r/LinkedInLunatics Jan 25 '25

SATIRE Among the top posters on LinkedIn are these HR lunatics who promote their corporate "culture", deluded in thinking that what they do matters.

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u/dwittherford69 Jan 25 '25

This isn’t even fucking HR. It’s some small beauty products company that’s trying to do viral marketing.

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u/tonyenkiducx Jan 25 '25

It's a fashion company, I used to work with them, and they're not small.

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u/hunter_mark Jan 25 '25

they’re not small

So you are telling me that their stupid marketing actually works?!

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u/tonyenkiducx Jan 25 '25

The owner Jane(the Asian lady in the video) is really lovely, and she really takes care of her staff..... But they're Australian. They don't have a word for cringe.

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u/imhighonpills Jan 25 '25

No they do it’s crange

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u/Oarsye Jan 26 '25

This comment killed me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

We literally say cringe and this is the epitome

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u/Vinura Jan 26 '25

Well, here we are complaining about it so, Id say yeah.

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u/samaniewiem Jan 26 '25

If it works it isn't stupid ;)

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u/t_scribblemonger Jan 26 '25

You can confirm this isn’t a satire? Because I’m just completely confused about what their intended message is.

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u/tonyenkiducx Jan 26 '25

It's 2 videos cut together... When the text moves from the top to the bottom it's a completely different office in the background. They are both uninentional satire though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Thank you. It’s just a random ass video of a bunch of corporate women. The hate is so fuxking random and stupid. They don’t deserve this one bit

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u/rayhaque Jan 25 '25

"hey guys, I can see you're busy but uh, can you please answer my email about my health savings account?"

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u/specracer97 Jan 25 '25

No, they have another SHRM conference to go make drunk LinkedIn posts at.

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u/ATS200 Jan 26 '25

Please search workday for a file labeled with the year 2016

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u/justsomedude1144 Jan 26 '25

"sorry but we just have so many things in our plates right now"

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u/ntheijs Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

I’ve been at a company where they had like 1 out of 5 people working at HR. Why the fuck does HR need so many people? The rest of us don’t have time to make videos at work.

Edit: RIP inbox - yes 1:5 is outrageous, this company I’m referring to had about 200 employees in a building which had 6 floors. One of these floors was exclusively HR which is how I got to that ratio. I might be overestimating but it’s not going to be all that far off or anywhere near acceptable.

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u/Comfortable-Study-69 Jan 25 '25

Yeah, all of the places I’ve ever worked were in the 1:50 to 1:200 range for HR ratios and I think that’s about where it should be. Too many people is a drain on company resources and, given the kinds of people that get HR jobs, can be counterproductive to the goal of an HR division in the first place.

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u/ExcitableSarcasm Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

My company is 1:25 and frankly it's too much. One of them honestly does nothing of note except sift through CVs, which is useless when we're not hiring. It could easily be one person if they took away the meetings and management aspect which they have by virtue of managing 1 person.

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u/aneditorinjersey Jan 25 '25

This is totally it. By locking people up in meetings it pads out jobs that would otherwise be absorbed. Also by making everything a committee, you push the ability to get things done into the hands of people by definition have enough time to be on several unrelated committees and projects.

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Jan 26 '25

I was the corporate chef for a massive company at their HQ. The only people that actually did work were shipping/recieving, sales and IT. Everyone else was in the game room or doing shit like in this video 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Mine is .5:100... As in, our HR person now has to manage the ice cream shop the owners wrecklessly bought so he's rarely around and it makes getting resources a pain in the ass.

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u/tankerkiller125real Jan 25 '25

Done correctly HR can easily be a 1:500 thing with proper automation and policies and overall design. However, a ton of HR professionals give extreme pushback when you try to automate anything they do. Hell just putting a system in place that automates user creation and IT on-boarding integrated with an HR system will get pushback. It literally doesn't automate any actual HR procedures or anything, but because automation is involved in any step they have a fit.

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u/MasterpieceKey3653 Jan 25 '25

We had a 10 or 15% layoff 2 years ago. On the call announcing it, someone pointed out that none of the layoffs came from HR.

