Girl in work I fancy....

Did someone just drag you in from the the street and say ‘you’ll be grand in HR’ or are you actually a trained HR professional? If you are trained, did you fall off your bike and hit your head recently? This has to be trolling as I find it incredible that any trained HR professional would even remotely consider this as being in anyway appropriate.

He is HR 😂😂😂😂

He should be well aware of the policy.

The office will probably have a holloween event or else Christmas, wait until then.

The simple fact that you work together means you should not like her via the app. That comes across a bit creepy.

If you want to ask her out then do it face to face but if she is a new starter then at least give it some time before you stop being her point of contact.

I know he's HR but he's not the head of HR and sounds to me like he may only be in a junior position and still learning.

Thats just a polite way of saying that he doesn't know his own job.

There is a reason everybody finds it bizarre that somebody claiming to be a HR rep is asking this question.

Long story short, no you should never swipe right on a girl at your workplace. And hell no a HR rep should not be chasing a new girl that just joined the company. It is dumb behaviour both personally and professionally.

As you say, she wasn't allowed to be involved with him on a professional level, something that the OP does claim to be with this employee.

And while nobody knows everything and even senior management need advice sometimes, this is rather a fundamental thing for a HR rep to be asking about. Don't compromise the company is pretty much day one material in HR, inappropriate conduct between employees is one of the major reasons for having HR personnel in the first place. Its why few people believe this is genuine.

If they find out he is romantically chasing the new starters he is supposed to be responsible for they will remove him alright. From the company.

So your advice is for him to go and ask his boss if he can pursue the girl who just joined the company and who he was supposed to be responsible for?

Because any competent head of HR is going to be absolutely horrified that one of his/her staff even thinks for one minute that any of this is a good idea. And will definitely start to doubt that their staff member knows what his role is supposed to be.

The role of HR is to protect the company against risk. Here we have a HR rep who is opening the company up to risk. That is not likely to end well.