[arglebarnacle]

I assume your choice to describe average HR reps as “clueless ladies” isn’t meant to suggest that you respect e.g. women software engineers on your team any less. But if the gender of the clueless HR employees isn’t relevant, why mention it? Maybe worth reflecting on whether calling them clueless ladies rhetorically emphasizes their cluelessness

[tomrod]

The OP should have left off "ladies" as that was unnecessary -- clueless is a sufficient descriptor for many people in many roles (whether genuine behavior, strategic fiefdoming, or learned helplessness).

Here is the US BLS breakout of demographics by occupation category: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm

[wongarsu]

To save everyone the click: HR managers: 76% female, HR workers: 75% female, HR assistants: 84% female.

[steeleyespan]

Reality denial and picking on people who state simple truth is evil.

[LeafItAlone]

~80% of software developers are male. [1]

I’m not sure the percentage of companies that use software for highlighting candidates, but Anthropic almost certainly does and this [2] source says 75+% do.

So since men wrote the software that didn’t highlight the candidate, is it the clueless men that caused this?

[1] https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-...

[planb]

Yes - people in HR departments are often female and often clueless, but I don't see the parent denying this. The wording of OP connected both though, which is sexist and can be considered "evil".

[elzbardico]

After years hearing justly about bad things perpetrated by males as a class, without any concerns about generalizations, I think we are mature enough to also call for responsibility in the other side of the aisle.

Having a free pass for doing evil stuff is what gave man their bad rep, should we now for equity give women a pass to become the new slave lords?

[hollowonepl]

Nopes, nothing to the ladies in general nor any other gender in general. Just a shortcut to my own negative experience with HR by example. English is my foreign language and in my country we are not that allergic to terminology. But clueless processors stay as valid… regardless of particular denomination.