What a strange conundrum. I have been working in the Computer Software Engineering field for a couple of decades now and in doing so, living in various places, I get to meet so many diverse personalities. Currently I live in the South of the United States and only moved here due to cheap land and because there's a need for people with certain skillsets that some companies want to hire. For the most part, my time here has been peaceful and very enjoyable. However, I have noticed a trend that is most disturbing.
Alot of the people that I have worked with while living in the South are not qualified to hold the positions they currently occupy. I find this to be very odd. While I do believe that people should be afforded the opportunity to grow and learn, what I have seen here is very disturbing.
I have noticed that certain favored people with certain political, ideological viewpoints are 'groomed' for 'Leadership' and the rest of the populace, regardless of ability, education, experience, and/or skillset are brushed aside. Personally, I have witnessed countless unqualified individuals obtain employment with very impressive job titles but only survive in those positions by taking credit for other contributor's work and/or by being apart of a good 'ol boys network (in many cases being part of a religious, ethnic or ideological group).
Ofcourse, this happens in many different kinds of jobs but this should not be the case when the jobs are high skilled or subject to specific knowlege (Software Development, Mathematics, etc). I assume that the reasons are obvious, since these can affect companies at a much larger scale due to the sensitivity of the knowledge required.
My only hope is that transparency illumines the unelightened and that our lopsided society can actually be competive again. In doing so, we won't be able to afford putting incompetent people that are well connected in places that hurt the economy, the people with the actual credentials for those jobs and the rest of the entire society at large.
What I gather from this mindset is that they appear not only to be hypocrites but they also suffer from some sort of 'small man complex.' In short, they display indicators of being either sociopathic and/or anxious and/or insecure about themselves and/or have a desire to display control uneccesarily and/or all of the previously mentioned criteria.
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