cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43578170
The irony
Submitted 3 weeks ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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11111one11111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This isn’t an airport
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh fuck, it’s not?? Then where the hell am I?? My flight is leaving in 10 minutes.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, no, they are unto something. Why ask for a college degree for a job that only requires a GED
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I thought it was funny. Feel like its more trying to put together a vibe in a way it would fit in a meme. Like the forget everything you learned in college is a saying (feel its from long ago though) that you would only here with jobs that required a college degree. Usually the idea is it was the old jaded guy to the fresh out of school guy on the first day while showing the ropes.
SippyCup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been in hiring meetings, probably 12-15 of them, where we screened candidates by education level. It literally did not matter to the hiring manager what field their degree was in, where they went, or if they’d even graduated yet. He just wanted everyone to have or to be working towards a degree.
This was a call center. The job posting literally only listed high school diploma or equivalent as a job requirement. There was absolutely nothing about a college experience that would markedly improve your work at that job.
When that was explained to him, as only a handful of applicants during one round of hiring were even in school, he said, “if they haven’t been to college they quit sooner.”
That was it. The only justification for screening out people without higher education. He had a hard time keeping people at work and figured that people with worthless degrees would feel more stuck than people without them.
RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So they want the expensive piece of paper just to prove you can endure 4 years of something you’ll never use? Talk about a barrier to entry.
RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So they want the expensive piece of paper just to prove you can endure 4 years of something you’ll never use? Talk about a barrier to entry.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What you studied is not such of essence. That you studied, however, is. During a degree, your maturity grows involuntarily, which is what I want. I don’t care what knowledge you gained there, because anything is a bonus.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Learning is a skill.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They just want employees shackled by student loan debts.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hello US Defaultism
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Student loan debt is an American thing, but the sentiment is common in companies around the world. So it’s unlikely that’s the case.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Knowledge is free, but college is not. The older I get and the more people I meet, the more I see how little connection there is between basic degrees and intelligence.
Knowledge and maturity can be gained through various paths in life. Whether one sits in a classroom or not, someone dedicated to learn will learn while someone just looking to coast by will coast by. A lot of people have gone to college not due to a love of learning, but because it was expected of them.