I am so frustrated right now.
I am the HR guy for my plant. As much as everyone on here likes to sh*t on HR, I try my best to actually care for the wellbeing of employees in my shop.
I had to do a round of labor reductions round Thanksgiving time. It was terrible, draining and resulted in really bad winter depression leading up to now. I did my best to forewarn as many employees as I could, as quietly as I could. Many of them were able to get jobs ahead of jobs ahead of their term dates.
I guess someone didn't appreciate my kindness because it got back to the big bosses. I have been a pariah for the best three weeks. I have been given way more work than I can possibly handle, and I have been getting snide comments about not “having the company's best interest” the whole way through.
I am just so..tired..right now. I came into HR to improve the employment experience. I genuinely want to make people enjoy coming to work every day. Most my career has been focused in the benefits-wellness and Total Rewards space. I am a huge advocate for WFH and have been fighting an uphill battle with senior leaders about it since mid 2020.
I know I am going to get people who hate HR people no matter what, but I am at a crossroads in my professional life right now.
Do I want to keep being ignored by leadership when I advocate for employee reform?
Do I want to keep being seen as the bad guy, when all I want to do is help people?
I guess I should just focus on the holidays for right now, no jobs are gonna come flying at me this late in the month.
I don't know what the point of this post was tbh, I just needed to vent and commiserate somewhere I guess.