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 can't tell either. I swim in a sea of incompetence, and my nightmares mostly consist of reaching the shore only to realize I belong there too.
The scary part is that most of the people two rungs below me on the ladder have certs that I don't, and I can't imagine how they got them with all the things they don't know.
Certs are bullshit, the stupidest people I know have a ton of certs. I'm guessing teacher hand holding and rote memorization are getting these people through, because they can't troubleshoot for shit.