tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692956.post4262528667264962945..comments2023-10-30T08:17:55.757-05:00Comments on Pictures on Silence: HR Lays Dead and DyingDonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239910727443310811noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692956.post-33896904140256309072008-04-20T00:53:00.000-05:002008-04-20T00:53:00.000-05:00[Don]: Why is Human Resources, the primary functio...[Don]: <I>Why is Human Resources, the primary function responsible for hiring and retention, always the first to go?</I><BR/>__________________________________<BR/>I say it's because they see HR as a function to answer one question anymore: <I>Can we legally fire this person?</I> Yet they already have lawyers they can ask that question. <BR/><BR/>As for profits vs. people, that train left in the late 80s. I remember when Bill Clinton was campaigning in '92, he'd tell crowds that you could make a phone call or file corporate relocation papers electronically and by morning your job will have vanished to India, China, or elsewhere. Fast-forward 16 years and our USDollar is worth only 40 cents, ethanol is killing us, even though we subsidize farmers who produce it rather than food, oil is north of $115/barrel, gas is rocketing toward $4/gal. soon, and that whole climate thing ain't getting any better.<BR/><BR/>HR doesn't have the cache like a Bear Stearns to blatantly fail and yet have JPMorgan come back and say, "We'll buy Stearns' trash, but only if the taxpayers pay for it." Meanwhile, billionaires glibly flick their wrist at a bad economy, claiming, "there's always winners and losers in bad economies." Translation: Our money's in a Swiss bank. We don't "worry" about money.<BR/><BR/>As HR has gone, watch as this same phenomenon ripples through the economy. It's already slammed trucking, paper/timber, and airlines. Hell, the FAA hasn't inspected a plane in seven years. What makes you think they'll care about the human resource? (That last sentence made sense to me.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692956.post-55889688443395815102008-04-16T06:26:00.000-05:002008-04-16T06:26:00.000-05:00These company's all wonder whythey are in financia...These company's all wonder why<BR/>they are in financial trouble?<BR/>It's as plain as the nose on your<BR/>face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com