EE Chats January 2012

2012-01-02 10:02:09

#201

Trotskygrad: бля; +354|6386|Vortex Ring State

Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Trotskygrad wrote:
Hurricane2k9 wrote:

i'm glad i live here then.
> implying it makes a difference
> implying that you are wrong
>implying business majors don't have some of the best starting salaries and job placement prospects, really only bested by engineering and certain sciences

e: zeek I'm not questioning the value of that sort of education

inb4 jay and rdx

business majors have good employment prospects because everyone needs someone to manage the masses.

2012-01-02 10:07:21

#202

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5745|London, England

people can major in whatever they want. not everyone has the same life goals. if your goal is to accumulate money then business is probably better than most.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-01-02 10:08:14

#203

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

rappers make fat stacks of chedda

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:11:09

#204

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6858

Trotskygrad wrote:
Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Trotskygrad wrote:

> implying it makes a difference
> implying that you are wrong
>implying business majors don't have some of the best starting salaries and job placement prospects, really only bested by engineering and certain sciences

e: zeek I'm not questioning the value of that sort of education
inb4 jay and rdx

business majors have good employment prospects because everyone needs someone to manage the masses.

lol at conflating some business major management student with the ideological stance of "managing the masses". rofl. you come across as a king douche when you say things like that. if you think the ideological or sociological role of business major students is 'managing the masses' then you're even more of a fucking buffoon then i previously thought. the only type of person 'managing' that business studies produces is this:

https://nelswadycki.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/office-space.jpg

and hurri if you think 'starting salary' is a statistic that means all that much then you clearly have some serious life priority issues. starting salaries are rarely indicative of lifetime earning potential - only in the serious high professions are they a lasting indicator - and, besides, a graduate-level salary is still a graduate level salary. you really care about making money all that much? good for you, i guess. i find it vulgar.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2012-01-02 10:12:18

#205

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

I agree

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:13:27

#206

gurdeep: +812|5142|prolly

hooah

2012-01-02 10:14:08

#207

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

peckerwood

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2012-01-02 10:16:09

#208

gurdeep: +812|5142|prolly

dat safety

2012-01-02 10:17:11

#209

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

been watching sons of anarchy lately

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:19:35

#210

gurdeep: +812|5142|prolly

fwp

2012-01-02 10:19:57

#211

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

way waaaaaaaaay better than the wire

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:20:21

#212

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

like 12 times better

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:21:22

#213

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6858

this is the only course that can credibly claim to produce graduates geared to "manage the masses", i.e. high-ranking public officials, politicians, policy-makers, movers-and-shakers. and even then it is a spurious claim and many people openly criticize the value and role of such a course (i.e. it often tending towards creating a certain 'type' of leader that serves an ideological/dogmatic basis).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy … _economics

and trust me, even the under/grads i know for that are far from intellectual powerhouses.

and this is all tangential because business studies is a loooong fucking way in the pecking order from something like ppe, which admits and graduates only the most exceptional, elitist echelons of society, e.g. public schoolboys and toffs, oligarchs, international royalty, etc.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2012-01-02 10:27:19

#214

gurdeep: +812|5142|prolly

eleven bravo wrote:
like 12 times better

k

2012-01-02 10:27:36

#215

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5745|London, England

dunno why his choice of major bothers you so much.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-01-02 10:36:24

#216

Toilet Sex: one love, one pig; +1,775|6959

eleven bravo wrote:
rappers make fat stacks of chedda

♥

2012-01-02 10:51:38

#217

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5646|foggy bottom

bout to fuck some shit up in skyrim

Tu Stultus Es

2012-01-02 10:57:25

#218

Hurricane2k9: Pendulous Sweaty Balls; +1,538|6089|College Park, MD

@Uzique I actually don't care about making money all that much. I'm taking it because of the job prospects (one potentially ideal place would be the FBI. they like MIS and accounting majors, and they don't pay that well compared to the private sector) and because I do enjoy a lot of the subjects.

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/36793/marylandsig.jpg

2012-01-02 11:05:53

#219

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6858

Jay wrote:
dunno why his choice of major bothers you so much.

it doesn't bother me, he was just going on about starting salary and how business studies majors get gz'd with all the jobs... when both of those statements are fallacious.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2012-01-02 11:08:26

#220

Hurricane2k9: Pendulous Sweaty Balls; +1,538|6089|College Park, MD

i don't get how anyone thought these were a good idea:

https://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n304/chesterb237/hitclips.jpg

man that takes me back

2012-01-02 11:12:06

#221

War Man: Australians are hermaphrodites.; +564|7101|Purplicious Wisconsin

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
We need a vote on best EE chats ever.

Also need to guess which EE Chats this year will have the lowest amount of posts, I have a feeling December will get the most votes.

The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.

2012-01-02 11:14:52

#222

rdx-fx: ...; +955|6978

Managers are useful, so far as they know what their function is;
Sign timecards,
schedule the right people for the right projects,
babysit the problem workers,
and keep the engineers from blowing the annual budget on building doomsday devices while nobody is looking.

2012-01-02 11:15:20

#223

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5745|London, England

Uzique wrote:
Jay wrote:
dunno why his choice of major bothers you so much.
it doesn't bother me, he was just going on about starting salary and how business studies majors get gz'd with all the jobs... when both of those statements are fallacious.

He's not wrong though. The average starting salary for his particular degree (MIS) is very good.

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/51395/Screen%20Shot%202012-01-02%20at%202.09.36%20PM.png

And considering the fact that he said he missed a perfect GPA by one test question this semester, I'd say he's doing pretty well at it. I agree that pursuing money for moneys sake isn't very enjoyable, but if it's not a major factor in your decision making process then you either have a pretty sick trust fund or you're an idiot.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-01-02 11:18:07

#224

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6858

starting salary doesn't mean anything over here, cause for a start the graduate jobs market is undergoing a major structural shift (from salaried jobs to short-term temp contracts), and because it is hardly ever indicative of lifetime-earning potential. the well paying professions over here involve networking and social opportunism as much as a handy vocational college degree. high-paying employers want academic excellence (of the traditional kind) to rope you in in the first place (i.e. business studies and other pleb vocational degrees are frowned upon), and then after that it's as much about nepotism and attending the right wine parties as it is about statistical certainty. 'starting salary' is a stat thrown around a lot by vocational college departments to try and attract fee-paying undergrads.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2012-01-02 11:18:55

#225

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5745|London, England

That's nice, but hurricane is American.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

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