The HR woman gave a good first impression when I met her. Now I think she sucks. She’s had almost 4 years of experience in 4 places of employment…I still think my company likes to hire people who don’t have loads of experience so they don’t have to pay people a lot. (I guess I can’t really say that to her during my exit interview…or can I?)

Anyway, I find her annoying because she sends out the same company-wide email announcements usually within half an hour of someone else sending them out.

When I was contacted to write an article about my job at my current company, I asked her if it was something I could do, what things I wasn’t allowed to write about, etc. She told me she didn’t know and to ask my manager. Did I ask the wrong person? Isn’t she the one who is supposed to know best about company policies and procedures?

I also wonder why she was given the title of HR Manager when she’s the only HR person. I think she might manage the office manager, but we don’t have one right now.

Anyway, having to deal with her today for 15 minutes was extremely painful. She needed help with inserting a table of contents into our Employee Handbook. First, I gave her a template to use months ago, but she didn’t use a template at all. Second, she emailed me the table of contents a while back, and I replied telling her what to do, and she never got back to me. [Creating a table of contents in Word can be done automatically. You do not need to type out everything you want to put in your table of contents.]

She called me today and asked me to visit her in her office. I do have to admit that I was relieved it wasn’t an HR issue. She showed me the same friggin table of contents again and asked me what to do with it. I had to tell her again, only verbally this time. I hate having my time wasted. And she was a total newbie to Word, which made explaining things even more difficult. I got her started on the process, and she complained that it was going to take forever.

Sucks to be you! Could’ve saved loads of time if you knew how to use Word (or used the template I gave you that would have met your needs). I think our VP or Marketing is the only person in the company who had enough brains to ask me to create a template for him.