Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly?
I think cube00 is making a joke. :)
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#32Two important lessons:
1. Coworkers are coworkers and friends are friends, and never should the twain meet.
2. HR does not exist to protect you or provide you with any services. HR exists as a policy-enforcement branch of the company. Period.
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#3415 years ago, freshly employed, less than 25 years old, introverted and socially awkward, I had a work colleague as well to which I wrote a romantic poem (for her, more or less out of the blue). It wasn't received well. Not well at all. I had trouble understanding her dismissal and insisted on that she gave me signs of affection. HR was involved briefly, my story sounded so similar to what OP writes. But in my case,…
This is why you should party or at least socialize widely in college. To get all that weird socially awkward shit over with before you're in the workplace and it impacts yours or another's career.
:-) I agree 100%.
I missed that chance by isolating myself and spending every free minute in front of the computer.
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#35This is intentionally vague to the point of being dishonest. Take this quote: > They asked about my whereabouts that involved this co-worker, all of which happened outside the workplace. I asked why these events mattered, and they told me that an issue has been brought to their attention in such a way that is has entered the workplace, and thus is now a workplace matter. So something happened outside of the workplace…
Sure. He's vague, but you can piece together pretty easily it's a limerence issue.
He's already in a weak position. It's everyone - Google, HR, Co-workers, his unrequited lover and now pessimists HN commenters vs Him. And he lost his job.
So why don't we just point at laugh at him? Or just go all strict and "just world". He had it coming right?
This is a person undergoing emotional trauma, he needs supportive friends to be around.
OP, you're worth it.
edit: shadowbanned again!
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#36I've had to take action on behalf of an organization when a complaint was made about a volunteer bothering others.
While I felt I had a pretty good understanding of the events after talking with both parties, and even though the situation seemed to be a large misunderstanding (missed signals), I was compelled to take action and remove the volunteer without warning in order to maintain a safe environment for everyone.
The person with the complaint needs to see and trust that it is a safe place and that action is taken. If trust erodes in the organization, you'll end up losing a lot more than just the person you let go.
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#37The intentionally vague way of writing makes me feel uncomfortable and trustless. Yeah, it's OK to not disclose any details but if you're writing about the problem and post it in Hacker News, you want empathy and comprehension about your situation. The way you write, intentionally hiding the details - that can be really important! - makes this a bit awkward and a bit suspicious, imho.
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#38It's hard to form an opinion without knowing what is "this thing" the author has done, unless I missed the part where he describes it. If he acknowledged to a colleague of having killed someone, the context is pretty different from a minor violation of an internal policy.
From some of my experiences with corporate HR departments, it can be impossible to tell exactly what happened even when you are the one who is supposed to be in the wrong. This is another reminder that Human Resources is there to protect your company from you, not protect you from your company.
Yes. The clue is in the title of the department: "human resources". As an employee, you are just a resource to be managed for the good of the company, just like capital, equipment etc. It can be easy to overlook that as most large companies crank out corporate propaganda about the team/family, mission, building your career etc. All those messages are designed to minimize the corporate cost of managing the human resources by engendering compliant behaviour.
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#3933 points in 43 minutes and not on the frontpage.. would be nice to get a word from the mods why this post is taken off.
I went through over 300 of the top stories and couldn't find it. It was still in its expected position (106) in the "new" pages.
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#40So this guy does something that makes his co-worker so uncomfortable that they go to HR and ask them to tell him to stay away. He then finds the person walking home and confronts them about the complaint. A week later he texts them asking them to retract the complaint. And after that he continues trying to change things so he can talk to the accuser about the issue.
It is clear as day that the accuser doesn't want to talk with him and in every situation where it came up the accuser has politely tried to get out of it. This guy just wouldn't give up and had more than enough chances to just walk away.
He has deluded himself into thinking he was in the right.