Just saw this article while browsing the news, and I do have to say:
It's the feel-good story of the day.
There is a God.
Good things really do happen.
A few years ago, HR was one of the many hats I was wearing at the company, along with most functions other than product/engineering. For a growing company, was just too much. I asked our CEO to consider hiring someone who had a dedicated background in those respective functions to take over. Which, to his credit, he did. Biggest single mistake I ever made, assuming that a dedicated, experienced HR lead (and the clown car team that ended up being hired) would solve any problems. Nope. Instead, the dysfunction, chaos. And gross overspending from this team that ensued haunted the company for years.
To be fair, quality HR people do exist. Many people mean well, and certainly don't intend to do harm to an organization. Ownership and responsibility are so key. I fear that we've trained our professional HR teams to do the exact opposite: reduce risk, censor points of potential liability, and bury each other in mandatory trainings and legalese. On paper, everything can appear legit, and still deal a death blow to the company. I now realize why so few people trust their HR orgs --- and by extension, their employers.
It's probably one of the key hard lessons about work life that I've had to learn. I'd say that's what makes reading this news headline so oddly cathartic.
