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Who on earth is letting you manage and hire people? You don't think the overall quality of someone's education has an impact on their performance in a job? If you're talking about senior roles, fine. Entry or lower management roles? Yes, that shit matters. We were hiring entry level folks for the same analyst position for years at a start-up. The role required very little knowledge or experience but involved complex problem solving in a truly chaotic environment that involved 70+ hour weeks for years. The role also required self-management to some degree. We rewarded that with low pay. Oh, and also, the right person would basically learn what MBA schools teach, but like 10 times over and many successful in the role went on to accelerated management or founder careers with success. What we eventually learned was that a few schools, or groups of schools, had exceptionally high failure rates and we chose to just stop hiring from those places out of necessity. LSU, Stanford, and non-Penn Ivy schools were the main ones. LSU because the people we kept getting from there were too stupid to handle the work, simply put. They also were not given the tools in college to understand how to be proactive for their own growth and learning in a business setting. It was unbelievable how consistently bad those employees were. The non-Penn Ivies and Stanford because they were far too entitled and educated in theory versus actual business world understanding. Those folks needed to go into consulting or a Wall Street management program. Once we applied that filter, 1 year retention in role soared. So, yeah, you're absolutely full of shit if you don't think quality of degree earned matters. The best workers who went on to further success were not UT people, btw. We had plenty of UT people do well, but plenty failed out due to the same entitlement shit as the Ivies. The best group, by far, were UH grads. I've seen that playout elsewhere over the years as I've gotten older and hired for various roles or partnered with various people and teams.
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Wife…. People who don’t talk about $ are rich or grew up rich.
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I took American novel before 1920 as an upper division English core curriculum class in the late 80s or early 90s. It was taught by a very masculine lesbian, and while we did read Melville’s Benito Cereno and of course Huck Finn, and I think one Jack London novel, everything else was from female authors like Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett. etc. I never even thought about dropping it, much less complaining to anyone about her choice of representative reading (because I was not a titty baby snowflake, or moron) And it was an awesome class full of books I probably would not have otherwise been exposed to had I had some old white dude loading us up on Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane and William Dean Howells. I probably wouldn’t have read any of those female authors on my own, especially since my only exposure to Wharton was Ethan Frome in high school Oh also, we did read uncle Tom’s cabin, and she had a pretty awesome take on it. I wrote my main paper for the semester on the contrast between Babo and Uncle Tom. so again, fuck that kid, fuck the university president, and fuck the daily texan snowflakes that see any of this as political
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
ChickenSandwich replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Agree to disagree on the cause https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/economy/inflation-larry-summers-biden-fed May 27, 2021 New YorkCNN Business — Larry Summers is urging Washington to tap the brakes on stimulus — or risk unleashing a serious burst of inflation. In December 2020 the inflation rate was 1.4% -
I will continue to do my part and not watch any regular season games, whatsoever.
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2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
Steamboat1874 replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
Peterson Brothers are bas ass. -
Demolition Man defined the cheesy, easy, simple, dumb 90's action flick.
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WOW. I guess it takes a bit of a sociopath to be a sniper though. Not always, but certainly helps. What a psycho.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
SimkinsMan replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
That article does good work on the WHO, WHAT, and WHERE questions of journalism. But it is sorely lacking in the WHY. -
Good heavens. But feels right. That Dodger series what the last (only?) time I enjoyed watching this 2025 team.
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
Eskimohorn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Ravens do things to dictate how the defense plays them. Have a bludgeoning, dynamic, and explosive run game and effectively execute play action and RPOs, and consequently have more explosive plays than anyone else. Maybe Sark is just giving coach speak. I think hes struggling as a playcaller because we’re not really good at anything yet. Seeing San Jose blow up screens and some run game was not pleasing to us fans. -
You can say that again and again and again.
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She was great in X.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
closetojumping replied to bigup2dahorns's topic in Food and Travel
The Piero’s news is completely depressing. -
Viper started following 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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Fuck you all. I tossed Jimmy $50 and I’ll be door-knocking this time next year, just like I did back in ‘18.
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both sides would cash in $$$
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
BurntOrange&White replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
There is a whole bunch of yardage and field between Sarks thought process and the 3 yards and cloud of dust you speak of that is there for the taking against that style of defense. There is a whole bunch of yardage and field between Sarks thought process and the 3 yards and cloud of dust you speak of that is there for the taking against that style of defense. There is a whole bunch of yardage and field between Sarks thought process and the 3 yards and cloud of dust you speak of that is there for the taking against that style of defense. -
Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
texifornia replied to texifornia's topic in Football
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"Hey 911, Please come and help! Armed invaders just broke into my house!" https://www.wesh.com/article/man-called-florida-deputies-for-help-opened-door-was-shot/66029342
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of NMAS replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
If she wasn't such a dumbass, wouldn't that be assault?
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