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.
Honestly, it's kind of funny in my case. The person I'm dealing with keeps pushing DIE efforts in hiring, which I can't do anything about, but she keeps shitting the bed with either recruits she thought would be perfect DIE candidates who are utterly incompetent, or mostly black men who literally do not care about any Social Justice stuff.
She's beating her head into a wall to slowly learn that competency is way more important than DIE, and that when you sacrifice competency for DIE, the consequences are severe.
I honestly doubt she cares. She sounds more of an activist, activists do not care if a project fails they will just get hired somewhere else for more money.