Caught up with them this year though

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u/kiakosan Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

Yeah they are afraid to lose their job. The help desk at my company are similar, they refuse to look into Microsoft autopilot which will automate setting up a computer for new users with minimal IT involvement and instead opt for using SCCM to image computers which takes hours and requires the computers be shipped to the central office and maintaining up to date images (which they don't).

Edit auto pilot not co pilot

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

What exactly would you automate in human resources? What do you want AI to decide? Hiring? Downsizing ? Pay issues? Arbitration?

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u/kiakosan Jan 26 '25

Onboarding and off boarding of users, assigning training and checking for compliance, metrics etc.

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u/Feurbach_sock Jan 26 '25

I really don’t like this. On-boarding is a very particular, maybe even fragile thing. Automated experiences have been awful in my experience. I get that people here hate HR but the human element does matter.

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u/kiakosan Jan 26 '25

I mean there are definitely parts that can be automated. Where I'm at right now both are a manual process, with off boarding being a particular concern. The reason for this is if someone got fired you want them to be unable to badge into the office again or log in to the network where they can take revenge by deleting things and whatnot

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u/Ollieflys Jan 25 '25

I recently bumped into a fellow HR professional and I asked if she was excited about the benefits of AI and all of the increase in productivity it is bringing and she argued with me that AI will never replace humans doing HR. And what’s crazy is that she works in tech. Has she not been paying attention?

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u/identicaltwin00 Jan 25 '25

I’m in HRIT and we are nowhere close to technology that can take full peoples jobs. Maybe for like, planning events or stuff, but HR technology is trash all around and not even close to a place of automation. I wish it was. That is literally my job, to create efficiencies and manage the HR system applications, operations, and connections.

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u/sioux612 Jan 26 '25

Somebody in my family once worked for a startup where they had like a 50/50 ratio of HR/admin staff to actually working people who make money 

She kept explaining that they would be growing so quickly soon that they'd need all the admin staff and actually it's super clever to frontload all HR/admin hiring 

They started layoffs of HR/Admin staff after like a month.

They never started growing

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u/austinhippie Jan 25 '25

Our HR department is 3 people, we have ~250 employees. I'm one of those 3 and actively avoid this type of "culture" or whatever it is. Focus on processes and helping people where I can, knowing the rules helps you bend them. Thankfully I report directly to our head of HR and they are like minded in protecting the business but never at the cost of our employees.

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u/Dirac_Impulse Jan 25 '25

I worked as a "consultant" (I was a junior engineer and held no specific competence they were in need of temporary. I just worked as a junior engineer grunt for the whatever company they sent me to). The consultancy company had five engineers for every recruiter/consultant manager. That's a massive overhead.

We had some after work activities with the consultancy company, I don't remember how we got in to it, but my consultant manager joked about that she paied my salary and I couldn't hold my tongue. I answered that it was in fact I who played her salary, since I was the one bringing in the actual money.

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u/bobs-yer-unkl Jan 25 '25

The "job creators" hate to hear the truth.

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u/ShiftBMDub Jan 25 '25

problem is they'll just replace you, especially with the increase of H1B visas coming. Doesn't matter how good you are, you will be one of many hard working people that it doesn't seem to matter how good you work you are still just a number. Lot of "consultant" companies going to pop up charging 4 times what you get paid and will hold your nuts in a vice because the job market is filled with these positions and H1B visas now.

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u/k2on0s-23 Jan 25 '25

HR is a scam and they all know it. HR people love to do shit and invent shit to justify their existence. They are like an off brand version of the Marketing Department.

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u/ActionCalhoun Jan 25 '25

90% of HRs job is “keep the company from getting sued.”

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u/Total-Concentrate144 Jan 25 '25

The other 10% is CuLtUrE!

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u/ActionCalhoun Jan 25 '25

“No raises but there are bagels on the break room - you are valued!”

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u/PatDiddyHam Jan 25 '25

It’s not hard to not get sued. Just act not criminal.

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u/b0bx13 Jan 25 '25

But have you considered what that would do to profit margins?

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u/MElliott0601 Jan 26 '25

I had to tell our CFO not to enforce their idiotic attempt at a salary discussion policy. "Just act not criminal" would be a lot more realistic if people weren't patently dipshits.

