If he had valid cause to walk out, surely he could've gone to HR with his grievances against his boss? Since we're only getting one side of the story here, I have no way of knowing what parts of his story are true and what's been embellished. The story we're hearing is that a guy's boss was a jerk, but what if he himself was being an insufferable diva and his boss had no intention of renewing his contract for that reason?
For some reason I don't feel like Apple suffered a great loss here.
If he had valid cause to walk out, surely he could've gone to HR with his grievances against his boss?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! <sniff> Ah, you youngsters ... I needed a good laugh.
HR works for the company. Their goal is to keep the company out of legal hot water. Any other goal is secondary--solving employee problems doesn't even register.
Should he have stuck it out? Yeah, probably, but there are some bosses that are beyond unacceptable--and the boss was likely to shaft him on a review if he is that bad.
Yes, he should have talked to the contracting company before doing this. That way they would have known to steer their folks clear of that asshole boss--and they could have probably gotten his contract reassigned.
If that's your view of HR and what your company's HR department is like, I pity you.
HR is certainly working for the company, but the whole point is that they help mediate issues to avoid litigation. In order to do this, they need to provide as much assistance to employees as possible. In fact, it's in the company's best interest for their HR department to offer as much help as possible to employees.
If a HR department just brushed off complaints, it could be catastrophic for the company if that employee took legal action.
Legal difficulty includes avoiding cases of constructive dismissal.
Also, not sure how it works in the US but employers owe their employees a duty of care to protect them from harm and this includes bullying and undue stress.
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If he had valid cause to walk out, surely he could've gone to HR with his grievances against his boss? Since we're only getting one side of the story here, I have no way of knowing what parts of his story are true and what's been embellished. The story we're hearing is that a guy's boss was a jerk, but what if he himself was being an insufferable diva and his boss had no intention of renewing his contract for that reason?
For some reason I don't feel like Apple suffered a great loss here.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! <sniff> Ah, you youngsters ... I needed a good laugh.
HR works for the company. Their goal is to keep the company out of legal hot water. Any other goal is secondary--solving employee problems doesn't even register.
Should he have stuck it out? Yeah, probably, but there are some bosses that are beyond unacceptable--and the boss was likely to shaft him on a review if he is that bad.
Yes, he should have talked to the contracting company before doing this. That way they would have known to steer their folks clear of that asshole boss--and they could have probably gotten his contract reassigned.
If that's your view of HR and what your company's HR department is like, I pity you.
HR is certainly working for the company, but the whole point is that they help mediate issues to avoid litigation. In order to do this, they need to provide as much assistance to employees as possible. In fact, it's in the company's best interest for their HR department to offer as much help as possible to employees.
If a HR department just brushed off complaints, it could be catastrophic for the company if that employee took legal action.
Your view of HR is extremely narrow.
Nope it is extremely factual. HRs job is to protect the company from stupid lawsuits and labor law violations. HR is not an employee advocate.
Legal difficulty includes avoiding cases of constructive dismissal.
Also, not sure how it works in the US but employers owe their employees a duty of care to protect them from harm and this includes bullying and undue stress.
A lot of people think the role of HR is to help the company defend itself from lawsuits. Wrong. Defending lawsuits is general counsel's job.
HR's job is to prevent lawsuits. That means dealing with employee problems-- the earlier the better.
One way they deal with problems is to fire people or terminate contracts. But since this guy was willing to walk out anyway, he had nothing to lose.
And HR is going to give a contract (via agency) employee the time of day why?
Because that's pretty much their job.
Even if his paycheck is through the agency, the agency contracts him out to Apple and he's just sitting there at their desk?
He's describing a harassment problem with his boss, an Apple employee, pretty sure Apple HR is the point of contact for this scenario.
Let's suppose he was being sexually harassed by his boss--do you think he'd go to the agency to resolve this?
Right, that is complete fantasy. Everybody involved held a better hand than this guy, and he made the right decision - choose a different game.