We've all known that it has been happening for decades, but it hits different when you're on the inside and have first-hand knowledge of their incompetence.
I know an HR Director who earns nearly $200k annually and can't type a paragraph without multiple obvious typos. She brings nothing to the table beyond filling a seat. All the heavy lifting is done by employment lawyers. Her and her ilk produce lame happy hour games and other bullshit that any 6th grader could match.
I've been with smaller company for quite a while now, but we got acquired and now I'm seeing the inside of one of the tech giants. It's even worse than I thought.
Every call has 12+ women doing the work of 2 competent men.
I'm exiting soon enough, and I'm not in HR so it doesn't impact me directly. It's just frustrating on a primal level almost. These worthless cunts walk around thinking they're doing something great. I feel really bad for Gen Z men. Pick a random dude off the street and he could step into these $200k HR roles tomorrow and crush it, but they'll never get the chance because they have a penis.
If I were starting my career today I think I'd say I'm trans because you can't beat this level of discrimination. You can start your own thing or find a small firm who isn't big enough to play the DEI game yet. But if you apply to a large corporation and you're a white man? Don't bother unless you say you're trans.
Just wanted to rant a bit. I know this isn't news to anyone here.
I have seen this pattern many times.
-Older competent male employee "wears many hats"
-Retires
-Replaced by a woman
-Management puffs her up "extremely qualified, fully capable, taking all the duties over.."
-Quickly becomes apparent she is not qualified
-Instead of reversing the promotion they outsource the parts of the job she can't do (all of them)
-Junior men get the extra workload (with no extra pay) or more women are hired to help. But they are also incompetent, so the cycle repeats, until all work has ultimately been offloaded onto men.
The only question is how many useless subordinate positions will be created before enough men have absorbed the workload for the job to function. It's exhausting to watch.
In one case, a man retired from a senior sales position. He was super good at his job so he made seven figure commissions. He made big deals that brought in tons of money. His replacement was a woman with no talent at all, and her sales were trash. Couldn't close any deals. She complained that she was being "discriminated" against due to the lower pay. The company tried to explain to her that commission based pay means she needed to make sales to get money. She went to a lawyer instead, sued, and won a $20 MILLION settlement.
Hiring women is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.
Only damned if you don't if you give too much away. Fail them in the first round or sooner if possible.