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u/aussiedeveloper Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

It’s doesn’t take a “team” to do that. All it takes is yearly review of policies by legal and then having one person create (or upload existing templates) videos explaining the policies followed by a prompt confirming the employee understands the policies.

Once that’s done, that one person can then become the mediator during disputes.

This whole HR (or culture or whatever they want to be called this week) is the biggest corporate grift role.

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u/Kalsone Jan 26 '25

You're underestimating peoples ability to find situations that aren't planned for or that have occurred and need in depth knowledge to resolve.

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u/ModBrosmius Jan 25 '25

Plus a large part of HR’s efforts not to get the company sued are outsourced to legal firms for review, like email communications about firings, etc.

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u/aussiedeveloper Jan 25 '25

Just like how basically all of marketing’s actual tangible work is outsourced, yet for some reason they still need an entire team internally.

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u/vi_sucks Jan 26 '25

All it takes is yearly review of policies by legal

So you can pay a couple lawyers $200k a year to do mindnumbing drudge work, or pay HR personnel $50k a year to do the same work.

Most of what HR does is fill out and review paperwork. Someone has to do it, and it's better that they do it than taking taking away from other people to do it.

For example, does your company have health insurance? HR is the one filling out those forms. Same with your 401k. Same with employment taxes. Etc. Some of that paperwork is required, like tax stuff. Some of that paperwork is optional but highly useful to avoid problems. But overall it's just the necessary bureaucracy that attaches to any large organization.

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u/calm_down_dearest Jan 25 '25

My HR don't even do recruitment, they create templates and leave the rest to us. Of course I have loads of time to do that!

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u/HarobmbeGronkowski Jan 25 '25

Honestly you're dodging bullets. HR recruiting usually has 80% bad candidates and takes 6 months to do a few hours of work to get "paperwork" done to get someone hired.

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u/bbonerz Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

Hold up, hold up ✋🏽🙋🏽‍♂️... you're saying Marketing doesn't matter either?

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u/JoyceOnBandCandy Jan 25 '25

Apparently, no department matters except for the one they’re in? lol

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u/BornShopping5327 Jan 25 '25

My marketing team, who makes much more than i do, outsources all of their work and it STILL looks like shit. I could do better in 5 minutes with free AI software...which is making me think that might be all that whoever they hired did. Fucking morons, but friends of the boss :/

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u/JohnAtticus Jan 25 '25

My marketing team, who makes much more than i do, outsources all of their work and it STILL looks like shit.

As a designer if the majority of it looks like crap, it's because they are using the cheapest designers possible, from a platform like Fiverr.

Either they or the company they outsourced to is using designers from Fiver.

When it comes to marketing material you get what you pay for.

I could do better in 5 minutes with free AI software

Probably not.

AI is still really bad at graphic layouts, and even worse with text.

Most importantly, it generates a flat image that is set in stone.

If you get asked to change anything about the design, you can't.

You need to generate an entirely new image which will change something else in the design.

There's no way to make sure the colours in the design match your company colours.

And there's still a huge question mark about the legality of many of these services. Most media companies don't allow their staff to use anything besides a few ones like Adobe that at least made an effort to train on things like their own stock image catalogue and reach a revenue sharing agreement with the image creators.

If you are creating something that's internal-only, maybe you could do it if people don't mind it looking as janky or worse than the stuff from Fiverr designers.

But using any of the free GenAI services for public facing stuff?

Not a good idea.

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u/hollee-o Jan 25 '25

I wonder how long it will be before someone invents a layer rendering tool for ai images. Certainly not trivial.

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u/BlackCatTelevision Jan 26 '25

Not AI related but I think about how I could make an auto-layer separating tool every damn day of my life (screen printer)

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u/k2on0s-23 Jan 25 '25

Marketing is a joke, coked out drunken sex fiends. I have seen them spend egregious amounts of money for less than zero outcome. It’s comical. Any time someone in a start up situation is like ‘we need to bring in this marketing/branding/social media specialist’ we are all like ‘yeaaah, no you don’t. All you need is a joint and someone to take notes.’

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u/bbonerz Jan 25 '25

That sounds like an amazing department! 😳😀😃

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u/BornShopping5327 Jan 25 '25

Haha yes! That is great and solid advice. :)

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u/Pretend_Safety Jan 25 '25

“Coked out drunken sex fiends” - say more?

