HR, THE CORPORATE HOUSE WIFE!

In the vast kingdom of corporate, there is always a myth that, HR professionals are the odd one out. While rest of the employees break their heads and work for targets, HRs conducts fun Fridays! How atrocious isn’t it?

Let me tell you, this is how we are projected, but we are more than what you are thinking. Let me take you through the life of HRs and enlighten your meme-thoughts with reality.

In a family, a house wife is the unsung hero. she wakes up thinking about her children, prepares their lunch and breakfast, neatly packed in Tupperware boxes, dresses them up, send them to school and her work doesn’t stop there. Next, she will have to make her “grown up child” ready to the office. Which even includes finding their ID cards and keys and keeping them before their eyesight, so that they don’t miss it out. She does grocery shopping, cleans the house, do some preparations for the dinner. And by evening, after a long tiring day, she sits back and switches on TV. So, that is when everyone comes home back and notices her. Her son says, “amma, you are free only right? Help me in this homework”. She does. Her daughter demands “amma, you are free right? Why don’t you try this new dish you saw on TV the other day?”. She does that too. Finally, when a guest arrives, her husband introduces her as, “she is my wife, she does nothing, she stays home”.

So, this is what exactly happens in the everyday functioning of HR. We hunt you among 100s, welcome you into the firm, makes all arrangements for you to spend the rest of your time here, and our work goes on in doing panchayaths for cat fights. At the end of the day, you mock at us saying, “HRs sleeps at cabin”?

So, let’s see the similarities between HR and the house wives.

“HR’s work is the easiest and stress-free” Vs “Mom, you just do cooking and cleaning the house, big deal”

Oh yeah? Have you done recruitment before? You know how it feels to pool in 1000 candidates a month? We schedule for 1000, 600 turns up, 200 gets through the interview, and only 100 takes up the offer. Will you still find motivation in such job? Well, we do. Try making proper round rotis, before you comment about them both.

“Your appraisals are not in our hands” Vs “Ask your dad for permission”

Many people just don’t get this. Yes, we are there for employees, but performance appraisal is decided by your own department heads and not us. Just like how, even though your mom is going to arrange everything for your trips, you can go only if your dad approves.

 “Tell me about yourself” Vs “I’m gonna throw your mobile away”

There are some set of dialogues that is repeated everyday by our moms. It is told so many times that, we start mocking it and never realize the meaning till the end. We end up saying “maa! Please tell me something else that I haven’t heard before”. The same things happen with HR too. But the irony is, even if we change our usual pattern of questions, we are still commented for giving them a tough time in the interview.

“HR Jokes, hahaha funny!” Vs “Jokes about wives, hahaha funny *laughs silently, checks around*”

The FB trolls, forward messages, Posters, films, ads and even in stand-up comedy, next to house wife jokes, HRs jokes are the most trending one. I wonder how a decade old trolls are still roaming around and shared by people! Maybe you should try sending those “send this message to 10 people or you will get bad luck” forwards again.

These are only few examples on how are we misunderstood. HRs in factories play such a crucial role, and we have cases which costed their life too. HRs in IT and service industries takes up complicated work, by matching human emotions with numbers and data. If you still not convinced and comments saying “HRs are not so important”, then remember only one thing,

No business man is a fool to pay so much to the human resources, if there is no, at least 10 times the return.

I rest my case there.

Source: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/hr-corporate-house-wife-rajalakshmi-subramanian?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like&trk=hp-feed-article-title-share

Rajalakshmi Subramanian nicely expressed HR work.