God, you're dumb and you're a WHAT?

[Pengwuino]

Do you ever run into people during your studies or out in life who seem so unbelievably dumb and incompetant... and then you ask them what they do/are majoring in, and its like "Well I'm a doctor" or "I'm a civil engineer" or "I'm supervisor of the nth largest internet backbone"? It's rather scary to think that you may be working in a building where the designer was an alcoholic partier during college and this just might be one of his first designs

The jobs that you go to as a trade school scare me the most... and I'm talking about the people who weren't good enough for a real college... "Oh hey, I install gas lines under your house" or "I maintain 747's for the airliner you're about to hop on to". Kinda makes you wonder...

 

[moose]

"What type of job could an incompetent:person as yourself possibly have?"

"Im the safety technician at the local nuclear reactor"

O_____________________O

*moves far far away*

 

[scorpa]

Do you ever run into people during your studies or out in life who seem so unbelievably dumb and incompetant... and then you ask them what they do/are majoring in, and its like "Well I'm a doctor" or "I'm a civil engineer" or "I'm supervisor of the nth largest internet backbone"? It's rather scary to think that you may be working in a building where the designer was an alcoholic partier during college and this just might be one of his first designs
The jobs that you go to as a trade school scare me the most... and I'm talking about the people who weren't good enough for a real college... "Oh hey, I install gas lines under your house" or "I maintain 747's for the airliner you're about to hop on to". Kinda makes you wonder...

Yeah that has definitely happened to me. It scares me when I think about how many idiots seem to be in engineering, or medicine or anything where there is any responsibility. Some people just aren't meant for that, I don't know how they make it through.

Oh, and I hope you weren't implying that only dumb people go to trade schools. Trades are a valuable part of society, just as much as any university degree. I apologize if you don't think that, I just hate it when people think they are better because they have a university degree, and that everything else is secondary to that.

 

[Pengwuino]

Oh, and I hope you weren't implying that only dumb people go to trade schools. Trades are a valuable part of society, just as much as any university degree. I apologize if you don't think that, I just hate it when people think they are better because they have a university degree, and that everything else is secondary to that.

Oh of course not, hell some of the stuff they do is actually very interesting to me. Unfortunately, their near non-existant requirements and low-cost and flashy ad campaigns tend to draw the dumber crowds...

 

[scorpa]

Oh of course not, hell some of the stuff they do is actually very interesting to me. Unfortunately, their near non-existant requirements and low-cost and flashy ad campaigns tend to draw the dumber crowds...

Ok just making sure

 

[scott1]

"What type of job could an incompetent:person as yourself possibly have?"

"Im the safety technician at the local nuclear reactor"

O_____________________O

*moves far far away*

That reminds me of Homer form the simpsons

 

[hypatia]

Are we talking about the guy I went to high school with, that did LSD everyday for 3 years? And at our class reunion I found out he was a Nuro-surgeon? Yea I'd want him working on my brain! Hes in SoCal BTW.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Oh of course not, hell some of the stuff they do is actually very interesting to me. Unfortunately, their near non-existant requirements and low-cost and flashy ad campaigns tend to draw the dumber crowds...

While the trade schools may draw "dumber" people, they still have to pass the courses which weeds the worst ones out, and they don't last in the trades very long if they're incompetent. Electricians, pipefitters, sheetrock guys, garage door installers, etc, all end up getting a huge amount of experience in their jobs and end up being able to do most of it in their sleep. The outfits they work for feed greater responsibility to them in small increments, and if they can't handle safety and proper proceedures, they get stuck in positions where they're always supervised and never make any important decisions. I am much, much less worried about the work done by people in the trades than I am by dumb doctors or engineers or computer programmers.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Are we talking about the guy I went to high school with, that did LSD everyday for 3 years? And at our class reunion I found out he was a Nuro-surgeon? Yea I'd want him working on my brain! Hes in SoCal BTW.

That is somewhat scary.

 

[Evo]

Are we talking about the guy I went to high school with, that did LSD everyday for 3 years? And at our class reunion I found out he was a Nuro-surgeon? Yea I'd want him working on my brain! Hes in SoCal BTW.

Ack. You wonder how this happens.

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These are Google ads, click at your own risk.

 

[Pengwuino]

I can't believe it Evo...

"I want to thank you for providing me with this impressive MBA degree and transcripts. This is an ideal way to acknowledge ones life experience and professional status. I highly recommend instantdegrees to anyone who has many years of work experience but lacks a traditional college degree. I now have clout and I'm ready to apply for senior management positions within
my company. Thank you very much."

 

[JamesU]

I'll graduate college tomorrow... :zzz:

 

[Pengwuino]

"I have never been offered as many loans by my bank as I have since beginning to use my Doctoral Title"

My god...

 

[Evo]

I can't believe it Evo...

Well, I'm also getting a PHD in experimental Physics so I can help out in the upper physics forums. Maybe next month I'll add a few more PHD's, any suggestions?

 

[JamesU]

"I use my Degree ( a Doctorate) as a dating ploy. I had good quality calling cards professionally printed and I always present them on being introduced to anyone. Often, I simply introduce myself to a lady I find attractive and offer the card saying that I would like to meet her for dinner at some future date, if she is amenable. More often than not, I receive a call."