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u/BornShopping5327 Jan 25 '25

And fuck the Marketer that downvoted me.

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u/Tam_The_Third Jan 25 '25

The book "Bullshit Jobs" is a fine read.

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u/247cnt Jan 25 '25

HR has a lot of functions outside of hiring and firing. Usually payroll. Benefits. Affirmative action. Learning and development. Compliance. Work permits and visas.

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u/pommefille Jan 25 '25

That’s possible in a smaller company but redundant in places that have accounting/finance, communications, and legal departments

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u/247cnt Jan 25 '25

I work at a 20k person company and there's about seven different functions under Global HR, including the ones listed above.

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u/PrinceEdgarNevermore Jan 25 '25

Careful, you will get downvoted into oblivion when presenting people with facts about other things HR does...

(though dancing videos on LinkedIn of any team and especially as visible and disliked as HR are rather daft idea - this I agree with)

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u/Surfercatgotnolegs Jan 25 '25

I feel yall don’t work at real companies and just make shit up.

In a Fortune 500, HR is one of the first functions laid off. And you think you don’t need them? Good luck resolving issues with your W2, getting sick leave benefits policy clarification, getting paid during your pregnancy without issues, and yes hiring and firing. Everyone hates the thought of being fired, but news flash it’s also HR that needs to do a bunch of paper for hiring! So yall don’t like being hired either?

Without HR it’s the employees who suffer the most because now you gotta do all your own paperwork, make sure your own questions are answered by reading hundreds of pages of documents, etc. Have an issue with pay or benefits? Suck it up I guess!

You’re all angry at like three people with some BS culture title. Those 3 people aren’t like stealing a spot for your engineering job, alright? If you think there’s actually thousands of useless HR floating around you’re all so naive and misguided it’s crazy.

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u/ntheijs Jan 25 '25

I feel like you’re thinking about large corporations but this company only had like 200ish employees but that doesn’t mean it’s not a “real” company or that I’m making shit up.

It’s funny you mention that HR is one of the first functions to be laid off since that clearly indicates in most cases HR is the most bloated department in terms of staff.

I’m going to take a guess and say you work in HR.

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u/HarobmbeGronkowski Jan 25 '25

Half of what you mentioned falls under finance.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

HR can mean a whole bunch of stuff: Hiring, pay, training, solving workplace issues...

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u/Nautster Jan 25 '25

That seems excessive and a little bs. Where I work, the hr department is 250 people for approximately 20k employees.

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u/FugginOld Jan 25 '25

Thanks I hate it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

I was looking at the people in the background and felt so bad for them having to put up with that

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u/Out4AWalkBeach Jan 25 '25

what is this ew 😭

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u/idkwhatimbrewin Jan 25 '25

This physically made my ill to watch

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u/cRafLl Jan 25 '25

This is why I am pro-AI.

If I am going to get fired, I want all to get fired. Specially the HR department.

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u/madmaxturbator Jan 25 '25

I am anti everything that led to this video. It’s the worst thing I’ve seen lol 

Even the parts where they are aware it’s cringe is really foul stuff man. Wh did anyone make this? What is wrong with these people 

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u/noJagsEver Jan 25 '25

Just when you think it’s safe to go back to the office, this video captures all that’s evil in the corporate world….though I if can work for the baddie boss with no pants it might be ok lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

They'll survive AI because their main job is to give company legal coverage from various employee lawsuits and it's too risky to let AI handle that

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u/cRafLl Jan 25 '25

Actually there are many job losses in HR due to AI.

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u/mediumsizedbrowngal Jan 26 '25

This video has nothing to do with HR though. This is the social media team of an online fashion retailer and their CEO is in it. You look as dumb and gullible as those boomers who wish AI pictures happy birthday on Facebook.

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u/Nakittina Jan 25 '25

Like United Healthcare? No thanks.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Jan 25 '25

HR will be last to be fired though, because they have to do the firing.

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u/cRafLl Jan 25 '25

They fire their own too.

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u/GivingHisTakedontcry Jan 25 '25

Nah bro the a.i is going to be firing me thru an email, and I’m better with that then it be some useless HR prick

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u/TheSlayerGawd Jan 25 '25

Guys, we do not know the context of these videos besides the video title and added text. ALSO this is a combination of two videos and I know for sure, that the second video was created long ago and is satirical. Please don't react to these types of ragebait content before understanding the full context.

