Work Vent
When I said that I do not make hiring decisions without input from my team because I know that I have internalized biases, and experience and research have shown that they come in despite our best efforts, Dude (cis white straight man) told me that I am just underselling myself.
He thinks that learning from my past mistakes and listening to others to overcome my own flaws are weaknesses and symptoms of impostor syndrome.
Work Vent
This is actually somewhat hilarious because my strongest known biases are against people like Dude and it totally showed up when I was evaluating Dude during his interview. We hired him anyway because all the other candidates accepted better offers.
(This is actually not hilarious because Dude is one of the people I report to and this was during a meeting about how we can hire more people who aren't white.)
