re: Does anybody work for a company whose HR department is not completely useless?

Yeah, I don't think you actually know what HR's duties generally are.

this HR girl has set up (and rescheduled 4 times) a conference call to make sure I have everyone allocated correctly

I sent her a spreadsheet and asked if that's what she wanted to discuss. she said yes. why not just review my spreadsheet and say yea or nay?

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Yes sir! 31 years. AMA

It is a shame that some HR people and companies have given HR a bad reputation by fricking it up royally...putting the wrong people in the positions.

My son is a soph at LSU and asked if he should consider going into HR. I told him hell no.

The honest explanation is that all companies are required to complete an annual EEO data sheet to show the number of protected classes in supervisory positions, and public companies are required to meet a quota in that category.

It's human nature that people in upper management prefer to have like-minded folks at their table, so some fill the quota with a political/nepotism skirt in HR... outta sight, outta mind.

I'm a dying breed.

Hr serves to pad the payroll with mostly high paid females so you get some of your quota filled and you can mostly avoid them.

They are there to make simple task more complicated

My HR department is there to ensure what should be a 2 week hiring process takes 4 - 6 weeks.

Do you work for the government? I have found that the worst of the HR folks work for the government. Since you literally have to be arrested for a felony in order to be fired from a government job, the most useless employees gravitate towards HR where they don't actually do anything with either a. production or b. service to the public.