If you're related to senior management, you have a career for life. If you're related to senior management, you're allowed to be unprofessional, condescending, arrogant and bombastic. HR is a paper dept that holds no water. You can't fault them, because there's a lot of integrity there, however, when issues are brought up to VPs, it falls on deaf ears. The humiliation of employees (belittling and yelling on the floor), the unprofessionalism of management (displaying badges of fired employees like a trophy case), and the total blindness and disregard of senior management to allow, promote, and reward these actions are an HR nightmare.