Unwanted in the Business World

Apparently, reality does bite. The people who are in charge of hiring for corporations have discovered that today’s college graduates are basically useless in the business world. Whatever they were studying, they did not learn any useful skills. Worse yet, they lack the kind of executive skills needed to function on the job. They think that work is a four letter word. See this, from The College Fix.

So, reality has caught up to the American university system. Students are taught to be woke. They are told to ignore the wisdom of the past. They learn to be self-indulgent narcissists, drowning in their sorrow over how oppressed they are.

They might not all be out on the streets fighting against the Gestapo, that is, against government law enforcement agents. But many of them are. And those who are not certainly sympathize with those who do.

In the meantime, the word is out. Today’s young people are simply not worth the trouble. They expect to be coddled and swaddled. They have no work ethic. They complain and whine about whatever. They are quick to take offense. They feel entitled and do not respond to feedback. That is, they cannot tolerate being told that they can improve.

As the old saying goes, they are thin skinned. It counts as a form of depression. 

More importantly, this generation as a whole never learned to work. They were granted awards and prizes simply for showing up. They did not learn that hard work is required to excel at competition. They are so thoroughly involved with their own self-interest that they ignore the best interest of their companies. Many companies have decided that they are not worth the trouble.

It is a sad state of affairs. If you ask yourself why so many young people are drawn to the madness of Antifa and are more than happy to go out on the street to cause trouble, the answer is easy. It is all they know how to do.

They have been taught to live for the psychodrama, not for the hard work and achievement.

If they did not learn adult behavior in school and even at home, they will go out in the world to act like overgrown children. In some ways it must be worse in elite institutions, like the Ivy League. These schools have long since abandoned their mission to educate in favor of an effort to indoctrinate in woke ideology.

Worse yet, diversity quotas have helped fill classes with students who could not do the work. As noted some time ago, when affirmative action became the order of the day many students who could not do the work often resorted to plagiarism. When professors saw what was going on they were told by their deans that it was  best to give everyone an A, regardless of the plagiarism. Otherwise, they would be threatened with a charge of racism.

So, why would you work to get a good grade, or to hand your assignments in on time, when you know that certain members of your class were plagiarizing their work and getting excellent grades.

Thanks to DEI college became an exercise in what you could get away with. Merit was tossed aside, with the exception given for STEM subjects, most of whose students were from outside the country.

Since students are taught that hard work does not matter, they end up believing in socialism. That is, they believe that the government and businesses should take care of them. If someone is going to provide for your needs, regardless of the work you put into any activity, you are going to vote for socialists. You are going to disdain the free market and its competitive ethos.