Things you want to say to employees but can't because you're professional...

Oh, Deborah... we could have a whole forum just for that! ;)

I have also said this............

Quite often Im faced with ( as I'm sure most HR are at some point) " I want more money" I haven't had a pay rise in X amount of time.. but then those same people moan about the amount of work they have to do when you try to develop them so they can earn more money...( clearly a lack of understanding but I'm sure most business's will not pay employees for a rate that isn't suited to the job) Would you pay a cleaner a directors wage?
It would be wrong for me to write what my brain says....

moments when I have struggled to maintain my "neutral HR face" recently:
- I have been here 11 months now, and it's been 5 months since I had a payrise so I think I should be paid more (your line manager thinks otherwise based on your performance since the last one)
- it's been a complicated journey towards determining my sexuality but I am now sure that I'm (by this point I was mentally sticking my fingers in my ears yelling lalala)
- I was shocked to realise that if I wanted to learn a new skill I would have to do it myself (er, yes, we can provide the materials but we can't learn it for you...)
- why was my expenses claim for professional registration fees turned down? (Because it relates to your hobby not your job, and you didn't ask, you just sent us an invoice.)
- why can't I continue to work full-time and get paid full-time while I do a full-time course for a year? (Er...really?)
- some of my colleagues are teasing my about my hobby of pole fitness (may I suggest you stop demonstrating it in the kitchen?)
[in response to asking about any skills they felt were under-used in their role] Well, I'm a really strong swimmer. (excellent, next time we need that on the 4th floor of a software co, I'll let you know).

Can you tell I've just finished 80+ career development coaching sessions? I am people-d out!

A thread that keeps on giving... so thanks again to Robey for starting it.

This popped into my Facebook feed this morning from my friend, Euan.

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As Robey said himself on another thread...

“Humans are weird and for some reason we have decided to make them our profession.”

I could do with a little "boring", every now and then...

What a wonderful post Robey! After a truly awful week where I have seriously considered taking a step back from HR because everything I did seemed to have a backlash, it is great to know that we all go through the same things! Has anyone ever thought that "Referee for the impossible" might be a better title for our role?! Thanks for posting, this has made my day (and made my week little more bearable :-) )

Sometimes it's more like putting kiddies back in their prams and picking up the toys they've thrown all over the place. Parenting can be a great preparation for some parts of HR work

I'm an L&D specialist, and the biggest part of my role is looking after our apprenticeship scheme. There are definitely times when I feel like a glorified babysitter!

I dunno...I can ban my kids from being in the same room as me but employees tend to frown on that...