Yeah I was well prepared for the realities of a modern HR department.

They essentially traded a competent and enthusiastic operator for an incompetent and physically incapable operator. It was absolutely a DEI measure because "wE nEeD mOrE wOmEn iN mInInG."

As with all of these plane crashes due to these measures, someone else is going to die in the mine if they keep hiring people like who they traded me for.