Affirmative action also here.
I got passed up by people who were way underqualified because they were members of the protected classes.
Finally said to hell with this and went to work with a friend of mine. 6 employees. No BS. We couldn’t afford it.
I was never asleep and realized early on I wasn’t the right color or sex. First, it was the busing of black kids to white schools and white kids to black schools in the 70s. We lived 4 houses from what was supposed to be my high school but I’d never be able to attend it until my senior year. Crazy.
College followed with the Iranian foreign students not having to attend class or turn in a test but got the high grades on the bell curve.
Then, it was a postmaster told me to my face he’d never hire a female. I’d scored the highest on the civil service test so he was forced to interview me and waste his time.
Next, I was hired by the state and was ready to start the next morning but got a call that they must hire a black, so sorry. That job posting was up for years without a single black person applying.
Then there was the straight out of Chicago black supervisor who spoke and wrote reports in ebonics and had to be told the definition of far too many words in the English language. He thought “cistern” was “sister” and one of his minions had a hard time pronouncing anything correctly such as “perpetrator” was “pepper traitor”.
HQ finally saw there was a problem. Since they couldn’t/wouldn’t fire a minority, they split his territory. Unfortunately, our new supervisor a woman hating Middle Eastern imported muslim who was down right mean and clueless in every way. First thing he said to me was he hated me. First thing. SMH. Had never met me before that day. Once, a client gave me some home grown watermelons so I offered him one as a sort of peace offering. He jumped back like I’d shoved a rattlesnake in his face and went off on me. He went out of his way to sabotage people’s work to the point they were scared of getting into serious legal trouble. Eventually, everyone but myself and a man in another office quit but no one was being replaced so the workload was an impossible 24/7 covering several counties. BTW, it was child protective so... I tried to outlast the evil little creep but couldn’t. HQ refused to show him the door due to his minority status.