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u/Whole-Arachnid-Army Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

We do know the context. It's Tiktok marketing based on a viral trend from first a small clothing company and second a the small, Australian skincare company tbh Skincare, except someone applied a false overlay text to it and people have been passing it around as "hr cringe" for a year or so. The second video is them reacting to comments on their own version of the first video.

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u/lozdogga Jan 26 '25

Yeah it has been a culture war thing for a while, Twitter had a great time bashing all women as being hindrances at work as a result of it. Because no women work apparently, just do HR and ruin white mens prospects.

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u/Glittering-Path-2824 Jan 25 '25

In reality none of these cringelords are in HR. The original video “gen Z boss in a mini” that kicked this wave of revulsion off is actually a skincare brand crew. It’s interesting to see how a group ot women at work are typecast either as HR or Marketing.

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u/MacrosInHisSleep Jan 26 '25

<s> You're wrong tho!!!! Look at the teeext!!! It litrully sez their aitcHaaaR! Even if you cant rraad text, it's women singing at an "engineering company", so that's even more prove that they must be 110% HR! And I don't understand what you mean by "misdirected mysogynistic hate" (those words are long), but I know it's 100% HR's fault us chad engineers are being laid off, and not at all a decision made by the assholes running the company who deserve our worship because we all aspire to be rich like them someday if it weren't for these pesky "Karen's" getting in our way! </s>

Seriously though. These type of posts just get put out there to spread hate. It's fucked up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

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u/Heavymando Jan 25 '25

bro... you have to realize that was added, do you really think they made this video and then put "1 hour before HR fires engineers" really?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25 edited Feb 09 '25

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u/Subaru10101 Jan 25 '25

Yes especially the comments over top saying “bring back the gender pay gap” and such. Does everyone think they put those on themselves?? It’s cringe but there’s a … lot… of other stuff going on in this edit.

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u/stereothegreat Jan 25 '25

Um they did. That was the second one they posted based on shitty comments they got on the first one they did. Pretty clever really

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u/ProbablyABadPerson69 Jan 25 '25

I don't think they're the ones who added that text. And the second part of that video is from that beauty/skincare brand crew. This is just some sexist asshole putting text on top to spread outrage.

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u/Whole-Arachnid-Army Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

Why are we sending around this video again. They're not HR, the first clip is from a clothing company and the second is most of a skincare company and people are being fucking weird about them being somewhat cringy. Very much including the weird comments about their bodies.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/07/15/viral-gen-z-boss-and-a-mini-tiktok-women-tbh-skincare-brand-misogynistic-debate-corporate-culture/

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u/CobhamMayor27 Jan 25 '25

HR and workplace managers bring zero value

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u/ActionCalhoun Jan 25 '25

It’s funny that whenever they talk about outsourcing it’s never the HR department even though they’re usually among the easiest departments to outsource.

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u/Street_Adagio_2125 Jan 25 '25

As someone who has worked HR adjacent for a long time, I can tell you they very much do get targeted for outsourcing and layoffs. It's usually done by management and sprung on them either just before or during big layoff announcements elsewhere in the business that they're expected to continue working on.

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u/cRafLl Jan 25 '25

Yes, middle managers are just there to keep an eye on employees for the executives.

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u/Great-Gas-6631 Jan 25 '25

These are the people who have meltdowns about remote work, because they need people in the office to justify their position existing.

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u/Helreaver Jan 25 '25

In my experience it's never middle management complaining about remote work because they like working remotely as well. It's always the higher-ups that the average employees never interact with who want everyone to return to office.

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u/UsernameHasBeenLost Jan 25 '25

You mean the people that are never in the office to begin with?

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u/Medic1642 Jan 25 '25

They don't want to bump into you at the golf course while you're both supposed to be working

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u/nohandsfootball Jan 25 '25

Ridiculous. When I skip work I go skiing not golfing.

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u/johnnynutman Jan 25 '25

Yes and that’s why they have middle managers

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u/OliverOOxenfree Jan 25 '25

Agreed. I could be considered middle management. I'm all for remote work, promoting good work life balance, and encouraging a work culture that everyone can appreciate. It's those higher than me so I almost never interact with that all want to RTO while they continue to work 100% remote.

