I seriously think most HR departments have so little to do, they spend most of their time creating issues so they can spend the rest of their time trying to solve them.
Consider this TrueTruth example from my very own personal RealLife experience...
One otherwise-normal day, I walked into the public restroom at my place of employment and saw a sign on the wall next to the touch-free paper towel dispensers.
Did I say "sign"? Please forgive me. It was an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper upon which someone with computer access had printed:
PLEASE DISPENSE
A PAPER TOWEL
FOR THE NEXT PERSON
My cubicle-mates and I pondered over that a bit. Well, to be a bit more accurate, we discussed, "What the farnsworth is THAT all about?"
Because of previous experience, the long-term employee in our group suggested that someone close to the top of the corporate ladder must have determined we were taking too much time resting in the restroom. Of course, that didn't help the note make any more sense to any of us.
Did the top-o-the-foodchain think it would save us time to have the person in front of us wave their hand in front of the dispenser instead of us doing it ourselves? That ranks right up there with - and I'm pretty sure I've said this before - trying to make a blanket longer by cutting off one end so you can sew it onto the other end.
And then we started applying the same logic to other workplace time-wasters:
- Please pour a cup of coffee for the next person
- Please take the next person's personal phone call for them
- Please leave the breakroom refrigerator door open for the next person
- Please eat the next person's lunch
Ooh! That last one? I believe that's what John Lennon called InstantKarma.
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