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    DK> The company I work for is seeking a temp, and the temp is having to go   
    DK> through three interviews to ensure they fit the "company culture".  I   
    DK> think people that go into HR, or offer such services over sell the   
    DK> important of culture, because they don't have much else to offer.  They   
    DK> convince companies that it makes or breaks them, but that is not true.    
    DK> I have worked in companies with a bad culture, and it was due to bad   
    DK> managers, NOT who you hire.  The best place I worked for was the best   
    DK> simply because I got on well with the people I worked with, and we took   
    DK> it upon ourselves to make the workplace interesting.  No programs from   
    DK> HR needed.  No need for centrally dictated language guides or any of   
    DK> that rubbish.  I really don't think that these attempts by companies to   
    DK> shape a 'culture' have any real effect at all, and certainly, selecting   
    DK> people for 'cultural fit' is just discrimination for no reason.   
    DK>    
      
   Whenever I reflect on the change in college culture over the years, and how   
   it's translated into political culture/desired laws and social justice   
   initiatives .. I seem to recall it falling inline with the evolution of HR   
   departments within corporations.  My "Conspiracy theory" I like to throw out   
   at the dinner table whenever a relative won't shut up about politics is "The   
   cause is human resources."  Albeit I'm kidding .. "culture and diversity   
   training" are just fancy words for "Reduce liabity of fines, penalties, and   
   lawsuits."  In America, as I'm sure true anywhere, it's cheaper to settle a   
   false claim of wrongful termination (averaging $10,000 per settlement,) then   
   it is to go to trial.  There are quite a few opportunistic people out there   
   that have created a culture within the workforce that supresses us from being   
   human - from being ourselves - without fear of being fired and or wrongly   
   accused of having offended another.  Human Resources used to simply be   
   recruiting, payroll, and seperate department managers who dealt with employee   
   complaints.  Whatever year most companies began consolidating it into a   
   singular department, is the time since, I have not enjoyed working for   
   corporations.  My  "Conspiracy theory" is that it's also cheaper for   
   corporations to pay off politicians to pursue agendas that reduce liability   
   for said corporations.  Therefore the push for education and law to practice   
   supression of our rights to freedom of speech. Not to mention the confusion   
   corporations create -- what you can't say at work without being fired for,   
   you freely can outside of work -- is not nearly as definitive of a line as it   
   once was.  With social media these days, one who is freely expressing their   
   legal rights, can lose their job for what they posted on their off time, or   
   not aquire a job to begin with.  America is so divided left versus right,   
   most corporations, the media, and politicians, leaning left, pampering to a   
   generation of youth who are overly entitled, that if one does lean more right   
   (like I do,) said invidivuals are at a disadvantage in aquiring a job and or   
   within the work force.  I hope a day exists the government realizes this   
   invasive right to privacy, and discrimiation corporations are emposing, and   
   draws fine line relations restricting companies from snooping facebook   
   accounts.   
      
   I'm somewhat off topic, however my point I guess, is that I'm finding a lot   
   of people attempting to start their own businesses as a result of the   
   "culture" that these companies are so "proud of."   
      
   I love the word rubbish ... we don't use that often in the states!  So true,   
   so true ... I remember when HR started creating sexual harrasment videos.  It   
   was always some old white guy making ridiculous passes at a college aged   
   girl.  The actors and examples were ubsurd.  99% of those who sign up to work   
   for an organization do so with the positive intent to be a good employee, to   
   do be ethical, and to strive to do our best daily.  I don't know ANYONE who   
   goes into work every day striving to do a bad job, or use words to   
   intentionally offend someone, etc.. the 1% who do have made working for   
   corporations borderline hostile.  I can't imagine the verbage "rubbish"   
   guides being trained on and written into handbooks in 2020 with the evolution   
   of gender identification, pronoun usage, and sexuality identification.  Not   
   to mention this ridiculous personality profile people are taking and adding   
   theirs to profiles and or resumes.  Exactly how much does a company need to   
   know about my personal life prior to hiring me?     
      
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