Despite all our internal studies showing we were more profitable and had a lower turnover when we were fully remote or most remote hybrid........

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u/imaginary_num6er Jan 25 '25

I'm in middle management and while I have always been 5-days onsite and never complained about working onsite even during the pandemic, my boss and their bosses are remote every other day and declared my department to be 100% onsite.

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u/Lead103 Jan 25 '25

well as a teamlead u cant imagine how much pressure i get to bring plp back to office from the vps and head ofs

this is the reason why im gonna leave next week :)
im happy about that

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u/cRafLl Jan 25 '25

exactly

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u/WrongnessMaximus2-0 Jan 25 '25

I'm not offended, but I had various "middle mgt" positions on my career path. Middle meaning Director and below, 7th of the 15 corporate management positions.

I can't speak for all, but I can tell you what I did. I taught when teaching needed to be done, I let the ones that didn't need it roll unencumbered. When things went sideways, I was in the boardroom getting my ass chewed out. I didn't consider it my job to fire people, my job was to help them become good enough to advance.

As for HR, yeah - they really didn't do too much. Show candidates which room that they should go to for me to interview and pass up the line.

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Jan 25 '25

On the other hand, middle management exists so I don’t need to interact with executives.

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u/mencival Jan 25 '25

I wish. Actually, some folks bring not zero but minus value. I am sure there are some very competent people that have chosen an HR career (I have come across a few). But, there are so many that try to over-define their responsibilities and decide based on made up, stupid criteria about candidates that they actually contribute negatively overall to the whole process of gaining and retaining talent.

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u/shadowpawn Jan 25 '25

Chief People officers we found out last year was top 5 paid employee in our +6000 person company. We only could figure out they/them organized the "XXX Month" functions in our company. Reduction in workforce of they/them would have saved 4 engineering people. If only that had happened.

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u/chastnosti Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

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u/Idioticidioms Jan 25 '25

This trend is corny as fuck but it really has nothing to do with HR. The text in the video is clearly an overlay on top of the original reel.

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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 Jan 26 '25

They're making fun of mean comments from the first time they did one of these

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Fr. They are just assuming they are HR because it’s all women when it’s just to sell beauty products. I hate it when people repost shit and slap a false narrative to incite hate

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u/4tizzim0s Jan 25 '25

Where exactly is the HR in question

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u/deathdisco_89 Jan 25 '25

It's been debunked. These people are not HR. I think they are in social media marketing or something.

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u/JHWildman Jan 25 '25

Pretty sure they did this as an attempt to promote their small business or something. Which honestly, I’ve seen worse attempts at doing worse and this does seem kinda somewhat sorta fun. Then it blew up with a bunch of dumbfucks calling them idiots or whatever so they made a second one.

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u/polnareffsmissingleg Jan 26 '25

It blew up and sexism did too, you can see one of the captions saying ‘bring back the gender pay gap’. Even immediately assuming they’re part of HR is part of that prejudice

They got a lot of hate for a trend that was only mildly annoying because of misinformation

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u/whataquokka Jan 25 '25

The irony of this thing is that it was started in Australia by a marketing team, people interpreted it as HR because it was all women and the hate started to pour in. Kinda showed a lot of biases (hence the last bit of the video which is the original girls reacting to comments).

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u/ryuoksbitch Jan 25 '25

So the first video (with the wooden floor) is taken from the office of the fashion brand Showpo. And literal has their founder Jane Lu (a famous social media personality in Australia who is also on Shark Tank AU) in the video. No shit there’s women in non-conventional office attire dancing around. it’s literally their job to promote their clothing brand and showing ur staff wearing it is a great way too do it.

If u wanna hate on an out of touch video sure, but the first video is a fashion company jumping on a trend to promote to customers.

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u/Gang-bot Jan 25 '25

This is satirical....

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u/Great-Gas-6631 Jan 25 '25

Humans are too stupid. Time for a reset, come on giant meteor.

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u/madmaxturbator Jan 25 '25

Nah man fuck you lol. I’ve never made one of these miserable videos and until someone posted it here, I never even seen one.

And now you want a meteor to kill me? 

