They drop off their own dry cleaning?
Posted on 06/09/2021 5:37:28 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
I’m not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America’s elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I relished the opportunity to employ talented graduates of Princeton, Yale, Harvard and the rest. Today? Not so much.
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The supposed best and brightest spend their time navel-gazing and weeping because someone said or did something that triggers their inner screaming brat. We are in deep, deep trouble.
We hired a PhD electrical engineer. He didn’t know that you could put a diode in backwards. What are they teaching in school these days? Not everything can be solved with a computer simulation.
Whatever happened to “Mind your own business”?
And, if they don’t, they find out why their nose protrudes the way it does.
Let me urge everyone on my list, if you haven’t done so, get Charles Murray’s book, “Coming Apart.” Merely the “bubble test” he has in there is worth the book. Give that to your friends. I think they would find it fun, and probably revealing.
This book shows how we have created these “superzips”-—zip codes that are entirely dominated by Ivy League grads and people in the top 5% of American wealth holders, and they do not see ANYONE else in their daily lives except to order a coffee or drop off dry cleaning.
They drop off their own dry cleaning?
Wow.
(For those who don't know, the primary purpose of a diode is to control current in one direction.)
Within a matter of months, he'd p*$$ed off the help and Japanese partners so bad that they threatened to quit unless the Ivy Leaguer was replaced.
In a panic, they sent former Mormon missionary who happened to be working as a night manager at one of their Shearton hotels in Utah to serve as an interim replacement. He was merely a graduate of a common sense university well-known to Mormons (BYU) and turned the whole thing around, so they kept him on despite the lack of an Ivy League pedigree.
The Ivy Leagues have only gotten worse since that 30+ years ago scenario.
The Ivy League thinking is toxic, plus they believe they are better humans for having graduated Harvard. Read that last part again.
The Ivy League schools of Law and Business should be burned to the ground, the land sown with salt, and the “professors” driven naked into the howling wilderness.
America would be better off for it.
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Someone drives a Ferrari around town with the license plate “NOCOLLEGE”. I really would like to meet this guy. I see the car in traffic about once a month.
Is he Indian? They’re usually even worse,
The author is a very efficient writer.
I have been wondering if this was indeed the way many employers privately feel. The wrong new employee can ruin a company’s morale like a rotten apple dropped into a barrel of fresh fruit.
This is a very real problem with what the left has been doing for years. Now anyone the left disagrees with is automatically a racist, homophobe, sexist, fascist, etc.
These are, or were, serious accusations. The left throws them out as a matter of course. The left is both childish and wily in this regard.
It is childish to immediately lash out at someone you disagree with. Emotionally immature. Perhaps it is because all too often we no-longer let our kids have disagreements, learn how to disagree with respect, win, lose, etc. Now anyone they disagree with must be destroyed. It is apparently ok to immediately resort to making completely unfounded horrible accusations.
It is wily because it is a pretty good, if well-worn tactic. It immediately puts your adversary, that being anyone you disagree with on anything, on the defensive. White? Automatically assumed to be racist - prove you're not. President Trump supporter? Automatically assumed to be fascist - prove you're not. Don't enthusiastically support and promote the left's agenda? You're automatically a homophobe, Islamophobe, climate-denier, big-oil stooge, big-pharma dupe, etc. etc.
The left's main tactic is putting others on the defensive. The "do it or see it our way or else." People who have been indoctrinated into that mindset are not going to be good team players - unless the whole team thinks exactly like them. At work we have over a dozen openings right now. We will not hire just to put a backside in a seat. Anyone who looks like they would disrupt our good team dynamic is an automatic "no" on hiring.
A timely article. This is the week we heard about the female psychologist who openly fantasizes about shoot white people in the head with a gun.
She was invited to lecture at YALE.
Yale knew of her murderous racism before they graciously invited her to speak. Once she did speak the University “was not sure” if her remarks should be considered racist.
I was always astonished to sit down and interview a prospective job candidate with top academic credentials and a master’s degree from a top school … and learn early in the interview that this person had never once been gainfully employed up to the age of 25 or 26. These people were uniformly unprepared for any type of work environment.
Too many don’t actually know the substance of their degree.
I saw too much cheating. Eventually, it leaves you dumb, bit seemingly “the most employable.”
Lost a long-term friendship over it.
You mean current only flows one direction through a diode? I think I learned that in 5th grade.
I see college graduates working in menial tasks such as medical scheduling. Seems a terrible waste of resources to send folks to 4-5 years of college just so they can do stuff like that.
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