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Which is more useless at your workplace: IT or HR?

Which is worse?

  • Total voters
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So IT blocked our social media marketing coordinator from Facebook and Twitter overnight and sent her an email saying "We noticed you've been spending an unreasonable amount of time on those two sites and have earned restricted access therein." The first email back, she politely sent them that she was the social media coordinator and that she needed those sites for her everyday work, and that she would be spending all day on them, essentially. They requested a meeting with her supervisor for Monday of next week to talk about it. She's running around this morning saying "I'M THE SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR."
 
Makes sense. Facebook is blocked here at work, the company finally created a Facebook page and was trumpeting this as some grand achievement, promoting it among the employee base saying "(go home and) LOG ON AND LIKE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!!!!!!!!!!1!!!11``"

Then again, this is the same company who has since released some video game app (we're a financial services company... what?) that they're also so incredibly proud of, saying "GO DOWNLOAD THIS APP FROM THE APP STORE TODAY!!!!" except the download is literally 300 MB
 
We have been so inundated with demands to use social media as a work tool that the lines between personal and work use have disappeared. I have zero social media presence and refuse to use that shit for work or anything else. And plenty of co-workers remind me how smart I am: many of them have "friended" their bosses and boss' bosses and we have almost weekly instances of people seeing things that weren't intended for their management or co-workers to see.

Don't put your pen in the company ink.
 
smallbigtall said:
Makes sense. Facebook is blocked here at work, the company finally created a Facebook page and was trumpeting this as some grand achievement, promoting it among the employee base saying "(go home and) LOG ON AND LIKE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!!!!!!!!!!1!!!11``"

Then again, this is the same company who has since released some video game app (we're a financial services company... what?) that they're also so incredibly proud of, saying "GO DOWNLOAD THIS APP FROM THE APP STORE TODAY!!!!" except the download is literally 300 MB
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That app is probably the worst decision this fine company has ever made. Aside from hiring us.
 
right now it's HR. my supervisor wants to talk about a promotion for me but says she cannot until some "HR behind the scenes stuff is taken care of." she wouldn't elaborate, but said it would take a few weeks. I'm getting antsy here.
 
lbE08 said:
can anyone in an IT role give some insight as to just how much is done to look into employee's activity? just trying to figure out how screwed i am.
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I work in IT, and this is what I relay to people who ask. Yes, everything is monitored. However, if you are spending most of your day surfing the web/facebook/etc.... the first thing your supervisor is going to notice is that your work is not being done, and that is going to raise red flags. Get your work done and it really is a not an issue.
 
just figured out today that HR has mysteriously shorted me one day's pay and 2 weeks' worth of time off accrual for no apparent reason. gonna be fun sorting this out. Facepalm
 
For me it's IT, I know they are bogged down and all but their communication skills are horrible.
 
i only voted HR because "real estate" wasn't on the poll
 
Having a physical place to do business, like a store or a warehouse or an office, seems important.
 
well i certainly didn't need a real estate dept
 
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