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There is long tradition of evening schools.
by jkot 12y ago
There is long tradition of evening schools.
- VLM 12y agoThose are a resume stain along the lines of the paragraph beginning with "Traditional college degrees represent several different kinds of information." and ending with "tell the job market almost exactly the same thing: “This person was good enough to get into Harvard.”" A traditional student trajectory tells the HR lady the following positive (from the point of view of corporate HR) things: 1) Came from a social / economic / racial class able to afford schooling instead of work in early years 2) Dedication to a pointless goal (graduate in 4 years vs 5+, or in the corporate world this would be pointless grinding optimization of meaningless numerical metric goals) 3) Able to take on huge debt load (see #1 above) and has a huge debt load thus easier to mistreat because they've got that loan payment hanging over them (see also the reason why companies love when employees take out a mortgage or car loan, welcome to mandatory unpaid overtime LOL) 4) applicant is a follower not a leader and does whatever people tell them. Once that meant taking out $100K in loans to get a piece of paper, after hiring it'll mean helping the boss "smooth over" some regulations and accounting issues or whatever other form of corruption as long as it comes from above. Because authority wouldn't be authority unless it was correct, right?
- sago 12y agoI'd like to think your points are unnecessarily and viciously cynical. I'd like to think that, but actually I suspect you are dead right.