The Byron station hemorrhaged senior talent when it was scheduled to cease operations and it shows in who is their management. People were promoted to positions that they are either too immature for or would never have otherwise have been placed in such positions had the company and site had any other choice.
10 hour days were demanded of the staff and lower members of management even when not necessary in order to appear useful and/or busy; this had a hugely demoralizing effect on the staff.
A lot of the E-4's and above want to be the smartest person in the room but lack the humility to recognize they're not experts in everything.
There was definitely a "good old boys" club there.
HR, in my opinion, is useless when investigating anything that might impact the company or site negatively. They are only there to protect management and the company.