IDK man, but this DEI hire is teaching a 6 day class on industrial cybersecurity while also keeping up with a DFIR job while also selling a house and doing two visa applications alone while all this shit waves is going on. And even cleaned the gutters. But it’s probably because I have t**s.
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This shit hurts extra because I had zero legs up in just about anything I have achieved in my career or hobbies, and doing it all before substantial DEI initiatives made it so a lot of people in authority told me to fuck off no matter how hard I worked. It took me years to break into professional cybersecurity. Nobody would mentor me. Professional groups made it purposefully uncomfortable to join. My degree program was 95% men. I had to room with another career in Air Force training. I smiled and shut up through rape jokes and studied alone.
I’ve dedicated so much of my life to making sure nobody else hit those same real road blocks in mentoring and finding jobs, but almost all the progress we have made in my lifetime in the US is just gone, overnight.
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Talking about a meritocracy just because you think you hire and promote equally at your personal organization based on only skill is painfully naive. The pipeline is the problem. Breaking in is the problem.
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@hacks4pancakes the belief that it’s possible to set aside socially-ingrained biases and actually promote based solely on skill is also pretty naive. Studies have repeatedly shown that different demographics exhibiting the same traits get scored differently based on their demographic. E.g., Strong leadership is good in men, but in women it’s “bossy.”
Bias is unconscious and pervasive. Without recognition of that fact, and deliberate steps to mitigate it, a true meritocracy is not possible.
This is in addition to (or possibly contributing to) the pipeline problem.
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@mathaetaes @hacks4pancakes I've seen so many useless nepo hires, and people who were neither kind nor all that smart or skilled promoted to team leads and higher. It's all just so gross and disfunctional.
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@mathaetaes @hacks4pancakes ... and the only people with the ability to change it think it's working just fine. For you to say otherwise erodes their ego psychologically, which isn't a great start :P
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