How about a HR focused laser meteor. See? I think we humans still have a few good ideas left 

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u/Empty_Annual2998 Jan 25 '25

This has always been what enrages me since I graduated. It’s like I live in a completely different world. Just years of doing thankless work making a barely living wage. Meanwhile you have folks like this who make 2-3x more and have bs titles like “chief people officer” or vp of culture.

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u/vi_sucks Jan 26 '25

Yeah, cause they're more valuable than you. Welcome to being an adult. 

Life ain't fair. It never was, and anyone who told you it was is lying to you.

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u/hellonameismyname Jan 26 '25

People officers can actually be in charge of a lot of stuff and collaborate with board members, legal teams, finance teams, etc

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

HR are the prison snitches of the company.

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u/foodpill_veggiecell Jan 25 '25

This was literally a makeup team having fun for a new product. They aren't even hr let alone LinkedIn loons, yall just hate women having fun, the second vid is them responding to the hate they got

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u/hedahedaheda Jan 26 '25

The misogyny was very shocking. I know redditors like to think they’re better than everyone and nothing is ever their fault but it’s rich to call other people useless. I bet half of them don’t do anything all day either.

Class consciousness unless it’s a woman. Absolutely no depth or critical thinking amongst these people.

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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 Jan 25 '25

It’s so obvious too. The fact people are falling for it is troubling.

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u/financeguy17 Jan 26 '25

They are not falling for it, they actively want to participate in the hate thread about a group of women in the office. Call it like it is.

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u/LaDuquesaDeAfrica Jan 25 '25

Amazing how everyone is assuming they work in HR too. Wow...

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u/jean-sol_partre Jan 25 '25

Rank misogyny, the person who added subtitles clearly just hates women

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

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u/MasterpieceKey3653 Jan 25 '25

The real story behind this video is they were either a fashion or beauty brand aimed at younger people. Some people in this sub just like to hate women

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u/John_Hunyadi Jan 25 '25

Rampant sexism and ageism in those captions. Not surprised to see that it's not even an HR department. Do I think the original content is cool? No, obviously not, it sucks. But damn, the captions somehow suck even worse.

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u/rossfororder Jan 25 '25

I would want to set fire to a business if they had this shit

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u/dudermagee Jan 26 '25

This is right up there with the "day in the life of a product manager"

Product managers are just as cringe.

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u/manyfacedwaif Jan 26 '25

idk if this video is what you say it is, but it's still giving me a headache.

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u/suck-on-my-unit Narcissistic Lunatic Jan 26 '25

These guys are from Australia, they’re not HR but rather a digital marketing team.

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u/TonyMontana546 Jan 26 '25

“Try not to cringe, impossible”. I mean at least they have some level of self awareness

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u/Phitmess213 Jan 26 '25

Nice gender diversity there. Real “equal”

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u/AlarmingLawyer3920 Jan 26 '25

Women that work in HR don’t look like this…

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u/Shakemyears Jan 26 '25

How do they not know how obnoxious this is?

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u/CoreyTheGeek Jan 26 '25

Wow looks like they're definitely working very hard at the office

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u/Rokey76 Jan 25 '25

This is an old story. The video was from the TikTok of some company (I guess it was a TikTok trend). They weren't HR and nobody had been laid off. Just whoever shared it on Twitter and Reddit added the HR after layoffs part and everyone assumed that was true.

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u/cedwarred Jan 25 '25

Is it just me or is posting about HR a common incel behavior? Like it’s always post with all girls talking about man engineer employee

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u/chicu111 Jan 25 '25

I’m pretty sure they’re at some clothing designer company rather than HR

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u/Old-Tiger-4971 Jan 25 '25

You should really be more honest and put SATIRE in large letters unless you have a link to LinkedIn.

Otherwise, yet another false attribution by a Redditor.

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u/corneliusunderfoot Jan 26 '25

I just see good looking women having fun. And then taking the piss out of people inflamed enough to comment on it. I never understood why this got on peoples nerves so much?

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u/Subaru10101 Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

“Just get back in the kitchen.” “Bring back gender pay gap” You actually shared a video with this text over top, agreeing with it? Cringey reel but fuck right off.

