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Hi .. I joined a 100 ee company in July as HR Director to establish and formalize an HR office which had previously been handled by anyone who had a spare minute! Since then, I have had to do two layo
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Changing HR role

posted at 2/21/2003 4:12 PM EST
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It makes me feel better to read these posts - so I know I am not alone. Brought into a 260-employee company where HR had been handled (or not) in the spare time of the facilities manager, trying to dig out of that hole and still go forward with all the things we need. Turnover rate at 40%, maverick managers running satellite offices in eight states, we're at 330 and growing six months later. I put in 12-hour days for the first four months and just hit the wall. It's so chaotic. I want to do strategic, Director-level duties - yet I am swamped under piles of paperwork. How do we stay organized, how do we find time to set up procedures and policies and keep track of everything when it never seems to slow down? Working weekends just to keep up with the daily stuff. CEO thinks he knows everything, and thinks HR is "overstaffed" with two people to handle - and the other person has full-time attention on benefits administration. I want to become the strategic partner. Lots of books out there about what we "should" be and what we "should" do - written by professors in their world of academia who probably wouldn't last a day in a real HR job. But getting from here to there just seems like an overwhelming task sometimes. And does the boss appreciate the long hours and all the work for one second? Say it with me: no way. It's hard sometimes to keep a positive attitude, but it helps to know I'm not the only one dealing with it.
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