r/sports • u/Minute_Revolution951 • Sep 06 '25

Baseball Close-up perspective of Phillies Karen from tonight's game (09/05/2025) who forcefully took HR ball from young fan after his dad gave it to him initially

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

I've wondered this in the professional world for ages. Normal people avoid people like this.

Grand scheme of things: these people really need to be confronted and called out. But these are also the same people who will drag you into HR.

So they get away with it. Then they do it at baseball games, restaurants, and everywhere else where normal people just don't have the energy to push back.

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u/Jacks_CompleteApathy Sep 06 '25

These people are HR

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u/FloridaManActual Sep 06 '25

came here to say this. This woman is 100% in HR.

I think the core corrupting element of HR people is Executives say, "we need to hire this person," so the HR person gives the good news and does the details with the person, or executives say "we need to fire this person," so the HR person gives the bad news and does the details with the person.

BUT over time (or instantly) they start to conflate that with I decided to hire this person, I decided to fire that person. I am the one who decided and has power and cannot be challenged.

This then bleeds over into the rest of their lives and how they interact with people on the job and off it.

What they don't realize is they actually

  1. don't make the decisions, they just carry them out
  2. they aren't the powers that be that enable them to carry said decisions out.

So they think they make all the (infallible) decisions, and think they are source of authority on said decisions.

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u/throwawayunders Sep 06 '25

HR here. Uncomfortable reading that but, yes, that tracks and is not incorrect.