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.
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.