Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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What the fuck is even the point of going to college if you don't want to learn?
A lot of people go to college specifically to get a decent job later on. Companies requiring college degrees for work that really shouldn't are to blame, mostly.
Social network tradition.
They say frats do their hazing as a way of extortion.
Degrees look impressive
Not being incompetent is more impressive!
Doesn't pay the bills, though.
To get the degree. Because more and more companies won't even interview you if you don't have a degree, regardless of how much experience you have.
My friend has 23 years of experience in a career. Won industry awards. His job moved their offices to another state, he stayed. Even though he had contacts in the industry who wanted to hire him, once it was found out he didn't have a degree, their HR depts wouldn't let his contacts even interview him.
One person was a VP. A freakin' VP of operations wasn't allowed to hire him, because HR had a "No degree, then no chance" policy. She even advised him to go to WGU, and try to get one within 6 months, because that was as long as she could hold the job open for him.
The reason he never went earlier is because he was a single parent, and already was working in the industry. So he mistakenly thought that his experience would outweigh any degree. That used to be true, but not now.
If everyone in college and university is getting easy degrees with AI and similar, why not just bypass the process and give everyone a Phd?
You get a Phd, OP.
I get a Phd.
Everyone on Lemmy gets a Phd.
We all get Phds!
Yaay!!
I gpt a phd, a pretty huge dick
/s