Oh you nailed it. Half the time these bozos can't help you with anything..,never call when they say they will, etc.

I used to call them "Inhuman Resources" hated those bastards. Worked over 50 years, can honestly say I never met or dealt with any reasonable person working in that department. Glad I"m retired. Feel sorry for folks who have to deal with those trolls.....

Come on, they do serve to expand your vocabulary.
Where else can you learn how to use nouns as verbs?

"Let's workshop the problem", not "fix the problem"
"We should action this", not "do this", etc

I've been hauled into HR twice in 35 years, both times I walked out with a termination date :)

Then there was the managers' meeting when HR was addressing us about procedures in different circumstances. One of them used the phrase "out placed ". I asked her what that was supposed to mean. She of course asked me what I thought it meant. My response was a series of words like "fired, axed, terminated, **** canned ". Yes. I had an attitude by that time.
Twenty years before, I recall her predecessor referring to union contract negotiations as "that dog and pony show ".That woman probably did more to destroy working relationships within the company than anyone else.
Best
Les

Yes. When your work is utter BS, buzzwords put creamcheese frosting on your schitzcake...but it's still schitzcake. HR has become the internal analog of marketing.

My favorite HR story. My boss and I are called in and I'm told I threatened to harm an employee. "What?!" Turns out someone not in my dept. was walking by as one of my team asked about something and I told them the info was confidential. "What's that mean." "That means I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." The passerby reported me.

My boss looks at the HR rep: "And you couldn't explain to that dumbass that it's just an expression? You had to call us down here and waste my time?"

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what a bounce of whiners...... how did you ever get hired......O yeah HR.......

Director of HR at Pizza Hut?

Life in the real world......