HR
What the hell do they do all day, nobody seems to know, the departments always seem to be full of themselves and harp on about how important they are and are always bloated full of usless pricks who don't even seem to know what they do.

Plus thanks to HR the missus has been off work on and off for the last couple of years due to stress, mainly caused by HR being a bunch of lazy cnuts who don't know what they or anyone else do on a day to day basis.
(bluehamster, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:22, 2 replies)

Well, they do
have to deal with a lot of crap like co-ordinating holidays / maternity leave, handling complaints and disputes, assisting with payroll, processing job applicants, organising inductions etc. And they need a solid knowledge of employment law. That said, they are all cunts. My job requires me to steer clear of the lot of them. Their interests are purely internal (fnarr, fnarr); For outsiders they are a cul-de-sac.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 28 May 2010, 14:17, closed)

The thing I hate about HR
Is when they use recruitment consultants (which deserve a post of their own on here).

Especially if you work in IT... Trying to explain the technical expertise requirements to someone who doesn't understand them, who then mangles them up and repeats them to somebody else that doesn't understand them... e.g.

"We need a .net developer, with experience of SQLServer 2008, the Telerik AJAX framework, bugzilla, twikis and at least 3 years experience."

... 2 weeks later...

"Here's your first candidate, apparently he's a bit of a whizz on Microsoft Word..."
( HoratioFellatio Taking the the out of psychotherapist, Fri 28 May 2010, 18:03, closed)