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'Fine, do your job then': HR puts a stop to employee's office tradition of bringing in bagels from family-owned business due to ‘HR policy’

HR is infamous for its strange and often frustratingly rigid ways. Their job is to serve the company, which is fair, as that's what they're getting paid to do. On the other hand, they can overlook employee's complaints in the process, or enforce petty rules that nobody really cares about.

For instance, what's wrong with an employee giving their coworkers bagels? Apparently, this HR lady did not appreciate being 'one-upped', although it's hard to understand how exactly she felt inferior in the situation. Usually, HR doesn't appreciate being the 'snack people', and works hard to avoid being seen as such. But this lady liked it, I guess. Who knows…

The original poster (OP) told the story of their office Karen who worked in HR. Karen didn't appreciate OP's tradition of bringing bagels from their family's shop, and told them to stop it immediately, as it was 'HR's job to bring in snacks'. OP was perplexed, and rightfully so. What's wrong with bringing in bagels? Well, things quickly took a funny turn… Leading to some ironic events that Karen probably didn't anticipate.

Then check out this boss who refused to level one of his employee's salaries with the rest of his team… The difference was a whopping $20,000.

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Posted by Eleonora Bader
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