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Why HR Is My Most Favourite Department
If you hit the eject button, management or just quitting aren’t your only options.
Maybe, all this time I’ve spent deconstructing the seemingly never ending annoyances, continual time sinks, and exponentially increasing number of sanity crushing processes in the Grand Game of Software Engineering, I’ve been missing something pretty damn important that’s been hiding in plain sight all along.
As you well know, all departments have their myriad faults, that’s for sure, and some way more than others, but usually consisting of a combination of them being wholly inefficient, faultlessly inept, or just plain obstructive¹.
However, there’s one department that I’ve previously criticised for being the brutal enforcers of the organisation, the untouchables who taunt and pull on the strings of the puppets they make dance at performance reviews, and who rarely come into the sights of the boardroom law makers and are completely impervious to all of the usual nonsense us poor, suffering, software engineers have to endure from the project managers and lurking agile evangelists.
Yes indeed, fellow progressive engineers and accidental management readers (who misclicked thinking this was an attendance based PMP course in workplace something or other), it’s that bastion of employee rights, that defender of your rights to…
