I work in tech, mostly support and admin stuff and a bit of scripting. My team is seriously overworked and my team lead has been asking for a new hire for more then a year. We finally got a new guy, he is Mexican. That in itself is not important but I was spending time trying to explain to him what we are doing on this project and the guy does not even know how to ssh to a host. When I got hired I had to pass tests on networking, bash scripting and linux, the tests I took are not enough for what we do and should have covered a lot more but this guy knows less then a high school student that likes computers.
I'm so done with affirmative action bullshit. I have nothing against the guy and wish him all the best but this is demoralizing. We've been so freaking overworked for so long, fuck this crap.
It may be affirmative action, but it may also be the desperation of employers to hire literally anyone with a pulse.
I kind of doubt that but I'm not ruling it out. The position has a decent pay and I could find someone for it if I wanted. But yes the guy could be great if given a chance so who knows, my problem comes from the fact we really need help and being given someone who will take a long time before he can be of help, will be a drag on the team while we are drowning. On top of the fact that there is 0 chance he did anything decent on the technical tests.