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| Cerebus:
On a UK driving licence one gets endorsements for speeding, driving without due care and attention, and so on. Yes, they're both endorsements in the sense of "an annotation on a document" but the UK ones are generally annotating "naughty boy points" not additional privileges (those are covered by the list of permitted vehicle classes). There are more neutral endorsements on UK driving licences too, I have one stating that I'm only permitted to drive while wearing suitable vision correction (i.e. I wear glasses for shortsightedness). |
| CatalinaWOW:
I tend to have as much disdain for HR as anyone, but have to admit they have a purpose and a method that works to some degree. Everyone knows that most of the work gets done by a few of the most capable people (most in this thread would quickly elect themselves to that group - perhaps correctly). But everyone also knows that there aren't enough of that category to get everything done, and there are mundane jobs that don't require the superstars and quickly bore them to tears. So how do you quickly sort the rest of the herd to get a someone richer mix of spear carriers. That is what HR does and they aren't totally incompetent at it. Their biggest crime is that they really suck at finding the top group, often sending people you really want packing before you ever find out about them. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on December 15, 2020, 11:29:36 pm ---On a UK driving licence one gets endorsements for speeding, driving without due care and attention, and so on. Yes, they're both endorsements in the sense of "an annotation on a document" but the UK ones are generally annotating "naughty boy points" not additional privileges (those are covered by the list of permitted vehicle classes). There are more neutral endorsements on UK driving licences too, I have one stating that I'm only permitted to drive while wearing suitable vision correction (i.e. I wear glasses for shortsightedness). --- End quote --- Ah, yeah that's different. Some of our states have a system where you get points for certain types of citations, but they're called points. An endorsement here is specifically something that grants additional privileges. |
| fourfathom:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 16, 2020, 01:19:03 am ---I tend to have as much disdain for HR as anyone, but have to admit they have a purpose and a method that works to some degree. --- End quote --- Also, HR comes in handy when, in spite of your best efforts, you hire a completely psychotic and useless employee. HR can help make sure you dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s as you go through the firing process. Otherwise you may find yourself in a time-consuming and expensive legal mess. This happened once at my company, and there was no way in hell that we were going to let the creep keep his stock options. HR made sure we did it all correctly. |
| Moshly:
I found this guy's take on HR very interesting |
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