1. “I may or may not have backdated a few forms after my audit found them missing.” – Brometheus-Pound
2. “I refuse to enforce the dress code.” – moonwillow60606
3. “I keep gifts that other recruiting companies, Human Resource Outsourcing companies, and catering companies send over. And I don’t tell anyone about them. I received beautiful chocolate covered fortune cookies just today…they’re in my work bag for later consumption.” – 1kmileboots
4. “I was going through applicants for a job and accidentally rejected about 10 people (I had about 98 applicants for one job. It’s a part-time retail clerk position, so we’re talking low skill, low wage employment). I didn’t even bother to fix it. I just kinda went meh. Like the classic joke: I don’t want unlucky people working for me.” – n0remack
5. “At my last position as an HR Assistant, someone (that I went to high school with) called and inquired about the position I was currently in and the hiring process. I told the person over the phone that I would get back to them as soon as I had all the information collected. I never got back to said person. PS: I saw the same exact person about two days ago and they work less than a half mile from my new job.” – bieberboy209
6. “I “accidentally” took away someone’s HRIS (Human Resources Information System) admin access over a busy weekend because I may have been tired of all their urgent requests and laziness. If you randomly lose access, you know why. Don’t piss off the administrators.” – HRproMN
7. “I have hired girls over others in entry level positions strictly because they were pretty. In reality, anyone could have qualified, but I hired the pretty girls over the others.” – Bang_Bang_ShootEm_UP
8. “Fired a serious alcoholic that worked with us because he was a danger to himself and the rest of the crew. His wife and kids left him after that and I’m sure he probably drank himself to death by now. I don’t regret firing him, but I do regret that my actions probably sent him into a downward spiral.’ – DennisBroadway
9. “I have restricted access to the HRIS (Human Resource Information System) because of an untrusting and power hungry CFO. We have a system that queries the database for reporting. I pointed Power BI at it and realised it had no password protection. Now I know everything.” – Anonymous
10. “I made an employee come in at 6:30 for the morning rush hour only to tell her to leave after 10 minutes because they were a bit overstaffed. At least give her 2 hours for her troubles.” – jondonbovi
11. “I purposely did not complete an important project on time because the project manager was a prick outside of work. I hated every second of it because it put MY work behind, but it was worth it.” – Anonymous
12. “We have pretty low standards for hiring at my company — it’s a lot of part time, low-skill positions… Given those circumstances, I guess it’s inevitable that I’ve made some bad decisions. But when I hear what my co-workers have had to deal with because of these bad hires I just feel terrible…I was not trained very much on interviewing techniques when I started, just picked up stuff along the way.” – Anonymous
13. Life isn’t fair.
Admin am HR for a company that's been doing hiring interviews recently. And at some stage we just divide all the resumés into two piles. Then throw one pile in the trash. Whoever gets thrown has bad luck. And nobody wants to hire someone with bad luck.
— Weird Confessions Uganda (@UG_confesses) January 6, 2022
14. People looking for jobs, please take note.
If your resume is more than 2 pages, I’m not reading it. Seriously. Be concise and list experience relevant to the role! I don’t care that you worked at Arby’s 9 years ago! #truth #hr #hrtech #hrconfessional #resume #resumetips #Recruitment #jobhunting #business #interview
— HR Confessional (@HRConfessional) March 30, 2018
15. Now you know the reason behind those long lunch hours.
Forgot about the new hires yesterday. They watched the 10 minute orientation video for 3 hours. Lunch was great tho! #HRconfessions
— Your HR Department (@TheCompany_HR) April 23, 2016
16. Organisations have a no-violence policy for situations like these.
I spell coworkers names wrong in emails so they know I hate them. #hrproblems #HRConfessions
— Broba Fett AKA Фидел Кашфло (@TheDietCokeBtn) February 19, 2015
17. HRs are humans after all.
I almost always forget about your onboarding until thirty minutes before it starts. #hrconfessions
— TayRay (@tay_johnsonhr) June 28, 2021
Some of them absolutely make you lose your mind!