Business administration, huh? If you can't even spell plain english, my confidence in your ability to administer my business would be severely lacking to say the very least. Handwritten too, so she can't blame it on typos...
Poor spelling, poor grammar... got her Bachelor's in April of this year and by August she has filed suit, because they haven't found her a job in four months during a recession.
I think the defendant should challenge her to produce the warranty under which she was guaranteed employment even if she sucked rocks.
All I know is that said college is a for-profit college. They don't event report SAT or ACT scores of their students. (And, on a side note, its demographics are rather slanted.) It seems to have some of its programs accredited.
...I hear there are a few for-profits that are... okay...
Should first and third person pronouns really be used in a complaint? I don't think they should be...
i think that she is suing for the wrong thing. typically these colleges advertise that people who have "X" certification can obtain employment making "Y" amount of money. what they never tell you is that the cert is basically worthless without the experience, and most IT managers who get someone out of school like this will round file their application. she should be suing for false advertisement.
$70K for that?!? College should be laughing all the way to the bank. Only a liberal judge would let this past the initial filing. Anyone with sense with toss this out of the courtroom in gales of laughter.
U-J: I went to public school. Not quite the same thing apparently since at least in Canada they taught us how to spell!
College is merely proof that you can do what you are told, in a certain way and on a schedule. It does not confer intelligence or wisdom if you already lack those qualities. A degree is not a magic job talisman. It is the door stop that gets you in the door. Once in, it is a piece of paper and within 2-4 years, a worthless piece of paper (unless you're an engineer, lawyer, doctor, etc).
I'm not surprised by this. Not at all. Just hoping the collapse will come after I've headed for Bermuda on my boat so I can watch the resulting entertainment from afar.
"What more does it say about the sense of entitlement she has?"
Yup.
And this is yet another example of why this culture is fucked, and why people just don't appreciate the idea of freedom any longer.
She's convinced herself that she's owed something from someone else, and she's going to get it by force of law, with the aid of an attorney and a tort suit.
Fuck. Makes me want to walk into the woods, never to return.
As a somewhat more serious note, other than picking on Kevin for his typo, let me point to a discussion, and my contribution to it:
http://ernunnos.livejournal.com/1997681.html
He says that there's more than just the surface - and I can agree. To save some typing, my comment there:
I think you're missing the single biggest point - one that's unlikely to come out of this particular idiot's attempt. Had she asked for some more qualified help it would be far more likely.
But colleges and other schools routinely make claims and promises that would be verbal contracts anywhere else about jobs, careers, wages that are completely ludicrous.
For example, I graduated in a very highly lucrative field, where we were rarities, pursued heavily and intensely with a lot of competition.
And yet my fellow graduates received job offers that were staggeringly below the "average" promised us 4 years previous by the college. The numbers bantered around were 50-60k, first year. But almost all of my fellow students found that low to mid 30s was far more common, and the only one I knew of who received a job offer above 50k, also went to live where the COL was easily 2x that of the rest of the class. There's nothing wrong with the offers we received, they were well above all the other job offers people were getting, but it was eye-opening to find that the average wasn't anywhere near what we'd been promised.
That's her best argument, rivaled only by the fact that after 4 years, she wasn't trained and educated well enough to make it.
Think of her as a bad case to make precedent with, and realize that there is actually some substance to her claim and complaint. Higher Ed as it's currently constituted is a form of a scam and perpetual employment machine. Every year, tuition goes up by at least 3%.
There was a "College" like that out here in Silicon Valley a while back, and there still are a few. It was a technical, for-profit college, with the main apparent actual bud'ness of turning much of the student body around into its own meagerly-paid professoriat rather than the highly advertised pie-in-the-sky "$100k/yr. Animator" job or whatnot.
It went under a few years back,and they closed (and locked) the doors mid-term leaving students out in the parking lot.
Here's a very appropriate forum-thread as you will see, discussing three such colleges. They seem to fill in the cracks between a State College and Community College, gathering in some of the more ambitious/gullible High School grads: "22 thousand for 18 months?"
"Basically if they get you a 12 dollar job they have done their job."
"So far i think its easier then high school. Community college is harder and they teach same classes."
"Yea, i would of picked XXXXX if it offered bachelors because i saw so many fine girls."
I suppose this is where Markapalooza treads the boards in Education.
