A few years ago I was working as a government contractor. Our current contract was up for a new bid, and a large parent company won with the stipulation that most of the work had to be farmed out to smaller equal opportunity contractors.
My position fell to one of these small companies and we began negotiation for continued employment. I just wanted an even exchange for my current situation, since I liked my job. It took two weeks just to get my salary matched. The final straw was when they wouldn’t match my 2 weeks of vacation (they wanted to give 1 week).
The HR lady was exasperated with me and yelled, “If I don’t get it, you don’t get it.” I quit my post and stayed on with the company who lost the contract, since they even offered my a raise to stay with them. I really wanted to stay since I liked my job, but at the time that 1 week of vacation was important to me since I didn’t live near any family and wanted time to visit.
It was amazing how rude she was through the whole process...
In my experiences, the weakest link, by far in any organization has been HR.
They are staffed by maniacal women, fags or omega-level “males”. They are not your advocate; they are there to either try to screw you or make sure you get screwed - like you did.
And before someone else jumps in to defend HR, I’ll preemptively say: “Piss off, no one cares”. For every 1 HR drone that’s somewhat human, there are 10,000 that are soulless beasts.