When the wokeists in the HR departments gained more power than the business sides of corporations then merit disappeared. It happened to me.
Happened to me, as well. Corporate HR departments started fill up with angry white liberal women, angry black women, and gay men 30+ years ago. A straight white male doesn’t stand a chance anymore... So after 24 years in the financial services industry and area bank president title, I was persona non grata... There were three positions in the corporation all eliminated on the same day. We were replaced by younger wokesters that had the same job, but a different title. Every interview I went to was with one or more of the three types described above, and I knew they were just going through the motions to be able to avoid accusations of discrimination.
Right!
Purge the HR departments! End discrimination against straight white men! Bring back American power!
Same experience. When the angry women in HR made it impossible for me to hire and promote people in my own department based purely on merit, and I found I wasn’t even allowed to see job applications and resumes from people who didn’t meet their DEI criteria, I knew it was time to make sure my parachute was packed, because sooner or later they’d find an excuse to defenestrate me. Which they did.
The only satisfaction I got out of this was six months later, when they asked me to come back as a consultant to try to fix the resulting mess, I was in a position to tell them to F. O.
Now they have a system that's failing as white men, who witnessed what happened to their fathers and uncles, refuse to be the tax and debt slaves. The globalists didn't care, thinking they'd import swarthy invaders to run the system, but the swarthies can't.
The components of these systems that require ingenuity, discipline, etc. continue to fail as the white man walks away.
The globalists now want to negotiate, but white men know it's all or nothing.
You are not alone. This has happened to an amazing number of men and women. An army of men and women.... Think about that.
I had idiot gatekeepers in HR departments who demanded more years of software experience than the software had even existed.
The only way I see a way out of it is to play their game. Identify as a woman and Injun and sue the crap out of them when they refuse to hire you for your “identity.”