Just read the thread.
Hey DirtCrashr, you bring up a good point. Where is Markadelphia? He should be in here defending the product of his labor. This girl is probably a shining example of his.
Currently at his own blog, trying to defend socialize medicine and still saying things like "good capitalism." I gave up - any time I put up an argument to anything he and his liberal friends said, they'd all run away and he wouldn't respond unless it as something he could broach with generalizations.
Is it bad that dealing with a single person has made me swear that if I ever have children, I will not let them so much as speak to someone in public education?
I guess it's a good thing (for Marky) that he hasn't really returned. I have some excellent clubbage waiting for him; some of it from a book filled with Al Qaeda's own words.
"I have some excellent clubbage waiting for him..."
Y'know, I used to ponder things like that. But DJ / Unix outlined Markadelphia's approach to arguments / discussion quite awhile ago, and it was something like 6 standard replies.
And he sticks to that form without the slightest, tiniest hint of deviation. Not a smidgen.
I genuinely wandered over to his blog thinking that perhaps he was just feeling overwhelmed here or that it really was a time constraint, but it's not. The part that amuses me most is that he maintains a condescending, "teacher-to-student" tone and mentality in his "discussions." The man can actually be classified according to Freudian, "you're sad today because your father didn't buy you an ice cream cone once when you were 6," armchair psychology.
Quite frankly, I gave up on him. It's fun to watch him flounder here, but when you actually sit back and realize that he's supposed to pass as a functioning human being, it's scary. My cats do stupid shit, but they don't try and rationalize it the way he does.
As for the topic at hand, I thought this bit was fascinating.
"the office of Career Advancement Information Technology Couselor [sic] did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call the graduates that recently finished college for a [sic] interview to get a job placement."
Besides the nonexistent grammar and spelling errors, she demonstrates her inability to think by suggesting that the Counselor's office should somehow be able to force prospective employers to call her. What are they supposed to do, go into the clients' offices and stick a gun in their face? Based on this girl's incoherent "writing", that's what it would take to get me to call her for any reason.
I wonder if she shares her only brain cell with this girl.
Hm. I guess I could broach that one.
On one hand, this girl / woman / female-engendered-mammal is an idiot. Her description of the issue, spelling, grammar, etc all affirm that.
On the other, I do tend to agree with Unix. For what these damned things advertise, they sure as hell don't deliver. I can point out maybe 2 classes I took out of a four year degree plan that have had any impact on my career whatsoever - I can point out one more that I actually *learned* anything from.
Doing a simple projection of my salary against student loans versus alternatives, I would have been better off taking out a similar loan for a house and working at a Chuck E Cheese for the next fifteen years.
"Y'know, I used to ponder things like that. But DJ / Unix outlined Markadelphia's approach to arguments / discussion quite awhile ago, and it was something like 6 standard replies."
Yup, and it happened about ten months ago. You can find an enumeration of his standard responses beginning here. It's a classic thread.
Nope. I pulled a Mark there - just glanced down to the original list. It's not the first time I've referred to that post and missed out on crucial details.
Granted, I've yet to try and use a source to prove a point without reading it, only to have it turn out that the source in question actually counters my argument. Once I reach the honor of achieving THAT particular fuck-up, I may have to hide under my bed for a week or two.
Great Post. I blogged on this the other day and would have loved to have seen this before hand.
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Batchelor's degree
Nitpicky, but lemme guess.. you went to public school? :)
tuitision?
reinbursement?
Couselor?
Lastly, no use of a word-processor?
U-J, you have NO sense of irony. ;)
Hey, she got at least that much right. :)
Ah c'mon, shouldn't she have received a bitchelors degree?
She has a DUHgree.
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Galveston, TX
Business administration, huh? If you can't even spell plain english, my confidence in your ability to administer my business would be severely lacking to say the very least. Handwritten too, so she can't blame it on typos...
Poor spelling, poor grammar... got her Bachelor's in April of this year and by August she has filed suit, because they haven't found her a job in four months during a recession.
I think the defendant should challenge her to produce the warranty under which she was guaranteed employment even if she sucked rocks.
All I know is that said college is a for-profit college. They don't event report SAT or ACT scores of their students. (And, on a side note, its demographics are rather slanted.) It seems to have some of its programs accredited.
