FORUM AREA COMING SOON

We know what you are thinking as you land here. Another crank bleating on about something he knows nothing about.

Well not really. The UK is currently being taken for a ride by the dysfunctional practices of HR. Gone are the days of the humble, yet effective personnel officer, who was not only normal, but who knew the company, its recruitment needs and how to attend to those needs. Now it’s all-American catch-phrases, psychometric testing that does nothing except prove how good your memory is, charts and graphs and all manner of useless rubbish which no one has the guts to stand up and say “it’s all absolute nonsense”. The term “HR Director” and word “useless” have sadly become synonymous.

Now, to get a job, one has the barrier of these useless HR people, full of their own self-importance, yes, they’re University-educated, but totally business and even life-clueless. And instead of looking for the staff they need, companies are now relying on the job equivalent of no-win, no-fee ambulance chasers - the recruitment consultant - out for their commission and not in any way serving the needs of recruitment at all.

Why use an agency if you have a staffed HR department? Surely that’s what they are there for, to recruit and look after people!

In fact, HR is seen as so vital that some organisations - for example the BBC - are out-sourcing it to other companies, at vast expense to both bank account and efficiency, only to find they have to bring more people in to run the result! Government departments, instead of employing the people they need, are paying agencies vast sums to employ contractors - the commission paid in a year for one person is often the equivalent of a decent working wage - AND MORE CRIMINALLY, IT’S YOUR’S, THE TAX-PAYERS’ MONEY!

This site is all about exposing the shoddy and fake recruitment practices, disguised as HR, that abound in the UK today, in an attempt to make people realise that, like expensive designer goods made for a few dollars in Vietnamese sweatshops, we are all being well and truly conned by this out-of-control thing called HR!

PLEASE SEND IN YOUR EXAMPLES OF EVERYTHING BAD ABOUT HR. The only condition is that what you send must be verifiable - your name, address, and phone number MUST be included (although any private details, while they may be used for verification purposes, will not be used for marketing purposes, neither will they be sold, lent or given to any third party, and your name will not be used on this website unless you expressly ask us to so do - we totally respect your privacy). However, if something you send is used on this website, and someone takes legal exception to it, on your own head be it.

We assume no responsibility for material used here unless authored by ourselves.

Please click here to get an idea of the practices we are trying to expose.

I don’t want this site to seem to be just an HR-knocking shop (although I suppose it is really).

I’m just a prospective job applicant, fed up with the lies and deceit that have been fed by to me over the years by people who seem to be away with the fairies in their own little make-believe world of HR.

I just want to make people aware of what we really have known all along - we are being well and truly conned, and if I can get some senior somewhere to stand up and admit it, then this will have all been worth while.

As I say to everyone, Richard Branson, Alan Sugar, the Mittals, the Rausings, Rupert Murdoch, to mention but a few, didn’t found their vast business empires on HR nonsense, with psychometric tests and graduates throwing coloured pieces of paper on the floor to encourage “colleague-bonding”.