Behind the Scenes of Human Resources

All the personnel action notices crossed my desk. Not because they needed my approval, but because it was my task to input all actions taken for employees. These included the hiring of a new employee, pay changes, position changes, and terminations. Sometimes the actions were good, sometimes they were bad. And sometimes they were interesting or share-worthy even though they were confidential. HR is never really confidential, and if HR isn't sharing then Payroll is.

It was Thursday morning at about 9:06. After battling my way through L.A. traffic, I arrived at the office late. Nothing new and not that I cared by this time. I was salary, worked long hours at my #job, and sometimes worked the weekends so it all balanced out in the end.

I sat down at my desk and looked at the pile of "PAN's" overflowing my inbox. I had to get these entered before #payroll was due. One at a time, I begin keying them into the database. Feeling like Oprah, "you get a raise", and "you get a raise", over and over again for what seemed like hours, until I gasped at the next raise I was to input. My mouth gaped and my stomach began to ache. I could not be seeing this right. What the @!#? The CEO was receiving a #bonus of $30,000. An amount greater than some of our staff's annual salary! I couldn't believe my eyes.

It got worse. The CEO was making a formal request for an annual payment of $30,000 paid even after he left the company. This was at a non-profit, so I often tell people not to be fooled by "non-profit". Non-profits often have more #money than you think.

Now, the $30,000 bonus was approved and I had the privilege of inputting that, but you'll be glad to learn the request for a lifetime bonus of $30,000 every year, even after leaving the company was not approved. Why not? Well, I think it was just asking too much and while they may have really liked him, why would they pay him for the rest of his life. I know it happens, but this wasn't a huge corporation.

The takeaway here is that we should all be so ballsy to ask for huge payouts, bonuses, and lifetime rewards. Sometimes we're afraid to ask for the smallest of increases and that's a shame. We have to gain the #confidence and balls to ask for big money like a CEO. It's time to boss up people. The next time you need an increase in pay and know you deserve it, remember the CEO here who asked for $30,000 a year after he left the company. That part!

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