Subj : Re: Dad'ism
To   : Dennis Katsonis
From : Doug Cooper
Date : Fri Jun 05 2020 09:12:14

 DK> The company I work for is seeking a temp, and the temp is having to go
 DK> through three interviews to ensure they fit the "company culture".  I
 DK> think people that go into HR, or offer such services over sell the
 DK> important of culture, because they don't have much else to offer.  They
 DK> convince companies that it makes or breaks them, but that is not true. 
 DK> I have worked in companies with a bad culture, and it was due to bad
 DK> managers, NOT who you hire.  The best place I worked for was the best
 DK> simply because I got on well with the people I worked with, and we took
 DK> it upon ourselves to make the workplace interesting.  No programs from
 DK> HR needed.  No need for centrally dictated language guides or any of
 DK> that rubbish.  I really don't think that these attempts by companies to
 DK> shape a 'culture' have any real effect at all, and certainly, selecting
 DK> people for 'cultural fit' is just discrimination for no reason.
 DK> 

Whenever I reflect on the change in college culture over the years, and how
it's translated into political culture/desired laws and social justice
initiatives .. I seem to recall it falling inline with the evolution of HR
departments within corporations.  My "Conspiracy theory" I like to throw out
at the dinner table whenever a relative won't shut up about politics is "The
cause is human resources."  Albeit I'm kidding .. "culture and diversity
training" are just fancy words for "Reduce liabity of fines, penalties, and
lawsuits."  In America, as I'm sure true anywhere, it's cheaper to settle a
false claim of wrongful termination (averaging $10,000 per settlement,) then
it is to go to trial.  There are quite a few opportunistic people out there
that have created a culture within the workforce that supresses us from being
human - from being ourselves - without fear of being fired and or wrongly
accused of having offended another.  Human Resources used to simply be
recruiting, payroll, and seperate department managers who dealt with employee
complaints.  Whatever year most companies began consolidating it into a
singular department, is the time since, I have not enjoyed working for
corporations.  My  "Conspiracy theory" is that it's also cheaper for
corporations to pay off politicians to pursue agendas that reduce liability
for said corporations.  Therefore the push for education and law to practice
supression of our rights to freedom of speech. Not to mention the confusion
corporations create -- what you can't say at work without being fired for,
you freely can outside of work -- is not nearly as definitive of a line as it
once was.  With social media these days, one who is freely expressing their
legal rights, can lose their job for what they posted on their off time, or
not aquire a job to begin with.  America is so divided left versus right,
most corporations, the media, and politicians, leaning left, pampering to a
generation of youth who are overly entitled, that if one does lean more right
(like I do,) said invidivuals are at a disadvantage in aquiring a job and or
within the work force.  I hope a day exists the government realizes this
invasive right to privacy, and discrimiation corporations are emposing, and
draws fine line relations restricting companies from snooping facebook
accounts.

I'm somewhat off topic, however my point I guess, is that I'm finding a lot
of people attempting to start their own businesses as a result of the
"culture" that these companies are so "proud of."

I love the word rubbish ... we don't use that often in the states!  So true,
so true ... I remember when HR started creating sexual harrasment videos.  It
was always some old white guy making ridiculous passes at a college aged
girl.  The actors and examples were ubsurd.  99% of those who sign up to work
for an organization do so with the positive intent to be a good employee, to
do be ethical, and to strive to do our best daily.  I don't know ANYONE who
goes into work every day striving to do a bad job, or use words to
intentionally offend someone, etc.. the 1% who do have made working for
corporations borderline hostile.  I can't imagine the verbage "rubbish"
guides being trained on and written into handbooks in 2020 with the evolution
of gender identification, pronoun usage, and sexuality identification.  Not
to mention this ridiculous personality profile people are taking and adding
theirs to profiles and or resumes.  Exactly how much does a company need to
know about my personal life prior to hiring me?  

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