Typical. Immediately after reposting a tale, I thought of this.
I've been in my current job for about 16 months. in that time I've come to realise that our human resources department are anything but (human, that is). They seem to delight in taking the 'human' out of human resources, especially the head of HR - a bitter, jumped up individual with an inability to bend to different situations and exercise common sense when needed.

One of my colleagues became a father for the first time late 2006. Fairly standard procedures you would think - nope. Baby was born with Downs, which was understandably a bit of a shock for the two of them (being in their 20's and pretty low risk for such a thing to happen). This was complicated by the fact that their newborn daughter was having difficulty breathing and needed to be kept in hospital and on a ventilator. First child must be stressful enough, without this (I wouldn't know - never wanted kids, never will).

So he asked for some additional leave on top of his paternity allowance.

This was agreed by 'human' resources, on one condition.

That he bring in a copy of the birth certificate, as proof that the baby had been born...

Fucking unfeeling, inconsiderate bastards.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 24 Jan 2008, 12:30, 4 replies)

Shocking
I know what you mean about removing the Human bit. As if things were not hard enough at that time.
Our HR rep looks like a crack whore. they do say you get the face you deserve...
(Siouxfan I'm not staring at you, I am just short sighted, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 13:38, closed)

Could've been a lot worse
At least the birth certificate would have been close to hand, what with the baby just being born.

We've have people pull scams based round that here, and now have a similar procedure to stop them happenning.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 16:11, closed)

People have actually faked the birth of a child in order to get time off?
I'm speechless. What kind of emotional fuckwit does that?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 24 Jan 2008, 17:04, closed)

Davros' Grandad...
The kind of people who work alongside the twats mentioned in this QOTW, I should think.

I'd chew off a limb to get away from some of them.
(Sir Harrington Titsmith disgraced himself on, Tue 29 Jan 2008, 16:30, closed)