Oh, baby, do you have THAT right! I have never worked for a firm in which the HR people were anything less that stupid, venal, craven and useless for anything except protecting their own phony-baloney jobs.
Could the rise of HR departments can be traced the glut of government regulation of employer/employee interaction? You need an entire department to merely keep track of it all.
Since you agree with me, Doc, why you must be OK! But we mustn't be cruel. HR may serve some purpose, after all. HR is often the place where corporations stash Affirmative Action Ani who could wreak havoc in the financially productive sectors of the operation.
Again, Barack Hussein Obama is the perfect HR candidate. This gay jackass would be hired at any American corporation with an HR Department in a heartbeat. You? I don't know.
HEY...I WAS in HR....when it was a legitimate, USEFUL part of the management team....I quit...because it began to feel like I was working for the Government, and I hated it. Babysitting at times, too. Once sat with the Oregon Intel FAB site Director at a 6am meeting of mfg groups....he turned to me and said...”why are we here? to babysit?” Or something like that. That was the beginning of my decline in HR...INTEL had a manual 3 inches thick of “policies”....I once fired someone on night shift (drugs)...without telling my boss till a.m.....I almost got fired on THAT one....but, I did the right thing...and survived.