Or when the warehouse started talking about organizing a labour union, and Jan came and said if corporate got a whiff about it, they’d all be laid off and their jobs outsourced.

Oh the Office, how wise were you.

Oh Regina King was fantastic in that role! I guess she’s so busy with other projects it would be hard to get her back, but watching Ms. Davis (?) interact with Sheldon Cooper was some of the funniest stuff written for that show.

Toby has some episodes where he does good HR. Remember when Michael locked everyone in an office? Toby was the one to talk to Michael, tell them to let people out, and that people were only joking when they said work is worse than prison.

Of course, in a different episode when someone said, “Toby! Michael is being inappropriate, stop him!” “Angela, I’m HR. I can’t do anything about anything.” I laughed and laughed and laughed.

I wish I could come up with more examples… Oh on the Practice, there were a few episodes on a case as they tried to terminate Alan (an associate). Combining lawyers and HR.

OH, and the Good Wife has a lot of episodes about HR struggles as they hire new people, associates leave, juniors try to take files, form start-ups, merge and split partnerships. Good times.