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> Eventually an HR person came around and told me to remove the card because the top management was coming to visit soon. Among other things this made it easier to understand the role of HR in a large company.

What on earth?

[ptasci67]

Yeah I am with you here. Why would you not want management to know you have an educational punch card?

[MrBuddyCasino]

Maybe just to make the desks look clean? But yeah, HR... everyone's favourite department, it seems.

[iainmerrick]

HR's function at a large company is to defend the company against you.

[hoorayimhelping]

Oooooh and also, if you're not paying for the product, you -are- the product.

Leave these glib platitudes at Reddit.

[pjkundert]

Actually, it's a testable hypothesis. This is the inverse of what you believe, I presume?

It seems trivial to find a counter example to your claim...

It seems difficult to support even the weaker claim, that there exists an HR department at a large company that defends your interests against that company.

I wonder why you seem so convinced of your position?

[raldi]

Around that time, the same HR department decreed that nothing in anyone's cubicle could protrude higher than the inter-cubicle divider wall, about nine inches.

One employee had to take down a little American flag (this was two years after 9/11) and another, a trophy the company had given him.

[acqq]

Now I know why Catbert the HR is colored devil red.