At several big companies I worked at HR was at the center of the second group. They had no concept of what the organization "did" as far as product output and so on. As far as they were concerned they were the organization.
At one company we had a couple round of layoffs, thus there were more demands on everyone's time. HR then would drag us into "mandatory not required" meetings where they would waste a week of our time teaching us about "stress management" from people who as far as we could tell spent much of their time in the breakroom.
One such HR person even went so far as to file a complaint, with HR, that the team that sat next to them in the office ... weren't very social / didn't attend social events put on by HR.
I never know what to do with these kind of people... I laboriously explained to a few what other people did, but I mostly just insulate myself from them so it isn't as frustrating.
People make fun of the term "justice involved individual" but this is exactly the same dynamic. You are at your safest when you are as far as humanly possible, physically and organizationally, from their orbit. I'm safe from HR not because I'm innocent (like that matters) but because none of them even know who I am.
At one company we had a couple round of layoffs, thus there were more demands on everyone's time. HR then would drag us into "mandatory not required" meetings where they would waste a week of our time teaching us about "stress management" from people who as far as we could tell spent much of their time in the breakroom.
One such HR person even went so far as to file a complaint, with HR, that the team that sat next to them in the office ... weren't very social / didn't attend social events put on by HR.
I never know what to do with these kind of people... I laboriously explained to a few what other people did, but I mostly just insulate myself from them so it isn't as frustrating.