QUOTE(samson @ Mar 3 2004, 09:42 AM)It's a bunch of crap!!!!!!! I don't know how many times I have met newly hired engineers from GM, fresh out of college with their degrees, that don't know a lick about what their supposed to be doing.
And talk about discipline coming from the experiences of going to college.........yeah right, let's talk about the discipline of dealing with "degree wielding" employees that don't know a thing about the job they were hired to do!!
This, I'm sure, pertains to many other jobs in this world and it's all complete bull. Generally speaking (I'm sure some students attend college to actually learn something) how many college students, in this day and age, really learn anything about anything? In my opinion they just know that they "deserve" higher paying jobs, after they graduate, because of their degree, while they haven't even learned to spell correctly much less show the "discipline" to double check something a simple as their spelling. Okay, I'm sure all the rioting after sporting events, hazing episodes at frats and sororities, binge drinking deaths, date rapes, cheating and plagiarism that I've heard and read about teaches them something about something. I'm just not sure what it is.
In my opinion, too much emphasis is placed on degrees, and not enough on what people actually know or are capable of. I also believe that while more people are going to college and "earning" their degrees, our society as a whole is becoming more and more
ignorant every day!!!!!
Look around you, what do you think??
First of all, degree or not, there are tons of people with or without degrees that aren't doing their jobs either.
Second, it takes a lot of time and energy to get a degree. You just don't get it overnight. You just don't pass without doing anything. I worked my butt off to get my diploma and partied too. College kids may party, but while they are partying at frats and sororities, the kids who aren't going to college are partying with their high school friends and in the bars. They ALL are partying.
Third, society is just an ignorant today as it was yesterday and in the 1950's. I see some of the brightest kids around these days. My god daughter is in 1st grade, speaks fluent spanish and is close to being fluent in French, she does algebra and takes science classes...
The problem is not the kids with degrees, its the management who doesn't know how to properly communicate and teach them the job.
You shouldn't expect to just get a job because you have experience and the college kids shouldn't expect to get jobs just because of their degree....It helps to have experience or a degree...
Talk about complaining that people without degrees aren't given a chance, yet you don't think people with degrees should be given a chance. EVERYONE should be given a chance.