Let's Get To Firin'! All Barrels Hot!

If any of you are contemplating a position in human resources, I'd like to outline certain key things to keep in mind.

If you get a job at a small company (i.e. approximately 50 employees), things work quick and smooth. The fact that the structure is so small allows for quick communication and even quicker action. If you want to hire someone, you basically need the funds and the okay from the hiring manager. Same if you want to fire someone, you essentially identify it, point, and click.

However....

If and when you get acquired by a larger company (i.e. approximately 200 employees), things tend to slow down. Usually hiring someone requires several different levels of authorization, and usually takes about a week to do so. Firing someone is essentially impossible in a timely manner because all the sudden 300 lawyers need to make sure you're not firing someone for being a minority, but rather for the fact that they do indeed suck. Then you need approval from supervisors that pretty much have nothing to do with said employee. Finally, after all of this has gone by and the targeted employee has already retired, then you can fire them.

I'm in the above situation, pre-acquisition, we could hire and fire with the click of the mouse. Now that we've apparently grown into a full scale bureaucracy, we can't do jack in a timely manner, which makes me look bad because I can't do anything without approval.

W-T-F#$k it's like being in the Army all over again.