HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances (ft.com)
- Reference: 0180827138
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/19/1544245/hr-teams-are-drowning-in-slop-grievances
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/afc335fb-8f32-458f-9b6f-431021774002
Sinead Casey, employment partner at Linklaters, calls such filings "confidently incompetent" -- superficially persuasive even to lawyers. The flood of bloated claims is compounding pressure on an already stretched tribunal system: Ministry of Justice figures show new employment cases rose 33% in the three months to September, even as concluded cases fell 10% year over year.
Investor Marc Andreessen, [2]quipping on X :
> Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Marginal cost of arguing is going to zero."
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/afc335fb-8f32-458f-9b6f-431021774002
[2] https://x.com/pmarca/status/2024156021925855626
As long as there is no meaningful penalty! (Score:2)
Businesses will continue to be buried in slop AI output. Turn in a fraudulent slop AI created grievance, find somewhere else to work!
Same thing is happening in the lettings world (Score:5, Interesting)
I rent out a house in England and the tenant had a (reasonable) complaint. She emailed 3000 words to the managing agent. The agent sent her a 2000 word reply. This bounced back and forth a bit with each sending long emails with bullet points and the like. My guess is that both of them were using ChatGPT both to compose their own emails and to summarise the replies they got.
In frustration, she phoned me to complain and got what she wanted in less than 60 seconds. In my opinion, we will see much more examples like this where AI is reducing efficiency and lowering productivity.
Simple and quick... (Score:4, Insightful)
Solution: dismiss with prejudice any complaint which includes such falsities.
Re: (Score:2)
> Solution: dismiss with prejudice any complaint which includes such falsities.
I suspect most are not necessarily false, just vague or opaque, using ambiguous language or hard-to-verify claims.
Going to end badly (Score:4, Interesting)
Presumably, any protections that exist for employees filing grievances do not protect those employees when they file provably false statements. I can imagine many HR teams, once they realize the gift they have been handed, will be reacting with glee as they receive a free pass to bin off what they likely already perceive as troublemakers instead of having to walk on eggshells when disciplining them.
This is good (Score:1)
What you describe is a positive outcome for everyone but troublemakers. Filing BS HR grievances to paralyze everyone's ability to get things done is a huge systemic harm.
A group that deserves slop! (Score:2, Insightful)
I have very little respect for corporate HR and in particular their ability to adequately handle employee grievances. So if they're getting drowned in AI Slop, I'm inclined to think "And That's A Good Thing."
Two main issues (Score:2)
There are two main issues leading to the fallout:
1. Far too many entitled slow flakes across industries, complaints are considered the gold standard of accountability, and it doesn't matter whether they're baseless or not.
I've had complaints filed against me for all kind of nonsense, but a short list:
- Using medical cannabis outside the office building, to spite HR having a copy of the prescription and associated medical documents.
- Refused the request of a Muslim coworker to pray at the Mosque, dur
More accurate title (Score:1)
Bullshit HR grievances are now written with help of AI.
Applicant's AI talking with recruiter's AI (Score:2)
Original post (not by me):
[1]https://www.linkedin.com/feed/... [linkedin.com]
Pasted text parts.
My team caught someone who sent an AI to interview in their place.
It sounds so crazy that I didn't believe it until I reviewed the transcripts:
Interviewer: "Can you tell us about yourself?"
Candidate: "Absolutely! I'm a passionate professional who thrives in dynamic environments."
Interviewer: "That's a really insightful answer."
Candidate: "Thank you! You're absolutely right."
Interviewer: "You're absolutely right too."
Candidate: "You
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7428119520923508738/
Should Not Be A Problem (Score:2)
This should not be a problem at all. As soon as these white collar jobs(lawyers and HR) are replaced their relacement AIs should be able to process and sort out the details in seconds.
IT WORKS!
confidently incompetent (Score:3)
Describes most HR teams! Seriously though it would be easy to say throw out anything generated by AI but in this case I can certainly see someone struggling to put into words what happened to them and why it's a problem. Perhaps they should aim for being concise though. Don't want to make HRs attention span work too hard now.
Re: (Score:2)
"Throw out anything generated by AI" - Does this apply to the HR people and their forms? That would level the playing field and eliminate a lot of the problems on both sides