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Same kind of shit is still going on in silicon valley.
by master_yoda_1 10y ago
Same kind of shit is still going on in silicon valley.
- dnautics 10y agoYou think it's bad here? If you ever take the DC metro, look out the window at the Pentagon metro station (but others are often bad too). You will see exclusively two ad buys over all of the signs. The first is for some large defense contractor, usually Northrop, advertising weapons systems or IT services. The other half of the ads are for "Graduate School" which is some sort of organization that confers masters and phds. Perfect for the aspiring bureaucrat that needs to check that qualification off the list. I had a friend pulled in to one of these "health policy PhD" (she wasn't in the DC area) and she was excited to be in a degree program with high ranking bureaucrats in the HHS. Edit: found a link to the organization, apparently they don't give out masters and phds... How confusing! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_School_USA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_School_USA
- cafard 10y agoI never heard that this school (which used, I think, to be the Department of Agriculture Graduate School) gave out any degrees. Having said that, you are correct about Washington, DC. Part of it, I think, is the rules around government contracting: if I can bill John Doe, B.A., for $x/hour, I can probably bill Richard Roe, M.S. for $(x+y)/hour or John O'Nokes, Ph.D. for $(x+y+z)/hour. The government contractors also can offer tuition reimbursement for their employees, untaxed, if the classes "maintain and improve" skills for the job then held.