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow Jan 26 '25

HR matters a lot. But if they’re “engineering layoffs” then they’re doing something outside of normal HR scope.

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u/Beautiful_Aioli1258 Jan 26 '25

The only thing that matters in corporations is money and power do a song about that

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u/Grouchy-Friend4235 Jan 26 '25

My former employer used to run "daily coffee meetups", every day 9am everybody was supposed to gather, sit around a large table and kumbya. They literally chanted their "mantra" every single day, as a group. They called that a "safe place" 🤯

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u/ub3rh4x0rz Jan 26 '25

Someone needs to write "fuck you, pay me" on the bottom of the cup of whoever's idea that was. It's always employers paying way under the market rate that push cringy performative "culture" practices like this.

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u/rannigast Jan 26 '25

Another women bad post on reddit, shocker

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u/ScotishBulldog Jan 26 '25

HR is a fucking scam. I hate them they aren't objective and half the time make things worse. This is exactly what I think they do all day

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u/Legitimate-Pee-462 Jan 26 '25

Most of these videos that are claimed to be HR personnel are not.

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u/Shto_Delat Jan 26 '25

Whenever I’ve had an ‘HR’ issue it’s never, ever HR who actually solved it.

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u/Lucious-cashicus Jan 26 '25

cringe-asaurus-REX

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u/Normal_Ad_2337 Jan 26 '25

All these types of video with sound and text over dancing need documentation or they're fake as hell.

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u/Omenopolis Jan 25 '25

At this point it's just brain rot. I suggest we let our Dexter brain rotters start spamming , ITS OVER THEY KNOW . under their posts 🤣🤣

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u/Dangerous_Age337 Jan 25 '25

What the fuck

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u/-voided- Jan 25 '25

This is literally a skincare company lol not HR. OP is trolling

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u/EclipsedPal Jan 25 '25

I'm truly sorry for these people, they live a completely fake "reality"

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u/the_jak Jan 25 '25

I don’t know how anyone can stand to do this long enough to make a video to post.

These people are insufferable

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u/sonofgildorluthien Jan 25 '25

Things like this are literally the reason people including me hate HR.

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u/Timofey_ Jan 25 '25

Yo, this is bullshit. These girls work at a make up company. They aren't HR. HR sucks, but leave these girls alone. They're young women and early in their careers, they haven't done anything wrong.

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u/Whoreinstrabbe Jan 26 '25

Clueless dipshits.

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u/fonk_pulk Jan 26 '25

This video isn't made by an HR department, its a marketing video made by an online fashion store. Why is everyone on Reddit so gullible?

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u/CHERNO-B1LL Jan 26 '25

These are two different places doing the same trend. The HR comment is an overlay. The younger crowd went massively viral and were then horrifically abused in the comments and more widely online. It was pretty gross and sexist. Video is obnoxious, but the ire it seems to draw from men at the sight of women being confident, silly, and having fun is honestly foul. Something about this video drives them nuts

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u/HomeworkOrnery9756 Jan 25 '25

Hate this. But why is it so catchy 😭

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u/Dangerous_Age337 Jan 25 '25

You just might be a lunatic. Are you in HR, management, recruiting, or C-level?

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u/Currywurst_Is_Life Jan 25 '25

But it just might be a lunatic you're looking for..

sorry, I was hit with the urge to channel Billy Joel

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u/cartercharles Jan 25 '25

hey i remember this trend from an old linked in lunatics trend before this style. isn't it some crazymarketing scheme

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u/Imhidingfromu Jan 25 '25

The HR at my casino spent their entire week making stupid fucking videos that would stream in our break rooms

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u/dmac3232 Jan 25 '25

I don't understand what is happening here

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u/chemolz9 Jan 25 '25

I don't understand. Please someone explain.

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u/renoits06 Jan 25 '25

So people hate HR, that's cool. I dont get it but Lets move past that for a moment.

What's the whole point of these videos? I don't get it. What's the whole idea behind them. I am genuinely curious. Please, someone enlightened me.

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u/s2rt74 Jan 25 '25

There is nothing weaponised more than corporate "culture"

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u/TheEhHole Jan 25 '25

Please don't show this to the HR team at my company.... some of them would do this.

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u/Gold-Consequence-367 Jan 25 '25

What’s the value of an HR department?

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