Ping.
Yes.
The result is that almost every office and semi-skilled job is looking for at least a two year degree when it is total nonsense. It does not matter what skills you have, they are looking for a piece of paper that says you forked over $10,000 to sit in class and be told things that will either have no relevance to your job or that you already knew.
Forget the on the job training you got, forget the fact you not only know all the systems but know why they are the way they are, that means nothing any more.
So let's fire the person who has been with the company 30 years and knows where all the bodies are buried and hire a perky 23 year-old that has no idea how to handle a payroll garnishment. Heck she didn't even know what a garnishment was!
It was a savings on the books. But once the people in the plant knew they could get her to do anything just by coming up with a official sounding reason the fun began.
Took me six months to straighten out the mess she left.