Employee gripes | HR reveal the most absurd complaints from staff

By its very nature, HR is the guardian of those in the office.

If mental health issues are affecting an employee, HR should always be the first port of call in the workplace; it’s drummed into workers – and rightly so – that all mediation, illness and major frustrations should be HR’s business. For the most part, this is exactly what the function is for, and so much emphasis is put on imploring employees to utilise the HR resources they have.

However, any HR professional will admit that on occasion, employees confuse non-issues with relevant work issues. This means that HR ends up fielding absurd complaints and requests from unprofessional or simply arrogant employees with little concept of what actually constitutes an HR issue.

In such times of exacerbation, it can be healthy to vent to others about some of the, frankly, ridiculous complaints that make it past the natural filter that rational employees use to gauge if their gripes need to be communicated – albeit anonymously via Reddit. Here are some of the most absurd requests HR professionals ever had to field.