Re: advice to graduating college seniors
Re: advice to graduating college seniors
Source: http://sci.tech−archive.net/Archive/sci.econ/2009−06/msg00011.html
• From: phil scott
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:48:39 −0700 (PDT) On May 29, 2:18 pm, AZDuffman wrote: Sorry for the off−topic. Fromwww.azduffman.com Congratulations Graduating College Seniors Some of you are now or have just graduated college and congratulations to you. Below is my commencement address and advice: You all have made it all the way! This is something to be proud of indeed. Now, maybe you are expecting "some dude to rush up and offer you a job!" Unlikely to happen, but you will soon enter the workforce. Welcome to the real world−−next exit 40 years. But seriously, I have been where you are and I have hired people like you before. So instead of a pep talk, I will give you the most direct 10 career points no one else will dare give, 1. I'm your new boss and have been at my company for some time now, maybe 10 years or more. I have more years experience than you have months. I'm not interested in your ideas on how the operation should be run. We survived before you and we most likely will be here after you. You will be given a job to do and I expect it to be done. It will probably be unsexy, repetitive, and boring. I still need it done. Do it right and I may ask you for suggestions, that is the time to say. Don't be offended if I do not use your ideas. 2. I'm your boss. B−O−S−S. I am not one of your college professors. When we have a meeting I am not looking for you to challenge my ideas. Unless I say it is a brainstorming session, the purpose of the meeting is for you to listen to how I want things done. 3. This is a job, not college. Attendance is mandatory. You do not get "3 cuts" before you get your grade lowered. You want to party on a Wednesday night I damn well expect you in the office at 100% on Thursday morning. 4. You don't yet even know what you don't know. Your degree here just proves you are able to learn and will stick to something. Learning my business might mean working at a dirty, stinky job in a uniform. I Re: advice to graduating college seniors 1
Re: advice to graduating college seniors expect you to do that. 5. Your classes might have mentioned all these wonderful things companies offer like "flex time" and "telecommuting." You will not be doing that. Most jobs do not work with telecommuting and the people that get that privilege have been with me for years. Flex time must still be worked around the needs of the business. 6. It is going to be a year before you get to take a week's vacation. When that does happen don't expect Christmas week and don't expect the day after Thanksgiving off, either. My senior employees have that off. You might even be given a calendar of just the weeks available and asked what you prefer. 7. If you are very lucky you might be getting a company car. Expect a Ford or Chevy and expect it to be very plain, possibly used. Senior execs get the Cadillacs, Audis and BMWs. You are not a senior exec. 8. Sooner or later you will meet my boss. If you want an easier job, keep my boss off my back. When you talk with my boss, keep it light. Let him ask the questions. Talk about sports, the weather, whatever but DO NOT APPEAL MY DECISIONS TO MY BOSS−EVER! There is a chain of command and when you break it, it causes all kinds of issues. 9. I don't care about your self−esteem. I don't have time for giving you constant feedback. I care only that you provide me and my department more in output than you are being paid. You graduated college, you are smart enough to know when you are not pulling the cart but rather riding in it. 10. You have your degree, but see that guy over there? He is not interested in getting my job, but he knows his up and down. People in the plant look to him for leadership. He has been doing his job longer than you have been alive, sport. Want to lose his and every body's respect in an instant?! Just go over there and explain how he is doing it all wrong. Well, class, that is all I have time for. Work just keeps one so busy, but you will see what I mean in no time. God Bless America!
on US soil a person has US civil and criminal rights and access to our court system of juris prudence. off shore they do not. US courts require 100% of a jury to convict.. thats law to protect the *citizens....one guy not so sure and the enemy combattant goes free. Too risky in the case of 'terrorists'... similar to running all deaths in a war through a jury trial to see which were warranted Re: advice to graduating college seniors 2
Re: advice to graduating college seniors killings and which could have been avoided.... wont work with war. In war all kinds of innocents are slaughered, and man turns to his animal instincts. war is not a pretty business... having said that, there are such as war crimes. Internatonal courts try those. It is not appropriat for a single nation, say a victim nation to try those it accuses of war crimes...those should be internatinal tribunals.
would 'the terrorists' survive an internatonal war crimes trial? Many could survive that.. they were in fact defending their national ground from invaders. Would Dick Cheeny and others in that group survive an international war crimes trial? Many think they may not.
Phil scott .
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