Ethics | 'HR fired for only caring about results'

In any company, HR are often seen as the mediators.

Part of their role is getting to the root cause of any office conflict and nipping it in the bud before it escalates, dealing with performance-related issues and disciplining employees for communicating with colleagues in a disrespectful manner. While these are common issues within HR’s remit, employees may be surprised to see HR failing to practice what they preach.

However, a LinkedIn post asked users whether an employee – particularly someone from HR – should be fired for calling a colleague ‘stupid’. It quickly went viral and attracted a lot of attention from interested HR practitioners.

To add context to the series of events, the LinkedIn user started off the post by saying: “We fired our HR for calling a member of our team ‘stupid’.