Fired Before Hired: How Corporations Rigged The Job Market

At least part of the reason you get so many people with MS degrees applying for a job as a secretary is that the universities are cranking out MS degrees that are stunningly inappropriate for any conceivable business purpose. People who get MS degrees in electrical engineering generally get decent engineering jobs.
 
College was just a place for parents to send their kids to work off some steam and make connections (or if female to find a husband.) How do you think all those big fraternity and sorority houses were built? Parents wanted their kids to live in the environment they were accustomed to.

College is just a playground for the rich. People mistakenly thought kids who did well went to college. They don't do well because they went to college, they do well because their parents are rich. Now, everybody goes to college. So a degree isn't really that big of a deal.
 
fxwannaB said:
It is a big deal if you don't have one...
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no kidding, so all we are doing is adding one more bar to entry, because we don't really need you that bad.

One of my kids is a professional student. She gets a degree, checks out the job market, and just goes back to school to get another degree. Been doing that her whole life. Sometimes she is on food stamps and Medicaid. Other times they are flying her all around the world to attend a conference.

With thousands of job apps being submitted, a lack of degree is just an easy excuse to toss your app in the waste bucket. If you don't have one, they don't really need you. But if you have one, get in line behind all the other people that have one.
 
Employee University. That's a school that you go to which teaches you how to be a good employee. They teach you how to dress, and talk, and behave yourself. And most importantly, how to create a good resume.
 
TooOldForThis said:
At least part of the reason you get so many people with MS degrees applying for a job as a secretary is that the universities are cranking out MS degrees that are stunningly inappropriate for any conceivable business purpose. People who get MS degrees in electrical engineering generally get decent engineering jobs.
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Yes but I doubt more than 1% of the population has the innate intelligence to get an electrical engineering degree, and regardless there is still not unlimited demand. The issue today is that for mid-level ability people, opportunities are shrinking very past.
 
MrN said:
Yes but I doubt more than 1% of the population has the innate intelligence to get an electrical engineering degree, and regardless there is still not unlimited demand. The issue today is that for mid-level ability people, opportunities are shrinking very past.
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so what do you do with the "middle" class? Nobody needs them anymore. We always need hard core physical labor like unloading trucks and picking peppers. But even then, sometimes tech figures out a cheaper way to do it so even the pepper picker gets laid off due to a machine.

Who really needs the "middle class"? Their only function is to consume. Many if not most business is to sell to consumers. And that is the "middle" class.

democrats have been talking about it forever, republicans are just jumping on board

what we need, What do we need!? A middle class!!!!

You would think it should be easy, since by definition most people are "average" or "middle class" How could it be otherwise?

So our goal is to create mediocrity.

and 2016 coming up, new leader, all you will hear is, "We need more people that are not too smart, but not too dumb. Right there in the middle. Vote for me."
 
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