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An HR's purpose is to find a way to have the company give the least to employees while still complying with the law. They can be nice to you, and most will be because acting nice is part of their job, but if they find out the company will do 0.0001% better without you they will let you go immediately.
In today's society where 99.9% of the people need to fall in line to their company if they want to not die of hunger or homelessness, it takes a special kind of cruelty to mediate conflicts in favor of the company, undermine any attempt on the side of the employees to improve literally anything of significance, or make the decision to take away someone's income because they are not being 100% exploitable. Most people cannot do this. So if they become HR while having a heart, they won't last long in the job. This leaves only the most ruthless, unempathetic removed in the long run. All of which wear humane masks because it's their job to do so.
Since the only good HR is an HR that quits, AHRAB