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 got saddled with a diversity hire more than once. Basically it came down to either I do their job for them and they get credit, or they complain to my boss that I didn't "mentor" them well enough and I get dinged because I can't say "he is retarded" and keep my job.
I miss the good old days when you could speak honestly and tell someone straight to their face that they're being an idiot.
These days, someone can fuck up royally and put peoples lives at danger, but if you make a negative comment, they feign a nervous breakdown and you have to deal with HR.