“There is, however, one determining factor that separates the wheat from the chaff. And that is whether you majored in STEM or the liberal arts.
Now, I know, I know. Some of you have taken offense. Some of you have liberal arts degrees and have “successful careers.” And no doubt I’m sure you know “this one liberal arts grad who was a ‘great’ employee.”
Take your umbrage and shove it. My pocket book and my company are too important to entertain your statistical outliers and anecdotes. The employee talent pool is already poor enough as it is that I’m not going to risk my livelihood and the livelihood of what employees I do have, all in a magnanimous effort to spare the feelings of America’s most educated, yet most worthless labor class.”
BTW, that is an interesting observation that the dictionary site asked the source of the word. It suggests they use their users to scout out new usage. I expect they assemble them and the editors consider the quality of the source (good authors) and the utility of the neologism, to decide whether to add to the dictionary. Language evolves organically, so dictionaries are both descriptive and prescriptive.
You typed your reply on your phone???
Wow – I’m absolutely gob smacked!! on two counts:
First, that you would be tolerant enough to type a message that long into a phone. Personally,if I can’t say it in a dozen words or less, I’ll either use the phone as a phone and actually talk to the person (what a concept), or I’ll wait till I get home to use a full keyboard.
Second, that a lawyer whose time could be worth upwards of $1,000 per hour would waste time putting a smart Alec engineer in his place (since I’m retired, my time is essentially free).
Sorry that I don’t have time for banter – I wasted (according to my wife) too much time watching the Canadian Grand Prix this afternoon (results: 1. Hamilton 2. Bottas 3. Ricciardo), and have to run errands for her now. I’ll leave one more comment: Being relatively unsophisticated, my idea of a good vocabulary is one that can express almost any concept to almost anybody in mostly everyday terms.
Cheers,
I am not exactly sure how much better my life would have turned out had I graduated in STEM, but it turned out pretty darn good majoring in English. It’s kind of funny to hear people railing at strangers when all they really know about the stranger is informed by their own bigotry.
Nobody answered my question, so maybe I need to be more specific to engage the attention of the narrowly educated. How did the “quants” do on Wall Street in the years leading up to the crash, exactly? How did it work out relying so completely on people who could do M-Theory, perhaps, but didn’t have any education in human behavior in any depth?