{"id":1975,"date":"2012-10-24T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2012-12-01T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:50:22","slug":"absurdity-parental-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Absurdity (Parental Advisory)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love San Francisco.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great city to live in, with lots of food, plenty to do, and great places to ride a bike.\u00a0 It also happens to be quite the interesting place for all sorts of reasons.\u00a0 I could point to the Golden Gate Park, numerous museums, beautiful hills and neighborhoods \u2013 but I\u2019m not.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019m going to talk about naked people.\u00a0 You see, SF happens to be a place where it\u2019s legal to be naked, basically anywhere in the city.\u00a0 My neighborhood bus stop is affectionate known as the \u201cbuff stop\u201d and of course what would we do without the Barebucks (Starbucks) a couple blocks away.\u00a0 This might be one level of absurdity, but to each their own.\u00a0 The second level of absurdity is this:\u00a0 San Francisco actually felt the need last year to pass a law stating that the naked people could not sit on public surfaces without a towel between them and the thing they happen to be sitting on.\u00a0 When all of this happened, my first response was, \u201cpeople let their skin come in contact with random foreign objects in public city spaces?\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, I\u2019m the guy that washes his hands at least 20 times a day.\u00a0 The point being that you\u2019d think there are some things you just don\u2019t need to tell people.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t always hold true.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard of companies where the COE wants to approve every new hire that comes through the door.\u00a0 We in HR know that the CEO adds no value to this, and that after 2 weeks the CEO has stopped to even bother looking at whoever it is s\/he is approving.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard of companies where VP\u2019s need to approve every compensation increase, again knowing that there is very little value being added except during the major exceptions.\u00a0 Once again, I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s more absurd for a VP to approve an increase of even one penny, or for HR not to have been a bit more persuasive against it.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that all manner of obvious things happen in our organizations \u2013 but in this case, we\u2019re doing things that we obviously should not.\u00a0 And we shouldn\u2019t have to create policy to prevent this absurdity, but often the absurdity will happen if we don\u2019t.\u00a0 The problem is that our organizations seem to like creating waste \u2013 wasted time and effort.\u00a0 In the case of the CEO, it is also the diagnosis of a far more serious problem:\u00a0 s\/he does not trust HR\/TA to get the right candidates, nor does s\/he trust the manager to hire the right person at the right price.\u00a0 We in HR are sometimes put in no-win situations.\u00a0 Telling the CEO not to approve hires is both something we should not have to do (why is the CEO even thinking about it), but it also can put us in the light of not being serious about cost controls if we\u2019re not careful.\u00a0 Regardless of all that, these are conversations we need to have if we want to be true partners at the executive level.<\/p>\n

For the record, I don\u2019t hang out at Barebucks or the Buff Stop.<\/p>\n

Also, hoping you realize how long it took me to find an image for this post. \u00a0:-p<\/p>\n

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