I’m remote and HR is a fucking nightmare. She overly involves herself into everything. If I ask for a raise or career growth opportunity it has to go through my manager first and then they have to ask her for approval(when I interviewed with her, the exact words out of her mouth were “I’ll be honest I have no idea what your role is or what you’d do” so you can see why it’s been frustrating having someone who no insight to my role have a say in my future) If I need technology for work, it goes through her and not IT (this one’s difficult because she’s tech illiterate and thinks every request is unnecessary). And she never fucking approves anything. I joined the job last year and asked for a keyboard and mouse and was told if I wanted that, then I needed to buy it myself…. Mind you this is a BIG company that brings in millions every quarter. That’s the strangest part to me. They’re fucking RICH but she operates as if it were a startup. She is constantly volunteering me for “social” events. The last one was a get together where the group would go around the office collecting employee feedback and presenting it to the office at a meeting. The “events” if you can call them that are things that seem like she as HR should be doing. When I decline (and I have everytime) she pushes back hard and turns it around as “well since you’re remote you’re really missing out on connecting with the rest of the office” Tons of people on my team have negative feelings about her. Not sure what’s the best thing to do? If anyone has any suggestions, I’d appreciate it!