Monday, February 8, 2010

Brain Stems, or B.S. with a Degree

I am in amasement with people who have College Degrees. Bachelors... Masters... all kinds.

I am astonished how some of these people seem to have been down some lofty path of Educational enlightenment, but establish themselves in the workplace as a "Brain Stem", with no fucking common sense.

I have considered writing a book with my 13 years of working for this big company I work for.

A big company that now requires any salary position to beholden to a Bachelors Degree or greater.

No internal promotions from within... if you dont have a degree.
Gone is the employee loyality... with no offer of those who wish to continue the "career chain"with a company who gives no credit for current job experience.
The employee is not considered "Loyal"... it is now a struggle... a job... not a career...
The employer has turned into a "Brain Stem"... answering to those at the TOP... no longer seeing the obvious of severing the employee/employer relationship... UNLESS... I go get a Degree?

A degree that I can get for $1000 at any internet site. does the make me $mart?

People spend 10's of thousands of Dollars to get this degree... and you can fool me for the lack of common sense these "brain stems" have.

Every week, I deal with people who talk so "high level" that they cannot understand the common sense answer.

They fail to grasp the obvious... in the workplace or out of it... i.e.
The fucking computer is infected with a virus.
All spots are taken.
The pipes are frozen.
You don't have a reservation.
No substitutions.
I'm on my lunch break.


Why do I have to go through a 10 minute dissertation of what is wrong... what's going to happen... how will it affect me... and the best Question... Why did This Happen?

Even when I give them the dissertation of what went wrong, they have the nerve to say.

"I know... so why does it keep happening?"

Umm.. surfing for Porn, and you can''t squelch it.
Your late for your meeting...again... that's why all spots are taken
Your pipes froze because it's cold outside.
You don't have reservation because you didnt make it. (bullshitter)
No substitutions mean no substitutions.
Your problem can't wait until I'm back from lunch. (workaholic)

...and we cannot forget... when something is broke at work... sometimes....

The other person below you in the corporate food chain is not doing their job.
The person not doing their job is the person your psychologically abusing/fucking with.
The person responsible for this problem is on a 2 week vacation... that some manager approved.
You micromanage to the extent that your staff goes mindless

I can't report you for having a brain stem for a mind, because the buck stops with you in this depearment.
If I went above you, I'd get fired, so the problem still exists.... even at the top... the top didn't start the business, they inherited this.

These same degreed managers couldn't fix what was broken anyway... You got this job because of your Degree... not because of your job knowledge.


This happens not just with the world of Computing and I.T. , but also in the world of politics, retail, medicine, camping, driving, religion, etc.etc.

Just because you have a Degree, doesn't make you a smarter person, or makes you above the rest.

Lets look at the Colleges that teach them....
You sit through classes... being taught by a "Instructor" who wanted to be something in his or her life, and "Failed"... and they have no choice but to teach, and pass on all those failed beliefs and core values to... you... the noble grasshopper... hoping to change the world and make a career.

Have you ever thought of the instructor and where their head is?
Did you know the instructor is an Alcoholic? ...(I know one)...
Maybe a Religious fanatic? ... that's a no brainer...
Could have a facination with young people?... Can you think of catholic priests that teach? (I can).
Maybe lost their job at the Corporation as a Director and now has to do this?
Heavens!... they wouldn't be working in the corporate secretary pool or a parts driver for NAPA.
they're smarter than that...

I think having a degree makes you a better educated bullshitter!
I believe it gives you the ability to psychologically abuse and push people around!
I believe you are taught this in college.
Why else would there be such abuse? Abuse is statistically perpetrated more by men.
I am starting to believe that as your brain goes through college, it gets so big, it detaches from you and floats in your head...All that's left is your "Brain Stem"... and there you go... you disconnect from all things of common sense.

I don't know of too many "highly educated" people working in the food sevice industry... I.E counter sales... with a degree... that's got to be hard work for them...
They would be asking too many questions... just give them the fucking food you Brain Stem!

I dont have a Degree, but I have experience that your degreed brain stem from college does'nt have.

I can have 15 years of loyalty.
15 years of seeing, learning, fixing, mastering, been there and done that... then along comes some manager who thinks everyone salaried, should NOW have a Degree from some university...

This manager is thinking with their Brain Stem... which is BS for short...