We are on a path that disenfranchises the Common man, the backbone, the soul, the very bulk [bulwark!] of the economy."
Simply put, exactly so. THE COMMON MAN WHO WANTS TO WORK WITH HIS HANDS. And God bless 'em.
But what do I know, I'm a college-educated douchebag lol...
No offense. LoL
I was painting with a broad brush.
But actually I was referring to non degreed people that can run rings around the college degreed guy, but who are pushed out or denied advancement because they dont have that piece of paper.
Idiots in HR look at resumes for a cheese factory and they give the guy with a degree who mentions that he likes CHEESE consideration over the non degreed master cheese maker who lists Camembert/Brie and Blue as well as Chèvre, Feta and Ricotta on his resume. (they didnt see the word CHEESE)
I see this sort of thing all time.
I see managers who want to get rid of their best and brightest because they are non degreed and they want to list degreed people in the bids.
They will dump a self made process engineer with 30 years experience for a greenhorn QA guy with a degree.
Poor performance and chaos and lot’s of meetings trying to explain it all, generally results.
I have seen managers who were in a bind with backlog, demand DAILY TWO Hour Meetings trying to figure out why backlog is not being reduced.
And when I told them that they were wasting 10 man hours per person weekly on their fruitless meetings taking them away from actually working on the backlog, they would just look down their noses at me with disdain because I am non degreed.