I came across an opinion recently by an American Politician http://whereistand.com/MarkWarner/24751 who feels that as long as their is discrimination Affirmative Action is necessary.
Personally, I can't make sense of this at all. I mean, I think we've come along far enough to be able to judge a person on their own merit, and ability. Affirmative action to me is the ultimate form of discrimination. Any institution that has a policy to allow a certain number of people based on their ethnicity or race, or whatever is discriminating towards the people who actually deserve acceptance.
I can't tell you how many friends and family members I have that did not get into their college of choice from high school, but the African American or Latino student who had a lower GPA and was ranked lower than them in the class got in. I truly believe that people of all countries have their advantages and disadvantages, and the difference between successful people and those who aren't is their will to become succesfull. I went to class with a brilliant girl who was African American and got a scholarship to MIT. She was smart, and determined. It had nothing to do with the color of her skin, but more to do with how bad she wanted it.
As a college institution your job is to place the most deserving people into your lecture halls. Not to make sure that at least 20% of the lecture hall is African American (or any race). For an institution to support Affirmative Action is to say that it is discriminant. Not towards any specific race, but to the people who are most deserving of acceptance according to their objective criteria. I just don't understand how a university can say that a person will need at least XXXX on the SATs, and a 3.8 GPA, and all these other criteria, and when a person meets those criteria if too many others from their race or ethnicity have been admitted, well then they are out of luck. If you want to stop discrimination you've got to look beyond someone's skin color, beyond where they come from, and see who they really are. Put it this way, if I need a doctor and my life is on the line, that doctor better be the best damn doctor for the job at hand, I don't care if its a guy or girl, black, white, brown, or green, nor do I care about their religion. The same way, if your a medical school or a law school, you should want the very best doctors and lawyers graduating from your institution regardless of anything else.
Its just that idiots and geniuses come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. In the global world we live in, for us to still discriminate on anything more than talent, to me is just sad. We live in a world where Indians dance like Michael Jackson, and Europeans are getting better at basketball. We're all just full of interests and potential, and for institutions to not acknowledge that is pretty sad regardless of what they are established for.
Friday, June 6, 2008
CheapO's
I understand that times are tough but I'm starting to notice more and more the existence of "CheapOs". CheapOs are the worst type of people to be hanging out with in a leisurely setting. I don't care what you tell me a CheapO will always be cheap regardless of the economy. I can't take it anymore!
For example, a typical CheapO would join you and your buddies for dinner and drinks, and then when the bill came they'd complain "Well....I only had 4 tortilla chips and 2 mozarella sticks, so I don't think I should have to pay the same amount as everyone else". Let me tell you something....You damn well better pay the same as everyone else! In fact you should pick up the whole tab for being a hindrance to society and a mood-killer amongst your friends! I don't understand it.
I'm not saying I'm made of money or anything, but what I am saying is that if your gonna go out and do this kind of crap, then just don't go out at all. Recently a friend of mine organized a bachelor party for his cousin. He told me how there was about 10 guys and they decided to do bottle service at a club. Of course being a guy, its always better to be drinking with girls instead of your friends inside a club (no matter how good of a friend they are). So my buddy being the guy that he is, invites 10 girls back to their VIP section to join them for drinks. At the end of the night it was all put on one persons credit card. The next day the CheapOs start complaining that well we didn't invite the girls up and they drank some of the alcohol so they shouldn't have to pay the full $70 per head that it came out to.
Are you freakin kidding me! Hey dirt bag, why don't you take that lipstick you got on your collar to a pawn shop and see if they'll give you $70 for it. All I'm saying, is that if you can't put a price on a night out with friends. You cannot tell who had more fun and who didn't. So to try to charge the person who had more fun is just stupid. Why would you do this?
For example, a typical CheapO would join you and your buddies for dinner and drinks, and then when the bill came they'd complain "Well....I only had 4 tortilla chips and 2 mozarella sticks, so I don't think I should have to pay the same amount as everyone else". Let me tell you something....You damn well better pay the same as everyone else! In fact you should pick up the whole tab for being a hindrance to society and a mood-killer amongst your friends! I don't understand it.
I'm not saying I'm made of money or anything, but what I am saying is that if your gonna go out and do this kind of crap, then just don't go out at all. Recently a friend of mine organized a bachelor party for his cousin. He told me how there was about 10 guys and they decided to do bottle service at a club. Of course being a guy, its always better to be drinking with girls instead of your friends inside a club (no matter how good of a friend they are). So my buddy being the guy that he is, invites 10 girls back to their VIP section to join them for drinks. At the end of the night it was all put on one persons credit card. The next day the CheapOs start complaining that well we didn't invite the girls up and they drank some of the alcohol so they shouldn't have to pay the full $70 per head that it came out to.
Are you freakin kidding me! Hey dirt bag, why don't you take that lipstick you got on your collar to a pawn shop and see if they'll give you $70 for it. All I'm saying, is that if you can't put a price on a night out with friends. You cannot tell who had more fun and who didn't. So to try to charge the person who had more fun is just stupid. Why would you do this?
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Married + kids = Stable Career Guy
We live in an increasingly complex world where the one thing that people look for is stability. This is true especially for employers. They wanna make sure the person they hired isn't gonna show up to work drunk, and grab the receptionist's ass on his way to the coffee machine. So they look at one's history, and do a background check, and go through all these hoops and hurdles to make sure the person is "stable". However, I find more and more that in the business world nothing yells out stability like a marriage with children. If your married, and have children it some how means that you are a stand-up guy, and you are grounded and have an even keel.
Ironically, I think this is a fucking joke! Some of the biggest degenerates I know are married with kids. Albeit, they are in positions of management when it comes to their careers, however if you ask them they will also admit that for some reason a marriage shows stability. This absolutely cracks me up, because these are the same jerks that are cock-blocking my unmarried ass from the cute blonde at the end of the bar during happy hour. I just don't get it. In today's day and age, I don't understand how employers still associate marriages with stability.
I mean if I ever owned a company and I saw someone with a marriage, just knowing some of the married people I know I'd see it is a liability. I'd think to myself "how long can this cock-sucker get away with this before the wife leaves with half, and he asks me for a raise so he can afford the child support?" I know its just me. Maybe I'm crazy for thinking that someone who takes their time and gets married later in life, but isn't at risk of messing it up because their happier with their marriage is more stable than the newly married 28 yr old whose got the libido of Ron Jeremy.
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't apply to everybody. Just 95% of the married management workforce. Oh well, you live and you learn I guess. I mean if you think about it really the married people that do fuck around probably wouldn't be so "stable" if they didn't.
Ironically, I think this is a fucking joke! Some of the biggest degenerates I know are married with kids. Albeit, they are in positions of management when it comes to their careers, however if you ask them they will also admit that for some reason a marriage shows stability. This absolutely cracks me up, because these are the same jerks that are cock-blocking my unmarried ass from the cute blonde at the end of the bar during happy hour. I just don't get it. In today's day and age, I don't understand how employers still associate marriages with stability.
I mean if I ever owned a company and I saw someone with a marriage, just knowing some of the married people I know I'd see it is a liability. I'd think to myself "how long can this cock-sucker get away with this before the wife leaves with half, and he asks me for a raise so he can afford the child support?" I know its just me. Maybe I'm crazy for thinking that someone who takes their time and gets married later in life, but isn't at risk of messing it up because their happier with their marriage is more stable than the newly married 28 yr old whose got the libido of Ron Jeremy.
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't apply to everybody. Just 95% of the married management workforce. Oh well, you live and you learn I guess. I mean if you think about it really the married people that do fuck around probably wouldn't be so "stable" if they didn't.
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