“....The same goes on in corporate HR management discussions daily.
“This position is slated minority female.”...”
Yep. Seen it with my own eyes many times throughout my career.
Then, once in the position, they can’t perform because they’re otherwise unqualified to actually do the job, and corporate HR pretty much forces the one most qualified, that should have gotten the position to begin with, to “train” them. I’ve seen in a few instances where the most qualified had to actually perform the day-to-day job requirements to keep the division from failing, and the unqualified one in the position could care less about “learning to do the job” and essentially become just a “quota employee” but paid the big salary. Meanwhile, the person actually doing the job gets nothing for it...no recognition/no raise/no anything. I’ve seen qualified people totally disgusted with it and request transfer to another division to start over, but most of em just outright resign in disgust. They move on to a competitor or start over in a totally different venue. Yeah, it totally sucks.
He worked his way up and was slated (everyone thought) to become the director. You can guess the rest. They gave to job to a snazzily-dressed black woman who passed the bar exam like one month previously, and he was supposed to train her and then be her assistant.
He quit.
And signed up with the U.S. Navy JAG Corps to pay off his school loans and his father's debts.
I just --- wow, I shake my head.
You just described my last job to a T.
I was to train my new boss. By train, I was to do her work while she went to lunch. I left instead.
Don;t want to get started on H.R here, but I will say they are all women, and nothing ever gets done, or they always screw up