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'm not sure this is affirmative action. This is people are getting stupider. I'm in tech as well and in a hiring position. I've been recruiting for 4 months and I'm going to have to compromise on our already low standards to get any one in. Three years ago my applicant pool would have been full of promising candidates from the experienced veteran to the new and hungry college grad. Now I'm lucky if I can find a high school grad that can correctly identify a computer.
Good perspective. I've also noticed the increasing stupidity of new hires in general.
People have been getting less skilled and less motivated for a couple generations now, but i think it's finally just crossing the threshold where new technology can't make up the difference and cover up the decline any more.
Some of these people getting hired act functionally retarded and have literally 0 skills. Like they can't even do double digit addition in their head or string together a complex sentence. It's fucking absurd.
My job also can't find any new hires. They're all scary (either addicts and criminals or just flat out idiots), and even when we hire them they either fuck up continually until we fire them or they just stop showing up to work.
We've been making simple color coded instruction pamphlets and leaving them by the computers so that these morons can figure out to enter "10" instead of "20" but they literally can't get it. Even with the instructions right there. Dozens of tries, weeks, and they literally just can't assimilate basic information or memorize simple numbers. They can barely spell two-syllable words. And these are all white people in a 98 percent white area.
It's actually absurd and our country can't go on like this.
Do you have drug tests? A high school girl was telling me she guessed about 80% of the people at her old high school (the richest public school around for miles) do drugs of some sort, and not just weed. Most of these students go off to college, but I bet they aren't quitting the drugs.
How much of this is hyperbole? Because I've still got mad impostor syndrome every time I go job hunting and I can't tell if recruiters are desperate or just don't realize I'm a bad fit for some of the roles they come to me with.
I can't tell either. I swim in a sea of incompetence, and my nightmares mostly consist of reaching the shore only to realize I belong there too.
The scary part is that most of the people two rungs below me on the ladder have certs that I don't, and I can't imagine how they got them with all the things they don't know.
Certs are bullshit, the stupidest people I know have a ton of certs. I'm guessing teacher hand holding and rote memorization are getting these people through, because they can't troubleshoot for shit.
I do not doubt it but I find it so strange, why would people not want to learn about computers?
Laziness. Can't we get a computer to do that for us?