stooge /stoo͞j/
noun
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The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
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One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
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A stool pigeon.
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Sometimes you can even see it through the telephone
Sorry, too busy. Why can’t my manager fill you in on my current projects?
Haha I tried that one, because I was legitimately too swamped and management got very upset.
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In my previous company, at about 9PM, about half the company got an invite for a 9AM meeting, and the other half for a 10AM meeting, we saw all the name in our invite of course. Let's say the evening was hard, to guess which group was staying and which group was fired! I was in the "stay" group, this repeated every quarter and after 3 or 4 quarters it was my turn to be in the fire group, the next quarter they closed the company and fired the remaining employees.
The HR lady was like the picture.
She looked like Anne Hathaway?😯
Brb, backing up my script folder and deleting anything I haven't already shared with the team
This sent a bad chill along my spine. PTSD.
That smile. That damned smile.
I think this is their mask.
Do they get special training on how to lie with a straight face?
It's a prerequisite to get the job in the first place.
I know a couple hr people personally, and they speak in a kind of coded manner at work. Some of them will legitimately try to help you out, but of course the nature of their profession means they can never be a true ally. Not for long, anyway.
I've been friends with HR people at a number of jobs. They generally party hard. I've also always had the understanding that if they have to walk me we'd be professional about it. I've never been let go.
Yeah this matches my experience. HR person is always the one to have a bottle of whisky squirreled away for a good time.
I've been let go twice. It's shitty, but I realise they have very little power in a situation like that.
This is why I have so far refused to be a people manager. I'm not going to be able to emotionally handle laying someone off.
Same, I couldn't take it. It's hard to be in that position without feeling like a traitor.
Actually both times I got laid off my managers took the day off to hide while HR did their wetwork, only reaching out later to gush about how bad they felt.
Kind of cowardly tbh, but I get it—that's why we aren't managers.
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I look at this smile and think "There is no HR in Ba Sing Se"
I got an invite for a meeting the next morning. I was like "they wouldn't be that stupid, right?". Well, they were. I had time to prepare something funny but I was disarmed by their stupidity.
I don't get it, why does she need these projects for?
I'm guessing this is about perceived performance issues, potential or realized. But I'm not sure at all. I've never dealt with something like this. Only a few places I've worked have even had a proper HR department.
When you get fired they need to re-assign your work to others so they want to know what you're working on.
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