An amusing anecdote

[nonethefewer]

Months ago, pre-CV, my bosses helped me phrase a thing about myself: that I'm good at finding edge cases, which makes me great at testing and security, and crap at work relations sometimes. (This is not doom; I freely own this.)

At some point pre-CV, we at work were supposed to sign a new version of the handbook. In it was a phrase like: "$company does not condone retaliation based on reports made in good faith."

Me: "...what if they're made in bad faith?"

So I asked our HR folk. I went through three different HR folk and ended up on a call with one of them because they had no idea what I was asking about.

In retrospect, I'm more concerned that there are at least three different HR folk who aren't used to autistic testers... 👀

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Definitely amusing!!!

[siderea]

I'm bummed the response wasn't, "Checked with Legal, and they say in that case you're good to go."

In fairness that "in good faith" qualifying clause may be there to justify firing people who make bad faith allegations against other employees to get them fired.

(One of the very first things I got roped into at $techjob was evaluating the technical merits of the claims of one employee against another, trying to get that employee fired, which I eventually figured out were bogus claims as part of a campaign of harassment meant to cover up his own wrong-doing.)

[nonethefewer]

Yeah, the response I recall getting was something like "if someone's doing that, we have larger problems".

[hitchhiker]

testing and security, but for hr/legal, totally ought to be a thing!