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As an employer, this kind of crap infuriates me. According to lawyers, OSHA & all other government agencies, employers are responsible for every thing their stupid employees do. They get in an accident, it’s our fault, we’re sued. They disobey safety policies, it’s our fault, we’re sued and / or fined.
They keep limiting what we can ask, but we’re more and more responsible for them.
F’d up world. We need personal responsibility and common sense again.
Obama won’t protect the unborn but loves criminals.
The entire application and interview process is an obvious series microaggressions. Eliminate all consideration of qualifications and just hire the first one through the door.
It looks like the author overlooks an important factor here: if employers didn’t require college degrees even for jobs that require no serious academic background, most colleges would go out of business tomorrow.
When I was 18 I got accepted to an elite university. Not quite Ivy League, but a very prestigious reputation in our part of the country.
Tuition at the time was $13K. My dad thought that too expensive so I did not go.
Have regretted the decision ever since. Primarily because my entire adult life I’ve been watching drooling morons and idiots repeatedly get jobs, promotions and gobs of money thrown at them just because they have a degree from the “right” university.
I know several pieces of ambulatory human waste who have degrees from the school that accepted me. I doubt they could chew gum and tie their shoes at the same time. No matter. Companies see that degree on their resume, they have their multiple orgasm, and they write them a check.
In life you will never go broke underestimating how shallow people can be.
That’s a great idea! There are so many app!I can’t that employers use it as a way to eliminate blocks of candidates.
I would think that the large gap on the ex con’s resume would be a telltale sign for the HR department.
Just do away with degrees. You get a level 1 or a level 2 or a level three certificate of attendance.
From the lowest prestige to the highest, universities have largely been overtaken by Marxist social programming, shaping useful idiots and selfish “altruistic” entitled zombies that I’ve seen fail to perform in the workplace...
I’d rather hire people who worked hard to earn their specialty expertise and learned from all the mistakes, than hire someone who wants it all handed over on a plate and has no idea what real elbow grease (mental or physical) really is in the workplace.
The person who worked hard without the college degree has a proven work ethic that carries over to your business... along with lessons they learned (mistakes to avoid and how to recover from them).
Some who get their college degrees have strong work ethics, but it seems to be more and more rare in the cry-baby college culture. It’s up to the degreed college candidates to prove to me they have enough real world skills and work ethic.
The College Degree “checkbox” is a crutch, one that implies favor to the college degreed when they are not always the best workers and problem solvers. I support removing the College Degree “checkbox.”
I’m as pro-business as anyone else here and I say it’s long time for this. I’ve been the victim of blatantly obvious trickery by too many businesses - insane qualifications for ‘monkey work’ jobs, college degrees REQUIRED for ‘entry level’, 2-6 years experience for positions not stated to be entry level but posted everywhere...
I really do apologize to any fellow conservatives who are offended by this, I appreciate the work you did for the grades you got, but there is just too much tomfoolery going on and the only leverage we have is to go to our duly elected officials and pass laws.