June 16, 2023:

HR insists on telling employees we pay market salaries.
HR has a book which tells them so.

HR is an obsolete specialization lacking purpose or value or reason to exist.

HR is officious at best.
It's most often a bureaucratic hurdle.
There's nothing HR provides which wouldn't be better handled by a junior paralegal at the company firm.

HR exists to prevent us being sued.
There is no other positive reason for it to be.

No one who deliberately chooses a career in HR is to be trusted.
Certainly not respected.