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.
Once you hire somebody due to Affirmative action then the cancer begins -
A - he knows he was an affirmative action hire
B - Everybody else knows he was an affirmative action hire
C - He has nothing to do except “perfect” his grievances against your company
This is why Boeing has 200 Diversity Councils but can’t make a safe new plane any more.
So far B is a fact, no one has any illusion about this being anything else then an affirmative action hire. But he may end up being fine, he does not seem the type to shove identity politics, just a random dude that somehow was hired in a field that he knows little to nothing about do to being a visible minority. Time will tell if he catches up, hopefully I will find a new job by then.