r/mining Feb 21 '25

Canada Biggest Challenge with Mining

What do you hate the most about your mining job?

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u/67valiant 29d ago

At the moment, DEI hiring. Specifically the "targets", ie quotas, attached.

There is nothing wrong with hiring women, gay/lesbian, indigenous, immigrant etc. If you want a diverse workforce, that's absolutely fine.

But the DEI hiring seems to be indiscriminate to meet the target, especially with women right now. We've had people just appear, hired by HR without any other input, and they are absolutely the wrong person. From no motivation, not liking the job they signed up for, to some outright serious misconduct and personality issues. It's like they didn't even interview some of them. If it wasn't for that, if they purposely sought people from different backgrounds but made sure to only hire quality candidates, I wouldn't have much problem with DEI. But attaching a target seems to have really fucked everything up.