Have you ever quit a job because of HR

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I’ve been hired full time at my job since May 1st (I was a contractor before) and my health benefits still aren’t set up correctly. And HR is very unresponsive and when I do get a response from them it’s usually just “just wait 2 weeks for it to get updated in the system” or “call this number and they’ll sort it out” which has never proven to be true. I’m just tired and frustrated, all I want to do is play wow but instead I have to exist as a person and deal with this stuff.

So like, have you guys ever left a job because of something like this?

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No, but considering the circumstances of today and how incredibly important health benefits are, I can 100% understand your frustration.

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When I was 19, yes. Worked like dogs loading trucks on a warehouse crew. Pulling motorless palettes of meat, soil and a lot of other very heavy things. Worked 32 hours because 40 was not happening. The company was deeply entrenched in unions and union dues and they were required so us PT guys had to pay them, too.

But then something interesting happened. The new guy came from another store and immediately grabbed 8 hours from me and 8 hours from another guy. When I questioned the manager he said his hands were tied. He didn’t have any say in it.

Needless to say I gave them a piece of my mind, including their dumpster fire union and made a promise to myself I’d never work for another unionized company ever again.

The guy taking my hours was basically half the worker. That’s what unions get you.

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I once left a job because a guy came into our store and took a :poop: right in the middle of the aisle. I noped out of there when asked to clean it up. Not even with a hazmat suit would I touch that.

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I worked for a place once and found a book that was pretty much a bunch of girls writing mean things about another lady they worked with

Took it to HR to report it then she told me that she had told them to write it

Like I get if they were writing stuff about bad work performance but it was stuff like “she’s annoying”

Found another job and quit two days later

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Had a manager that used to come into the store looking for things to complain about. He’d find things no sane person would ever consider yelling at someone about (sign in the bathroom on the mirror telling employees to was their hands didn’t get new tape. Those kinds of things) and would rip into me and absolutely tear me a new one.

He’d yell and cuss at me in front of coworkers, in front of customers, didn’t matter to him. A lady came in from the company to audit the store and she walked in right as he called me a useless waste of space. She chewed him out and gave me the head of HR’s number to call and file a complaint and told me to leave her name.

Nothing ever came of it. Asked the District Manager and he told me he covered the manager and that I shouldn’t have gone to HR and I should have gone to him first. I was out the next day. Waited for it to be my shift (worked thirds), left a note on the managers desk telling him I quit, in very colorful language, locked the store up and left out the back door.

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i haven’t but i’m also not currently working and going to school full time. that said, if you know you have a boss who cares, you should bring it up to them and say you are seriously considering quitting because of the lack of health benefits. it specifically requires someone that cares but they should be able to fix it within minutes.

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I think it is important to remember what HR is for - they aren’t there for the benefit of the employee, they are there for the benefit of the company.

HR typically sucks.

I haven’t quit any job specifically for issues with HR, but you can bet that they were a factor.

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Were they acting out the plot of Mean Girls?

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I was going to call it a burn book but I didn’t know how many people would get the reference

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Due to HR? No. I have left because of bad management that HR backed because they didn’t even pretend to care about us.

As a side note, I’d recommend against leaving unless you have another job lined up.

Also, what can work in my experience is to start working your way up the chain. If you aren’t getting helped by your HR rep, make sure you have proof that you tried going through them (eg. send an email to ask for help). If they’re not helping, go to their supervisor/manager. If that doesn’t work, go to their supervisor/manager, and so on. Eventually, someone will get mad (either because they don’t want to get bothered or because their subordinates aren’t doing their jobs) and things will go a lot faster.

If you can get a supervisor or manager to go to bat for you it’ll likely be a lot faster but it’s not necessary.

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Should hav

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If it wasn’t for the union with the railroad it would have been a nightmare of a job. Sounds like the union you were in was garbage though.

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Was a great Dilbert cartoon years ago. Had him saying:

You can’t spell Who Cares without an “H” and an “R”

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Gotta agree with, and repeat, this. Learned this lesson the hard way after struggling to find work for two months.

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Lazy HR that what that is ,and personally from what i experience there nothing you can do about it. Me i was let go because of using up my sick leave ,had an accident at work,shingles etc during that year all add up.

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I sort of did that before, I forwarded the email that explained all the issues I had to my direct manager and the head manager of the lab when I got no response from HR. I wouldn’t say either of them really care about me personally but it did get HR to respond.

At this point though I feel like I can throw more of a hissy fit because there has been money withheld from 2 paychecks and I have no evidence that it’s actually gone where it’s supposed to.

Also they had 4 people put in there 2 weeks notice last week on the same day (which was hilarious to me) so I think management and HR might be scared enough right now to pretend to care.

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Well fortunately I’m a spoiled brat who lives with my mom so monthly income isn’t as much of a worry as it could be.

But the reason I’m so upset about the benefits (other than it’s very unprofessional and disrespectful to me as a person) is because I have health issues that I’ve been waiting to deal with until this all got sorted out.

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No…that seems like a fairly petty reason to quit a job. Are people really unable to handle a few phone calls these days? If something isn’t handed to them on a silver platter its “disrespect” or “too hard”.

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The key is to not make it look like a hissy fit. If you start out full of fire and brimstone they’re going to ignore you out of spite. You’ve got to make it sound like you appreciate what they’ve done but it’s not working and you need more help.