Worst industry to be an HR Manager?

From your experience, what industry have you worked in where being an HR manager was the most frustrating?

Personally, the food and retail service industry has been the worst for me as employee relations issues tend to be more juvenile because employees tend to be younger, less educated, and lower paid. They can be replaced the next day by another minimum wage worker but you still have to expend all the effort of an investigation.

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Call center/customer service, AR/AP (hourly roles) and distribution. I would imagine food service and retail would be beasts. I say this because typically these roles require minimal previous experience/knowledge and can be easily trained. In my experience, majority of the roles are younger in their career and/or because they can easily get a job somewhere else, they just don't care. It's always drama, juvenile behavior and like you said a lot of employee relations. There's also temp/seasonal workers that float in and out. Usually the supervisors of these teams were promoted/grown up in that environment and sometimes are unable to best manage their team's behavior (to be fair, it's near impossible anyways).

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