...I hear there are a few for-profits that are... okay...
Should first and third person pronouns really be used in a complaint? I don't think they should be...
Better penmanship than me, though.
She can't even spell... She should be suing over a lousy education. Or maybe sue her parents for not whipping her more often for poor grades.
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i think that she is suing for the wrong thing. typically these colleges advertise that people who have "X" certification can obtain employment making "Y" amount of money. what they never tell you is that the cert is basically worthless without the experience, and most IT managers who get someone out of school like this will round file their application. she should be suing for false advertisement.
What more does it say about the sense of entitlement she has?
Can you imagine someone 40 years ago making the claim that they deserve a job and they'll sue to get it?
I keep seeing it, but I stil don't want to believe it.
She wants to be rewarded for the stress caused by trying to become employed. This is entitlement mentality come home to roost.
$70K for that?!? College should be laughing all the way to the bank. Only a liberal judge would let this past the initial filing. Anyone with sense with toss this out of the courtroom in gales of laughter.
U-J: I went to public school. Not quite the same thing apparently since at least in Canada they taught us how to spell!
College is merely proof that you can do what you are told, in a certain way and on a schedule. It does not confer intelligence or wisdom if you already lack those qualities. A degree is not a magic job talisman. It is the door stop that gets you in the door. Once in, it is a piece of paper and within 2-4 years, a worthless piece of paper (unless you're an engineer, lawyer, doctor, etc).
I'm not surprised by this. Not at all. Just hoping the collapse will come after I've headed for Bermuda on my boat so I can watch the resulting entertainment from afar.
"What more does it say about the sense of entitlement she has?"
Yup.
And this is yet another example of why this culture is fucked, and why people just don't appreciate the idea of freedom any longer.
She's convinced herself that she's owed something from someone else, and she's going to get it by force of law, with the aid of an attorney and a tort suit.
Fuck. Makes me want to walk into the woods, never to return.
As a somewhat more serious note, other than picking on Kevin for his typo, let me point to a discussion, and my contribution to it:
Think of her as a bad case to make precedent with, and realize that there is actually some substance to her claim and complaint. Higher Ed as it's currently constituted is a form of a scam and perpetual employment machine. Every year, tuition goes up by at least 3%.http://ernunnos.livejournal.com/1997681.html
He says that there's more than just the surface - and I can agree. To save some typing, my comment there:
There was a "College" like that out here in Silicon Valley a while back, and there still are a few. It was a technical, for-profit college, with the main apparent actual bud'ness of turning much of the student body around into its own meagerly-paid professoriat rather than the highly advertised pie-in-the-sky "$100k/yr. Animator" job or whatnot.
It went under a few years back,and they closed (and locked) the doors mid-term leaving students out in the parking lot.
Here's a very appropriate forum-thread as you will see, discussing three such colleges. They seem to fill in the cracks between a State College and Community College, gathering in some of the more ambitious/gullible High School grads: "22 thousand for 18 months?"
"Basically if they get you a 12 dollar job they have done their job."
"So far i think its easier then high school. Community college is harder and they teach same classes."
"Yea, i would of picked XXXXX if it offered bachelors because i saw so many fine girls."
I suppose this is where Markapalooza treads the boards in Education.
Just read the thread.
Hey DirtCrashr, you bring up a good point. Where is Markadelphia? He should be in here defending the product of his labor. This girl is probably a shining example of his.
"Where is Markadelphia?"
Currently at his own blog, trying to defend socialize medicine and still saying things like "good capitalism." I gave up - any time I put up an argument to anything he and his liberal friends said, they'd all run away and he wouldn't respond unless it as something he could broach with generalizations.
Is it bad that dealing with a single person has made me swear that if I ever have children, I will not let them so much as speak to someone in public education?
I guess it's a good thing (for Marky) that he hasn't really returned. I have some excellent clubbage waiting for him; some of it from a book filled with Al Qaeda's own words.
"I have some excellent clubbage waiting for him..."
Y'know, I used to ponder things like that. But DJ / Unix outlined Markadelphia's approach to arguments / discussion quite awhile ago, and it was something like 6 standard replies.
And he sticks to that form without the slightest, tiniest hint of deviation. Not a smidgen.
