I'm amazed at the surprise/disgust that people have expressed about this. HR = Human Rats even tho that's probably unfair to the rodent population. Every modern company has these types of individuals in Personnel/HR.
All except FR that is. In Ryanair they just fire the people on the spot and that's that. We dont need you so bye bye! What part of "F**K OFF" do you not understand. Much more efficient, no big HR Department to pay - you're gone, end of story, sue me if you like. (and we'll fight you all the way to European Court if necessary)
Next step for EI - dump your HR department (a whole building called the Personnel building) and go the whole hog to the Ryanair way, you'll save even more money.
Now, if I set myself up as a consultant, I could get paid thousands (of state euros) for such pearls of wisdom.
Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat