First job out of faculty we weren’t given any bodily documentation like an worker handbook or medical health insurance data. We needed to ask the only HR particular person about what advantages we had or the way to entry our well being care. HR was all the time very accessible to do that. The entire set-up appeared innocent sufficient. I didn’t know any higher.
(This was a really small division-less than 75 people- of an enormous world pharmaceutical & biotech firm. This firm is a family identify.)
At some point, a half dozen HR execs from headquarters determined to go to us. We bought all dressed up for the event (keep in mind, we’re denims & t-shirt-wearing lab of us).
They gathered us right into a room. The visiting HR execs began in with praises of the corporate’s achievements over the yr. Then made a reference to a number of the advantages we had per the worker handbook.
We checked out them with puzzled faces.
“Folks, do you not learn your worker handbooks?”, they requested.
We shook our heads and stated, “No…We weren’t given worker handbooks.”
All the guests checked out our HR particular person. She defined that she by no means gave these out to us as a result of she knew we’d simply lose them. However she was more than pleased to reply any questions on worker insurance policies. All we needed to do was ask.
That didn’t go over effectively.
The assembly agenda then became a studying and dialogue of all the advantages outlined within the handbook (in some unspecified time in the future, the few copies of the worker handbook they introduced alongside have been handed out to of us. And somebody was dispatched to generate further copies). They defined how every profit works and the way to entry them.
A number of occasions a commotion occurred when somebody would say, “Oh wow, I didn’t know we had that profit!” adopted by everybody our HR particular person. She would sheepishly mumble one thing alongside the strains of “I figured you wouldn’t be all for that” or “That profit actually can’t be accommodated right here due to the specialised work we do.” She made a poor impression on our guests. I’m betting she heard about that privately after the assembly.
The particular person doing the studying then pulled out a number of of his enterprise playing cards and handed them to us. He instructed us to name him straight if anybody tried to disclaim any of the advantages listed within the worker handbook.
After they left, issues returned to regular. I do know that a number of folks requested to train a number of the advantages afforded them. The HR particular person tried to speak them out of it solely to be confronted with the enterprise card of the HR exec. She acquiesced.
