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spongebob
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 Posted: 04/13/05 - 13:08 Post subject:
Back to the original post - wanttorun100's description of a bunch of cocky, arrogant, overpaid, Starbuck's drinking, Talbot clothes wearing, young little punks acting like their shiz don't stink and walking around like they are there to "save" a company that has probably been operating just fine for several decades without them makes me cringe.
Carry on.
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Noley
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Posted: 04/13/05 - 13:09 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | Noley, do you think being educated is a bad thing?
While I agree with you that it's not the best mentality to have (yay I'll marry and never have to get a real job), there's nothing wrong with them going to college. I'd much rather people be educated and not use it than remain ignorant. |
Mech. Read what I was really saying there. I do not think being educated nor getting a college degree is a bad thing...not at all.
What pisses me off is that there are women out there who set out to go through the motions of getting those degrees with no intentions of ever using them...THEN TO BRAG THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED INSTEAD and live off their husbands...pop out babies...play tennis...plan birthday parties...when I know damn well that there were other women waiting in line (hard working women/men too) who wanted to get their Education degrees to become teachers to make a living. They had to wait it out a semester...a year...because the College of Ed was very select in it's undergrads getting in. Sometimes people couldn't wait that long and dropped out of the program/college altogether.
I was bothered by this then and now again today seeing that it's still a thing for young women to do.
Also, I think it's also a form or using men. "Tee hee. I'll just get married anyway and live off my husband". Come on! That's terrible!
Furthermore, we're in a era where we wanted to be treated more equal to our male counterparts and this says nothing to me but to be "Mrs. Happy Homemaker back in the 50's"... (Please don't take me wrong all you SAHM's). This is not what I wanted nor had planned when I set foot on campus at FSU in 1985. I wanted to be out there doing something and not back in the stone ages one day serving my husband 24/7.
So, education...getting one is great. Bragging about never using it and possibly taking up space for someone that could use it...what a f'ing waste!!!!
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Noley
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Posted: 04/13/05 - 13:15 Post subject:
Now if you really want to know how I feel on this issue...ask me later or PM me. I can stop giving you the cliffnoted version and spell it out for you. 
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TriBob
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Posted: 04/13/05 - 13:22 Post subject:
Still lots of women going for their MRS.
Also, I had a friend in an exclusive gym in DC and a lot of women only joined for more gold digging.
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Noley
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Posted: 04/13/05 - 13:23 Post subject:
| TriBob wrote: | Still lots of women going for their MRS.
Also, I had a friend in an exclusive gym in DC and a lot of women only joined for more gold digging. |
There's something wrong about this...very wrong.
I call them the Queen of Diamonds!
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andydp
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 05:50 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: | | Back to the original post - wanttorun100's description of a bunch of cocky, arrogant, overpaid, Starbuck's drinking, Talbot clothes wearing, young little punks acting like their shiz don't stink and walking around like they are there to "save" a company that has probably been operating just fine for several decades without them makes me cringe. Carry on. |
First of all I want to add it took me a long time to get my Master's in Public Administration. Secondly I was very fortunate my class was full of people who had been in the work force for many years so we had lots to share. Last when we got back to work, we went back to work without the neon signs flashing out our new degrees.
Now, about those brandi-new MBA's who think the world revolves around them... I want to tell you something an older and wiser Sergeant told me many years ago:
"Lieutenant, you will become indispensible to this organization the day you can put your finger in a cup of coffee and leave a dent."
And of course, we all know the joke about the various body parts and who was finally declared "boss".
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rolling rock
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 06:29 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: | Back to the original post - wanttorun100's description of a bunch of cocky, arrogant, overpaid, Starbuck's drinking, Talbot clothes wearing, young little punks acting like their shiz don't stink and walking around like they are there to "save" a company that has probably been operating just fine for several decades without them makes me cringe.
Carry on. |
my husband nearly has a stroke every year when the wall street "anal-lists" come in and make their 22-yo predictions on his company's solvency and forecasts. he's been there 23 years, these kids have been there two days but they do the forecast...and they shop at talbots too. he loathes them. i'll have to tell him to stop looking at their buttons before HE loses an eye.
/on to his game 
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RangerG
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 06:40 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | Now, about those brandi-new MBA's who think the world revolves around them... I want to tell you something an older and wiser Sergeant told me many years ago:
"Lieutenant, you will become indispensible to this organization the day you can put your finger in a cup of coffee and leave a dent."
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It's the wise Lieutenant who realizes that it's the grizzled old First Sergeant and the Master Sergeant who run the unit. And that listening to them, improves his longevity.
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andydp
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 07:11 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: |
It's the wise Lieutenant who realizes that it's the grizzled old First Sergeant and the Master Sergeant who run the unit. And that listening to them, improves his longevity. |
Its amazing the paralells between brandi new 2LTs and bradi new MBAs. They both think they alone have the knowledge to save the world.
Thread sidetrack:
A Staff Sergeant (E-6) I've been working out with for the past few years was recently appointed a 2LT. I told him now that he's a brandy new "Loootenant", I can give him heck. After all, he's one of "us" now. (Sorry Ranger)
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Kimba90
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 18:26 Post subject:
I've been in the work force (as a professional) for 16 years now, the last six in management.
I want to get my MBA. There are certain areas that I am weak in, and I know exactly what I want to learn. It's more for my own personal and professional growth than just the letters.
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andydp
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 18:48 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | I've been in the work force (as a professional) for 16 years now, the last six in management.
I want to get my MBA. There are certain areas that I am weak in, and I know exactly what I want to learn. It's more for my own personal and professional growth than just the letters. |
I don't think people are disparaging those who have MBAs. They are disparaging MBAs with absolutely zippo real world/work experience who think they are some sort of minor god like figure.
Even with experience, I would consider studying for an MBA if I had the money and the time. Good luck in your endeavors. I hope you do get your MBA
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airehead
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Posted: 04/14/05 - 22:31 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: |
I don't think people are disparaging those who have MBAs. They are disparaging ... who think they are some sort of minor god like figure.
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I think anyone, whether it be with a degree or not, with a Master's, PHD, MD, DDS, MDIV--yadda yadda that carries the above attitude is not going to be popular anywhere.
And anytime an individual carries a degree and they believe that it confers upon them some superior status to the common folk who don't have degrees--that's when I get really upset.
I know a$$holes with degrees and I know a$$holes without degrees. Know what? They both need to learn some humility.
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