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 live in South Africa. I hoped that the rest of the world would look at how badly affirmative action worked out in practice for everyone here, and that they would have avoided making the same mistake.
Instead, it seems the entire West has doubled down on hiring people who are not only incapable of doing the job, but who have no intent or desire of actually learning how to do to the job.
When I started working in 2004, yes, the number of older staff who were white and male was disproportionate compared to the demographics. However: a) they were competent, b) they got shit done, and c) the distribution of the younger staff was closer to the local population. When someone got hired or promoted, you just thought "Oh, they must be good at their job."
Fast forward to today: If a female "PoC" gets hired, the assumption is always that they only got the job because of "diversity", and HR will blatantly tell people that they won't even make the shortlist because they're forced to pick candidates based on skin colour and sex in order to meet government quotas.
Ironically, if a white person or a male gets a job, people will assume they must be damn good at their job if HR had to accept the decision to hire them instead of a diversity hire.
In closing, as ghostfox said, the only reason things haven't been run completely into the ground is because the competent people are busting their asses off working double time to cover for these people.
Making whites look even more skilled and sought after. Thanks commies