I want to make this very very clear to everyone, especially young coders new to the corporate world. HR is not there to protect you. They are there to protect t

I want to make this very very clear to everyone, especially young coders new to the corporate world. HR is not there to protect you. They are there to protect the company. And in 99.9% of the cases they will always support the ones higher up in the corporate structure, managers, and especially senior VPs. Does that excuse all this? Certainly not, but I'm completely unsurprised that HR didn't do anything about this.