10 Reasons That HR Thinks Employees Are Totally Crazy

Here’s why HR Pros think employees are crazy:

1. Your Boss tells us about all of your weird anxieties.
2. Your co-workers, that hate you, tell us about all of your weird anxieties.
3. We know your medical history – mental and physical. Sorry, it’s part of the gig.
4. We find out every time you cry or lose it at work – every time. That’s almost part of the gig.
5. Your crazy-ass emails find their way to our inbox. Thank your “work” friends for that.
6. We spend too much time talking about you in succession planning meetings, uncovering all that is wrong with you.
7. You rate yourself as “Great” on your self-assessments, and we know you are barely “Average.”
8. We know more about your divorce than your divorce attorney.
9. Your stories about your kids haunt me at night.
10. We know everyone you’ve slept with in the office – or tried to sleep with, or want to sleep with.

A function of being in HR

This is just a function of the job – we see and hear the worst and the best of all of our employees.

Just like the school teacher who spends more time on a daily basis with your kids than you do as a parent, that teacher is probably going to know some things about them that you are unwilling to accept. HR Pros know some things about our employees – many of which they aren’t willing to accept – that’s human nature.

By Tim Sackett, MS, SPHR is Executive Vice President of HRU Technical Resources , a contingent staffing firm in Lansing, MI