My wife used to work in HR. After enough run ins with shitty VPs, she left for an HR adjacent information management job. She’s never been happier.

HR works for company, not the people. Even the VP of HR is usually a bitch to any VP or director who brings in money.

I don’t know how anyone would think hr is there to help the employee with anything more than understanding their benefit package and even then they’re oftentimes lackluster.