Posted on 02/04/2024 4:34:33 PM PST by george76
On one hand this looks positive. But I can also see where this could go very, very wrong.
This is actually a good thing.
Young people have been paying a “stupid tax” by borrowing money for college when they do not belong there.
Now they can become incompetent and useless state workers without getting in debt to do so.
;-)
Illegals and the unqualified will benefit
So, figure 5-10 years the state will be flooded with many more incompetent managers than they already have—promoted rather than fired.
About time, most jobs don’t require a degree and most Bachelors can be replaced with industry tests.
Stupid is as stupid does!
Under “gay” Maura Healey, Massachusetts—once one of the most educated states in the Union—will now lead the country in incompetence and stupidity!
Mass. is on the path to DIE.
Absolutely correct. Unless you’re going into a hard science, college is a complete waste.
I'm thinking the gov't response to Covid, except the gov't officials responsible for the fiasco won't be required to have degrees.
This might not be a bad idea in the private sector, but how do you fire civil servants who can't or won't do their jobs?
A LOT of government jobs don’t require college degrees, IMO. It would be good to get back to the basics of ‘service,’ and correspondingly less costly salaries for the majority of drone workers.
However, that won’t happen because MA is not looking for efficiency; they are looking for more jobs for blacks, Hispanics and other peoples of color. It’s just another more subtle form of quotas, affirmative action and the hip, new replacement - DEI.
More DEI BS....So, Mass state gov’t won’t have the best & brightest. Not even close.
If you go to college and don’t get a certification or license as a result, you probably wasted your money.
Yes, but this is Massachusetts we're talking about. The degree won't be replaced with industry tests. It will be replaced with party cards and political tests. The democrats are restoring an unrestricted spoils system.
Except that unlike the spoils systems of olden days, the new hires will be tenured. Massachusetts will end up with civil service job protections without civil service entry requirements. When they eventually remember why the civil service system was instituted in the first place, it will be too late. The hacks can't be fired.
That almost guarantees that the new hires will be far more intelligent...
I don’t mind reducing the college degree requirement for those with the needed skill set, particularly for tech and complex skill jobs but to reduce it for inclusion sake, no way. Let United hire them as pilots. I understand they are looking for flight dummies for their rainbow cockpit coalition.
“Governor Maura Healey signed the order, titled ‘Instituting Skill-Based Hiring Practices,’ to ‘reduce structural barriers that result in inequities in pay and access to employment.’”
Go mow a lawn Healey,
Much easier to rack up the overtime on details watching some guys dig a trench with a coffee in your hand.
It's not about "inequities" or any nonsense as that. The truth is that governments are not competitive in the talent market.
Government can get two types of employees to fill these positions; recent college graduates who need a job out of college and will move on in two or three years, or those who are willing to work a few more years after retiring from private industry.
The government doesn't want to pay pensions so in addition to encouraging turnover, for decades they've been outsourcing work previously done by government employees.
This is just the next step in such decline where they'll fill the ranks with even lesser qualified, including illegal aliens who have no diplomas or degrees.
You don’t need a degree to give drivers license tests or sign people up for gubmint cheese. Local government jobs require higher skills but the only requirement is to win an election.
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