"Fuckers" is too kind a word for these fuckers

Dan Lyons has a new book out, Lab Rats. I learned about it when I came across a review on The Guardian. From this review it seems that the book isn't much more than a continuation of the themes from Disrupted. What is worth calling out here is the following observation from the comment section: 

My brother is a very highly paid engineer. The company he works for, and has done for over 23 years, had a factory in Welwyn; he was the head of a department and when his company took over another company they put in place a new head of HR (used to be called personnel), who happened to be the mistress of the new head of operations appointed from the compnay [sic] taken over. 

This woman not only became extraordinarily powerful she started interfering with my brothers workers. He threatened to resign and was offered instead a role as international trouble shooter. A job he holds to this day. The factory was closed two years later. 

The point of this story is HR is now the department with most power in any major company and those who run it are generally responsible to nobody, not even chief executives. Yet any cursory acquaintance with any of the 'literature' associated with HR will show two things: It is full of the worst bullshit you can conceive of; its entire aim is to run complete control of everything that happens in the workplace. 

HR is the source of using terminology such as colleagues, or team members, or listening mode, or going forward, or any distortion of language you can conceive:

https://www.hrinz.org.nz/site/resources/knowledge_base/glossary_of_hr_terms.aspx 

https://www.hrinz.org.nz/site/resources/knowledge_base/glossary_of_hr_terms.aspx

https://www.hrinz.org.nz/site/resources/knowledge_base/glossary_of_hr_terms.aspx 

These fuckers are the reason nobody anywhere can approach any business, such as a supermarket, and ask if there are any jobs. Instead you have to go through a mind numbing process that will include such questions as: What do you contribute to your local community? Do you play any musical instruments? How many languages do you speak? To get a job involving the mentally taxing occupation of filling shelves, telling people where the goods are on which shelves and, horror of horrors, mastering scanning goods at a till. 

I know this because my son went through it. Waitrose rejected him, I expect because he had never been skiing.

Here's hoping this offends every HR sociopath on the planet. It's no less than they deserve.