You get passed over for promotion at major corporations.
100%. And as we quickly approach the pinnacle of insanity, HR teams are adopting a new compensating control: Imposter Syndrome
What is Imposter Syndrome, you ask? It’s the suffering endured by affirmative action hires. You see, they didn’t deserve to be hired, their coworkers know they didn’t deserve to be hired, and so they aren’t treated as competent fellow employees.
And who’s at fault when normal employees don’t expect much from the affirmative action hires? You guessed it! The normals!