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, Reply)