HR and Ethics serve no purpose beyond protecting the company and the company supervisors from employee lawsuits. Nothing more, nothing less. Beware HR and Ethics.
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You have to come to work with the knowledge that part of HR's responsibility/deliverables is to manage risk (risk to the company and, to some extent, you). Though you may spend your entire career as a productive, keep-your-nose-clean, non-whining, 8 for 8, type of employee, the minute your action(s) become perceived as a liability risk you become a risk to mitigated. Also, when your employment ends you are statistically in a group perceived as more risky than when you were employed just minutes before and, unfortunately, you get treated as such.
It completely sucks but that's where the last thirty years of lawsuit results have landed us...
They're neither human nor a resource.
HR and ethics will never find in favor of an employee from an ethics complaint. Even legal employees have been laid off after filing ethics complaints. The goal is to protect the company, not the employee
And when HR says you can talk to them in confidentiality...they don't really mean it.
Post is dead on. I agree.
Words of warning.
I think I've heard a supervisor utter the same words in a meeting.
You could always quit.