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 hosted a gauntlet of interviews recently. I have no interest in discriminating on the bases of race, gender, or national origin. We took candidates from a recruiter. 90% of the candidates were African or Indian. We pre-informed candidates that they would be tested on technical requirements, but many of them showed up and straight up refused the technical requirements. I couldn't understand most of the interviewees. We had one female candidate who dropped and f-bomb and claimed a couple forms of mental illness in the interview. It got to the point where I would just dread interviews depending on the name.
We ended up hiring 2 mediocre white guys and one black guy who was the star candidate.
I don't know that we had a policy to prefer affirmative action candidates, but I'm 90% sure that our recruiter did, because that's all they would send us.
Setting you up for an ADA claim I assume.
But when you say "we should hire based on qualifications", they'll call you racist. Because blacks don't have qualifiications.
The black guy in this case really was the best candidate. From his name, I assumed he was northern European. Either way, he did actually do the best. Of course, I'll never know how many candidates they didn't send us.
And that's after plowing through the other 30+ bad candidates.
I'm not sure what this recruiter was actually weeding out.
Oh, I got that the black guy was the best in this case. I was just remarking on the irony that wokies say that if you select based on merit, that's discrimination against blacks. This wasn't supposed to happen according to them!!!!!
Recruiter:
"Well, I've got the incompetent, the mentally ill one, the bitch, the furry, and the one who brought a gun into the office and pointed it at me."
"I'll send up the first 4, and leave the last one as a stand-by."