Monday, July 09, 2007

Exit interview

I just tried to give my exit interview.
I was explaining to the woman how arbitrarily moving journalists between branches had led to quite a few very good journalists leaving the company.
I suggested perhaps the best option would be to advertise vacancies to reporters and see if anyone wanted the gig, rather than annointing a reshuffle involving six people each time.
Now how would you expect a Human Resources professional to respond? Frankly, all I expected was for her to take notes, which will be filed and ignored.
But no, she told me to "get real" and said "this is the real world" and "I've been at News Limited for 15 years and I can tell you, this is how things are".
I was aghast. Offended. Insulted. All I did was suggest a problem which needed addressing in order to stop the company bleeding good staff. I even offered a solution.
Which just confirms to me that NOTHING is ever going to change at this company because that kind of attitude exists.
I am thoroughly disappointed.

3 comments:

Dave said...

Unsurprising yet thoroughly disheartening.

Lindsay said...

flbTypical.

Andrew said...

What a super-bitch!

You should've said, "Well this isn't News Limited, and we need to do things differently here"

But you were probably shocked and trying to be polite and gracious so you'd get a refrence out of them still.

Still, it's sad those people are retards.
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- Andrew