.
You have people here who have run businesses, managed people, some even who have sat in positions similar to yours.
Most of all there are long term TM's who remember what this company was like in the days when it seemed to care what they thought and treated them accordingly.
Because of the economy, life decisions, a myriad of situations you couldn't possibly understand unless you walked in their shoes, they now depend on you to pay their bills and lead them day to day.
You can't treat them like children or wayward cattle.
This means you have to consider them as people not pawns to move around to fit in the slots that Spot has set down for you.
You need to protect them from the crap that comes from above and build them up so you have loyalty and respect.
You're young and that isn't a bad thing. People like youthful energy when it is at their side, helping them, giving them backup, giving them hope.
They don't need it chirping at them, nagging them to be better by a book that they have no influence on and no respect for.
Do anybody else have something they would like to add?
Been with Spot about the same amount of time as I have but is less than half my age (which I really don't hold against her, I promise).
This is her first HR position before that she was an ETL-Softlines.
(And before that college.)
Her solution to everything is to go by the book and when that doesn't work it must mean someone else wasn't.
I've been been pretty brutal at the chat sessions to the point where I'm pretty much persona non grata.
So here is what I'd like to say but probably won't because I know she won't get it (at least for a couple more years.)
When you ask the people in the next session if they have any comments, after the one or two vocal people get done and the rest are just staring at you consider this;
Those people come from some amazing places.
You have TMs who have lost families in hurricanes and tidal waves that were only news stories to you.
There are people sitting at that table with college degrees from other countries who were professional people before they came here, some who had family tortured and left one step ahead of a government willing to do the same to them.
There are young men and women who saw friends gunned down in the street because they wore the wrong colors in a neighborhood or talked to the wrong boy.
You have people here who have run businesses, managed people, some even who have sat in positions similar to yours.
Most of all there are long term TM's who remember what this company was like in the days when it seemed to care what they thought and treated them accordingly.
Because of the economy, life decisions, a myriad of situations you couldn't possibly understand unless you walked in their shoes, they now depend on you to pay their bills and lead them day to day.
You can't treat them like children or wayward cattle.
This means you have to consider them as people not pawns to move around to fit in the slots that Spot has set down for you.
You need to protect them from the crap that comes from above and build them up so you have loyalty and respect.
You're young and that isn't a bad thing. People like youthful energy when it is at their side, helping them, giving them backup, giving them hope.
They don't need it chirping at them, nagging them to be better by a book that they have no influence on and no respect for.
Do anybody else have something they would like to add?
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