Thatâs the whole point Kevin. HR covers a wide range of functions including compensation and benefits, training & development, industrial relations, etc but a lot of HR people just become âgeneralistsâ i.e they do fuck all except come up with lots of pretty policy documents and loads of different reasons as to why they shouldnât get involved in any particular work. I did a HR degree many moons ago :oops: before taking a different path and the vast majority of my class were female who went on to specialize in marrying dickheads and going on maternity leave. The function itself is important but it seems to attract a load of wasters to it, like myself. It is absolutely driven into all HR students from day 1 that the most important thing to remember is to cover your own ass due to the sensitive nature of some of the issues they might have to deal with and the result is a load of fuckwits working in it who are afraid to do any real work in case they get themselves in trouble.
Alot of which could be covered by good general managers. They are half the fucking problem, managers not managing.