Part of the clusterfuckery of this clusterfuck is the age-old "I went to HR and they took the side of the company" phenomenon. These idealistic young Labour volunteers think of Labour as a social movement that's going to change the world. They don't think of it as a 103-yr-old company with assets that must be protected.
As a wise man once said,
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Originally Posted by Ab
Never. Ever ever. EVER. fall in to the trap of assuming that the HR department is on your side. HR is not on your side. HR is the company. Treat HR with the same politeness, professionalism, and paranoid mistrust that you would the cunt of a boss who's trying to fire you.
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These poor saps went to the Labour machine with complaints about an evidently-high-value resource assuming that the machine would have their interests as its top priority.