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.

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 all 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.

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 all 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.