And you can see how these people deserve to be doctors

 

[Evo]

And you can see how these people deserve to be doctors

Yomamma, you smooth devil, you can pretend to be a 13 year old prodigy.

 

[JamesU]

Thx evo

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[Evo]

was that a compliment?

Yes, of course.

 

[Pengwuino]

Yah I think I am going to get a quadruple doctorate. Physics, Math, History... maybe a little Mechanical Engineering..

 

[Tide]

Well, that's at least as much training that Presidents get to qualify for having their finger on the nuke trigger ...! ;)

 

[Math Is Hard]

Ack. You wonder how this happens.
Maybe like this!
GET YOUR LEGAL COLLEGE DEGREE IN 5 DAYS!
Have you ever thought that the only thing stopping you from a great job and better pay was a few letters behind your name? Well now you can get them instantly and legally!
BA BSc BCom MA MBA PhD Degrees!
100% Approval! No Coursework! 100% Legal!
I think I will be a neuro surgeon next week.
http://theshopontop.com/collegedegreesnow/
These are Google ads, click at your own risk.

Evo,

Please do not make light of my dear alma mater.

Respectfully,

Dr. MIH

 

[Evo]

Evo,
Please do not make light of my dear alma mater.
Respectfully,
Dr. MIH

MUMs the word MIH. A fine school it is! I will be graduating with honors next Thursday,

 

[Math Is Hard]

Wonderful news, Dr. Evo! I'll see you at our reunion in the Virgin Islands.

Meanwhile, who's up for some elective cardiac or neurosurgery? I'm ready to get this show on the road!

 

[Pyrrhus]

I can't believe this! : , and here i am with 2 years and some months in college studying and 2 more years to graduate... I could have gotten my degree in 5 DAYS!

 

[Pengwuino]

Meanwhile, who's up for some elective cardiac or neurosurgery? I'm ready to get this show on the road!

I am! I need this brain transplanted into my head...

 

[russ_watters]

Honest to God, I knew someone at the Naval Academy who asked - "but if ships are made of metal, how do they float??"

 

[Gale]

Honest to God, I knew someone at the Naval Academy who asked - "but if ships are made of metal, how do they float??"

well it IS pretty hard to explain it to anyone without getting into talk about magic water elves that swim under boats to hold them up in the water, because then everyone wants to know how the US governemnt got those elves to work for us, and then labor laws come up, and then PETA gets involved and then issues about black market elf sales and all of that... so schools have started making up this "bouyancy" stuff that's taught just before an exam so it never properly gets covered, and everyone forgets quickly, and so the mass population can remain blissfully ignorant. unfortunately, you're friend was a clever one, and still managed to ponder the ellusive question of floating metal.

 

[daveb]

I used to work ina clinical laboratry, and had medical doctors call and ask how to test for immunity (to some pathogen).

 

[tribdog]

We hired this one guy and on the first day we went to a new job. We were at the job site and looking at a big set of plans for a new 5 mile stretch of road. We looked at page after page of this road and drove up and down this 5 mile stretch checking things out. While we were driving we found out that the new guy has a degree in mechanical engineering. towards the end of the day this guy asks "So what are we building, a hospital?"

 

[ShawnD]

In my microbiology lab, the instructor was saying that they previously used metal wires to put bacteria samples onto the microscope plates, and the wire is sterilized using fire, but now they use throwaway plastic sticks. One student asks "so do we sterilize the plastic stick in the bunsen burner too?"
Just think about what you're asking... putting plastic into a 2000 degree flame.

In the environmental laboratory, one student was trying to argue that a cubic meter and a litre were the same thing. As you should know, a cubic meter is actually 1000 litres, but we could not convince her otherwise.

I should mention that these are students in the final semester of chemistry. After this semester, they'll be real chemistry employees doing real tests like sampling the water you drink and the air you breathe. I find that scary.

 

[rachmaninoff]

No phone number, business address? Nice, profitable document-forgery scheme they have going there.

Interesting story here; one of these 'institutions' gave an MBA to a cat:

http://www.turnto10.com/news/3976875/detail.html

 

[ShawnD]

MIH should use that cat picture as her new avatar.

 

[rachmaninoff]

A senior Homeland Security director was brought down in '03, her 'doctorate' being from an fradulent online college:

http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/20849-1.html

 

[Gokul43201]

A : God, you're dumb... and you're a WHAT?

B : I'm a politician. They call me Mr. President !

 

[Moonbear]

well it IS pretty hard to explain it to anyone without getting into talk about magic water elves that swim under boats to hold them up in the water, because then everyone wants to know how the US governemnt got those elves to work for us, and then labor laws come up, and then PETA gets involved and then issues about black market elf sales and all of that... so schools have started making up this "bouyancy" stuff that's taught just before an exam so it never properly gets covered, and everyone forgets quickly, and so the mass population can remain blissfully ignorant. unfortunately, you're friend was a clever one, and still managed to ponder the ellusive question of floating metal.

You must have graduated from one of the more prestigious 5-day programs to know so much!

I should mention that these are students in the final semester of chemistry. After this semester, they'll be real chemistry employees doing real tests like sampling the water you drink and the air you breathe. I find that scary.

Or they go on to med school. The more med students I teach, the more afraid I am to go to a doctor. Sure, there are plenty of good students, but then you run into the few who just leave you wondering how they got into med school and why they are still there. One can only hope they won't pass their boards so can't actually practice medicine.