To wonder what 'HR' actually do??

[Glennin911]

Just that really. Always get the impression it's a made up department full of busybodies. What can they possibly be doing once payroll has been done and everyone has a contract?

[Jibberjabberjooo]

I'm NHS and every job I've worked in HR have been awful. Wrong contracts, not being paid (as they never told payroll about me), taking months to give me a start date, not telling me information until I phoned them to ask. I have no idea what they do.

[treaclesoda]

In almost 20 years in the workplace I have never worked in an organisation, private or public sector, that provided any sort of staff training beyond someone who has been there longer than you sitting beside you on your first couple of days and showing you what screens to use on the computer system. But all the bigger organisations have had large HR departments. I know they were doing something, and were very busy, but it can't have been arranging training.

[Oysterbabe]

We have lots of training at my place, at least one formal training session a month.

[Pastamancer]

DH has worked for the same company for about 13 years now. The only training he has been given in that time is an afternoon session on customer service. He works in IT and has nothing to do with customers and has been asking for IT training which would actually be useful but they won't do it.

[Quietwhenreading]

Pasta in that case he should seriously think about moving.

[Pastamancer]

He's been looking for ages but the jobs just aren't out there. He's a manager and pretty much everything advertised is more suited to those starting out and therefore the money is a lot less than he is on now. We can't afford the drop in money so he's stuck.