HR has been an obsession of mine lately. I've met some brilliant people in HR. I've seen some hideous examples of HR (and my friends and family and readers tell me many more). HR is a big area of interest of course, since a lot of people want to find some work, and HR is often the gateway.
Now I've met some great HR people. As I've noted before, I like to let them know how great they are as probably few people are. But I've also seen some pretty mediocre HR performance, and some that's just plain bad (seriously, getting a 'no thanks' letter six months after I started a new job?) The good HR people will take care of themselves, but the ones that aren't so good . . . well, we have to deal with them.