Human Resources: How do we still call it 'human?'

Please explain to me how Human Resources operates in a 'human' way. I see the process ways, the protocol ways, the compliance ways, and the cover-your-ass ways. Where are the human ways?

Before we get going on Human Resources in this post, let me give you a little bit of contextual background on my deal. I had worked for eight-nine years in different jobs -- good managers and terrible ones, as most people experience -- before I decided to go to graduate school in 2012. I'm from New York City, but had lived in a few different places. My …