I genuinely wandered over to his blog thinking that perhaps he was just feeling overwhelmed here or that it really was a time constraint, but it's not. The part that amuses me most is that he maintains a condescending, "teacher-to-student" tone and mentality in his "discussions." The man can actually be classified according to Freudian, "you're sad today because your father didn't buy you an ice cream cone once when you were 6," armchair psychology.
Quite frankly, I gave up on him. It's fun to watch him flounder here, but when you actually sit back and realize that he's supposed to pass as a functioning human being, it's scary. My cats do stupid shit, but they don't try and rationalize it the way he does.
As for the topic at hand, I thought this bit was fascinating.
"the office of Career Advancement Information Technology Couselor [sic] did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call the graduates that recently finished college for a [sic] interview to get a job placement."
Besides the nonexistent grammar and spelling errors, she demonstrates her inability to think by suggesting that the Counselor's office should somehow be able to force prospective employers to call her. What are they supposed to do, go into the clients' offices and stick a gun in their face? Based on this girl's incoherent "writing", that's what it would take to get me to call her for any reason.
I wonder if she shares her only brain cell with this girl.
"As for the topic at hand..."
Hm. I guess I could broach that one.
On one hand, this girl / woman / female-engendered-mammal is an idiot. Her description of the issue, spelling, grammar, etc all affirm that.
On the other, I do tend to agree with Unix. For what these damned things advertise, they sure as hell don't deliver. I can point out maybe 2 classes I took out of a four year degree plan that have had any impact on my career whatsoever - I can point out one more that I actually *learned* anything from.
Doing a simple projection of my salary against student loans versus alternatives, I would have been better off taking out a similar loan for a house and working at a Chuck E Cheese for the next fifteen years.
"Y'know, I used to ponder things like that. But DJ / Unix outlined Markadelphia's approach to arguments / discussion quite awhile ago, and it was something like 6 standard replies."
Yup, and it happened about ten months ago. You can find an enumeration of his standard responses beginning here. It's a classic thread.
He hasn't changed a bit, has he?
Sad. It was only four responses. And here I was thinking he at least had more options than a cheap coffee maker.
Would it be wrong to say that someone needs to fetch the coffee, even during a recession?
Yes, I think it would be wrong to say it.
These are our future leaders, same as the current leaders, oh Lord, we're f@$%*d!!!
"It was only four responses."
Nope. It was five.
You didn't read the whole thread, did you? What a shame. You missed the best parts.
Oops.
I read it again. There are six, not five, and not four.
Mea maxima culpa.
Not to diss DJ and U-J, but I still think LabRat's description of his "debating style" takes the prize:
"Hey look a pony!"
I'll be chuckling about that one for YEARS.
GOF:
Well, I certainly don't feel slighted coming in after LabRat.
Hell, I made that entire rant a QotD!
Yup. No contest.
"You didn't read the whole thread, did you?"
Nope. I pulled a Mark there - just glanced down to the original list. It's not the first time I've referred to that post and missed out on crucial details.
Granted, I've yet to try and use a source to prove a point without reading it, only to have it turn out that the source in question actually counters my argument. Once I reach the honor of achieving THAT particular fuck-up, I may have to hide under my bed for a week or two.
Hell, I made that entire rant a QotD!
I know. I think eventually it should end up in the left sidebar. That one has earned its immortality.
BTW, I think maybe Marky's staying away and doing his healthcare rant over on his site so he'll get the hits.
He's figured out that me miss him after a while and will go over there just to throw tomatoes and such.
GOF:
Well, I'm not that stupid. :)
Mark wants to play, he can play somewhere honest.
He just knows how badly his ill-thought out rhetoric would get shredded (mostly with His Obama's words) and so he'll sneer from afar.
He can't win this honestly, and he knows it.
Perhaps he's just tired of being a whetstone.
You know what's sad... Some skater losers showed up to abuse a 4-year-old-post over at pdb's...
And the one who stuck around is a better opponent than Mark.
A Skater!
The printed form has two extra commas? That sentence should read "defendant(s), such as breach of contract or negligence.]:"
Oops, make that three extra commas. The one between abandonment and including is completely unnecessary
Great Post. I blogged on this the other day and would have loved to have seen this before hand.
I write a blog on Personal Responsibility focusing on self defense but covering other things as well. I invite you to check it out. http://www.arizonashooter.blogspot.com
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