Years ago, I started a job at a division of a large company (that operated like a startup). I will always remember what the chief executive told me, “I never had an HR problem until I got an HR department.”
When HR gets involved you can bet your company is doomed. It seems like the septic tank floaters end up teaching or in HR. I have had one good HR person in the 25 years+ I have been at my company and she moved on to another company.
I remember when we got our first HR person at my campus. She called me and told me what I needed to do to run my department. I said thanks for your input and ignored her completely. One of my employees came too me a few weeks later and said that HR was wondering why you were not following their suggestions and I said you tell HR I——I run my department and unless it is a violation of company policy or the law I will decide how things are run. With that I was left alone and to this day HR stays away from me.
HR creates unnecessary problems for management and is at war with the employees, a totally useless department.