I could not agree more. I too was once somewhat naive individual thinking HR is there to, you know, make work a place where I don't have to fear of having to go

I could not agree more. I too was once somewhat naive individual thinking HR is there to, you know, make work a place where I don't have to fear of having to go to work each morning. I won't bore with details. The unit had a high turnover. Since a good chunk of those were people, who eventually just quit, it did not affect company's employment insurance. The boss was the worst boss I could wish on anyone. Eventually, being a young idiot, I went to HR to complain since it was getting really bad. It helped that a day before I went, another person quit in a rather explosive fashion. Anyway, moments after HR talk I was placed on an improvement plan of sorts. I won't give you the whole back and forth, but I survived 4 months before I found something better. As my wife would attest, I was coming back from work livid. But manager in question was friends with CEO and numbers look good. HR looks at this says: couple of burned out people is just cost of doing business. Bottom line is.. if you are going to HR, you better have a plan.