Company Best Practice : HR is not allowed to mingle with the employees during break time

This inside tip almost made me fall from my chair – literally! WT hell were they thinking? Well, he might have a good reason to implement such moronic policy to his staff, but, was he checking its entirety, its overall impact (pageant or contest?)and long term results? Darn! It takes noob HR to figure out its long term effect should it be implemented – actually, t’was already implemented.

Anyway, more of its  “worst practices” are as follows;

• Sr. HR is not allowed to have lunch with the HR Assistant
• HR employees don’t deserve a big increase because HR IS NOT PROFIT GENERATING – my present boss will argue on this, and so am I!
• Executive Assistant to the CEO’s JD includes monitoring the surveillance camera for those HR who violated the above stated policy – she won’t be getting an increase if she keeps on doing that, but mind you the CEO thinks what she was doing was productive.
• Executive Assistant to the CEO is more powerful than the HR Director/Manager – she can even  recommend who to fire and when to fire and that includes termination w/o due process. Maybe that’s the reason why they’re having a hard time looking for competent, motivated and engaged HR.

Now, isn’t it HR pros business is people? What about your HR? Is their only function glued to recruitment and other non-strategic administrative function? I just couldn’t imagine why this local BPO survived knowing that these practices are off-tangent to what we believe and understand about HR pros role.

Additionally, I’m not also discounting the fact that this Company is doing something RIGHT because they’ve survived for a couple of years now, but, the thing is – reality of this Company, turn over from agents, to HR Director and Operations Manager have been very rampant for the past months.

So, do you think this Company is doing something good still? That I doubt…

And the reason why HR pros are not allowed to mingle/have lunch/laugh with their employees? Because they were thinking that these employees might not respect HR – this reminds me of my previous HR Manager who once informed me not to get “wild” in one of our Christmas Party because of the same reason. LOL!!!

Good luck to you…