Introducing Evil HR Lady
I have not accumulated a wealth of professional resources, but I know this one is a keeper. Evil HR Lady is the only professional blog I have read for hours at a time, and wished I was clearheaded enough to keep reading. She has one of those blogs that you are sure can explain the entire universe if you can just read everything that’s on there.
Evil HR Lady could be a boring blog written by a malcontent about how odious it is to make triplicate copies of everything. But it is not. It’s about what brings smiles and what brings frowns to the people who hire and fire–the HR people, but also the managers who work with the HR people to accomplish their objectives.
It’s like eavesdropping on the closed-door meetings that you normally hear about through rumor and speculation. All the identifying personal and corporate details are redacted, but you can still see how the process works. You can understand.
Take this autopsy of a botched firing. I can completely sympathize with the enquirer and yet, as the Evil HR Lady deconstructs, I can clearly see how things suddenly and unexpectedly turned out ugly.
I feel like this is the HR mentoring I have never received, and I’m trying to make up for lost time by archive-diving.