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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Lesley Carhart
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •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.
Lesley Carhart
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in reply to Kevin Bowersox • • •@kevinbowersox It's not smoke and mirrors, it's jut that the biggest merit is being a white Christian man. That's the first selection criteria.
There's hiring on future merit, potential, and that requires being aware of your own biases.
And there's hiring justly on past merit, which requires fixing the pipeline and being aware of not just your own biases but the systemic biases shaping the pipeline from before pre-school.