HR personel

Ok class, today we learn why HR personel and recruters suck ass.
 
First, no matter where you go to gain insite into the horrible world of interviews, you are told to research the company, ask questions, look into the persons eyes, answer honestly, sit up straight, wear clothes you never wear, basically don't be you. Because, you're a slob.
 
Second, they put on this fake air of friendliness,  "Hey, yeah Hello.  Sit down be comfortable. My name is...", and so forth all with a smile and a handshake. 
 
So lets take time to do some math, fake me meets fake you and if fake you likes fake me then normal me is hired for this stupid job.  interesting. 
 
But that's if you even get that far.  First comes the resume submittion process.  There's a dark art involved in all this, what it is and how you weild the power, I'm not quite sure yet.  As a result I could submit my resume or I could throw it in the trash with the same results.
 
This leads me to wonder, what do these people have to do all day?  What is it about their obviously pressing job that they can send a email that says "thanks for wasting my time", that is if it is truely that important.  Even if you send a follow up email, If they read it, how hard is it to click reply and say "yes, I've read it."?  They can't even give you that.  And if you call and get voice mail, again you can forget it. 
 
So is it the fact that these people have such little power over anything else that this is their moment to shine.  "They NEED us.  We have the POWER of CHOICE!" or is it something else?  But after all that I go through to get that stupid resume out (about 15 minutes each, IF the persons name is there, longer if its not, to write a cover letter) AT LEAST you can do is say "thanks I got it and I look over it".  At most they can say what they don't like.  They don't have to say everything that's wrong with it, one thing.  Because, I send out enough resumes to the black hole, that if I got one thing wrong with each one back, I'd have ten awesome resumes by now.