“This field isn’t easy when we’re always the bad guys and never seen as the good guys.”source ↗

“I posted here last week about some really awful employee relations and systemic issues I was dealing with in my last 5 days of my old job.”source ↗

“Now that I’ve retired, I spend my time ruining people’s Saturdays by refereeing, instead of their whole lives. It’s a mental burden relieved.”source ↗

“I have been working in HR for 11 years. The last six years have been heavily employee relations focused and I have always found it overwhelming.”source ↗

“I was really hoping my vacation would help with my HR burnout but it's still going strong 😭 I have an under performing team member who did ok while I was gone, but the minor things still slipped.”source ↗

“I'm now just behind frustrated that I'm still having to deal with the small things.”source ↗

“Two years in, I would not imagine these things to STILL be happening.”source ↗

“at what point do you allow yourself, really truly allow yourself, to let it go”source ↗

“Don’t forget…We almost never get a Thank You, either.”source ↗

“I feel this. I went on anxiety medicine last year because it all just became too much.”source ↗

“My work bully gets praised and noticed a lot. Recently there was a bulletin board of shout outs and they got two. I felt weird.”source ↗

“It doesn't feel good when others praise someone who cornered you and made you feel inadequate especially when they were around to see it happen too.”source ↗

“Originally I was going to finish this year out and save as much money as I can to transition out of education. But I feel like I need to leave now.”source ↗

“Unfortunately, I’m having a few issues with one employee, and I’m struggling to figure out whether these are normal growing pains with a new employee or signs that this simply isn’t a good fit.”source ↗

“During the interview process, she told me that she was newly moving to the area, fresh out of school, and has two young children at home... She was looking for a part-time position that worked with her partial SAHM schedule.”source ↗

“Her first week comes, and she texts me asking, “Hey, can you see if my clients for Saturday will come on Sunday? Our parents are coming into town that day.””source ↗

“Then, about two weeks later, I was trying to book a client on the computer and discovered that she had marked herself off for another Saturday, as well as another entire weekend later in the year, without notifying me or asking whether those dates were available to take off.”source ↗

“So far, she has taken off 14 of the 47 days she was scheduled to work before the end of the year.”source ↗