Right after I graduated from college in January '99, I went for an interview at a local bank in St. Louis. The job market sucked at the time, so I was interviewing for a bank teller position. The interviewer was this 20-something woman...maybe slightly older than me at the time...a complete twit. Then I see her college diploma behind her--it's from the exact same school with the exact same degree in the exact same field as mine. The difference--mine said Magna Cum Laude, hers didn't.
Granted, I don't know her background or anything like that, so it's not really fair for me to say too much. But her interview skills sucked to high heaven...and that's a huge part of doing HR. In fact, the only HR folks I've met that seem to really know their stuff are older folks (30+). The younger folks (my age and younger) just don't seem to have it together (including that bitch at my last job). Hopefully, they will get better with time. At the same time, I hope I'm just stumbling across the stoopid ones, and that they're not all like that.