I hate students

[InverseHellion]

Student: I am SO glad I will NEVER have to work in a place like this! My degree will make sure I NEVER have to work in a bar. I feel sorry for people that have to work here.

Oh yes because we all know that a degree equals a job.</sarcasm> Six years from now I'll be a teacher and I'll have my student teacher experience. Does this mean I'll be able to get a job as a first grade teacher in a local school (my ideal)? Nope not at all. I'm anticipating years of working at those after school tutoring classes (Sylvan Learning, Kumon, Whatever it's called where you're from) and substituting before I can get a nice regular job.

[Kiwi]

All a college degree really means is that you know a lot about a very narrow subject.

That is very very true

I spent 3 hours a day, for 12 weeks of my summer, studying 15th Century Flemish Tapestries

I can tell you ANYTHING you ever need to know about Art or History, but dont ask me to do anything more complicated than simple simple algerbra!

[Pagan]

All a college degree really means is that you know a lot about a very narrow subject. And I say this as a person with a BA in French and a BS in Fashion Merchandising (I guess you could say I have a BS in BS! )

It does not give you common sense. Only life can do that.

Seriously, some of the stupidest, most impressed with themselves people I've run into are college profs. Don't get me started on some of the grants the Biology profs had at NMSU. I seem to remember one about owl spit and another about how many push-ups a male lizard would do to attract a female lizard. Talk about a waste of taxpayers money! On the other hand, the grants down in the Ag College were for things that would actually feed, cloth people, etc.

[Pezzle]

I'm more of a Concept Art sort of person. Full color illustrations, sometimes sequentials, photoshop coloring is my specialty. I usually work entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom tablet. I'm also not bad at vector artwork with Illustrator CS2 but Flash/Animation isn't me. I'm just not an animator.

I can communicate OK with programmers. I used to be an engineering major but some facets of C++ just completely lost me. Art is the only thing I can do tha doesn't make me want to kill myself. The only thing customers don't treat me like shite with.



Just to give you an idea of what I meant Photoshop w/ tablet...case you're wondering what I do that's part of my final project for life drawing. He gave me free reign with imagination and whatnot.

Sorry I get giddy about art.

So about those drunk students..

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"My degree will make sure I NEVER have to work in a bar. I feel sorry for people that have to work here."


Um. Yeah, Hon. People with degrees always get the jobs they want. They never have to pay any kind of dues.

Man. I wish I could be a fly on the wall when her turn comes.

[Pezzle]

How much do you want to bet that kid was an Art or French Literature major or something....

*Coming soon to a Starbucks near YOU!*

I'm an art major. Do not crush my dreams

(I understand the starving thing. I have to do loads of commissions and put together a masssssssive portfolio before I can live off my art alone. HELLO RETAIL FOR ANOTHER 7 YEARS YAY -gunshot-)

[Giggle Goose]

I know the feeling. I feel really embarrassed sometimes that I'm a student and the kids I go to school with act like such self-important schmucks. It's even worse because I go to school in a poorer, rural area of the state, and a lot of people I worked with at this department store last semester thought I would be a snob because I was a college student from an affluent town in Maryland. It's the TOWN that is affluent, not ME. Students like this give students like me a bad name. A lot of them WILL end up working those jobs they thought they wouldn't, because Mom and Dad's money doesn't last forever.

[BdwayBabu799]

While I do support a higher education and don't regret going to school, have to agree with you so much! I know so many intellegent, articulate and awesome people who don't have a college degree and I know some complete asshats with them. It doesn't measure your intellegence in anyway and people who use the fact that they have a degree to treat people badly or feel superior I think are just jerks.

I admit I am one of those people who cannot comprehend directions at all, I have to write detailed instructions on how to get places and I will still get lost! I have my degree in Theatre...and no...you cannot be a movie star with it, it doesn't even get you a role as a tree in a community theatre production. Some of the people from my program are doing really well for themselves. Did they need a degree to tell them they they were good? NO!

However when I worked for the cell phone company and I was speaking with SC who was being really irate and calling me stupid and every name in the book I would mention that I was getting my MBA so couldn't be that bad..but I shouldn't have.

[Boozy]

Me: And can I ask you, do you know ANYTHING about being a good customer?

Fantastic come-back!

Besides - the best managers don't necessarily have a degree in management. They worked their way up from the bottom. That's how you learn what "customer service" is - and isn't.

[air914]

Well my brother has never been an SC - but he's probably been a sucky student at times b/c he's one of those "geniuses" (no really) who ends up usually being smarter than the teacher - so he doesn't show a lot of respect to the teachers because like many, he feels respect needs to be earned. And when your teacher is a moron, it sure feels like a waste of time.

BUT despite his genius - he has very little common sense. DON'T try to give him directions to somewhere - even step by step drawn out - every street name he may pass listed on them directions - he'll still get lost. He also can't lead and can't follow (when driving). There are some other things but this has been the biggest lack of common sense I've seen in him.

Sometimes having more common sense than "degree" sense is better in my opinion Which is why I never really valued college (I went but dropped out after 3 years & 3 colleges). I never felt that little piece of paper telling someone I had a degree in Theatre Arts was really going to get me a big time job.... I'm sure you just walk into Universal Studios or Paramount w/ a little piece of paper saying you have a Theatre Degree and they just put you in a movie w/ Brad Pitt right away and start paying you a million dollars..... (btw - I just really didn't know what I wanted to do then - theatre arts was the only thing I could come up with that I might have some fun doing and still meet my parents & insurance's requirements to be in school - I also tried business and the 3 classes I took in that were the biggest joke ever - I did NOT learn anything).

[blas]

Although the bars near the campus here make much dinero because of the dumbass college kids around here, I'm pretty sure every bartender and every restaurant owner that works on the street right by the campus sees red when they see college kids.

They may be the future leaders of the world, but 90% of them can't even cross the street without nearly causing a 5 car pileup.

They may be getting big degrees, but half of them pass out on people's front lawns.

They may have tons of mommy and daddy's money, but they sure could afford to drop some of that money on a brain transplant.

[MadMike]

The manager and another member of staff find the student and drag him out, while another phoned the police. Customer started screaming about his HUMAN RIGHTS.

Pretending for just a second that that isn't illegal as hell, that still wouldn't give him the right to do it in the bathroom of a public place like that. If he insists on doing that, he should do it in the privacy of his own home. I have a "human right" to get it on with a willing partner, but that doesn't mean I can take her into the bathroom of some bar and do it.

Sure enough, the kitchen door FLEW open, and knocked a girl right of her feet.

I saw a sign on a windowless storeroom door at a bowling alley once:

"Common Cents:" (Yes, it was spelled like that)
"To avoid being hit by this door, don't stand in front of it."

Student: I am SO glad I will NEVER have to work in a place like this! My degree will make sure I NEVER have to work in a bar. I feel sorry for people that have to work here.

He could be in for a rude awakening when he finds out that having a degree is no guarantee of getting the job you went to school for. It took me almost a year, and some of the people I went to school with never did get that dream job. No one wants to hire you without having experience, which you can't get without a job, which you can't get without experience, and so on...

Student: No! It'll be funny!

"How about I lock you in there and set the place on fire? Now THAT'LL be funny!"

What you said was nowhere near as harsh as what I just came up with.

Student: I just wanted to ask you, do you know ANYTHING about good customer service? I'm doing a degree in management you know! So I know how to deal with people in a place of business!

Great, just what we need! Another know-it-all idiot who never dealt with customers in their lives, but knows everything they need to know because they took some bullshit management course.

For people who are getting degrees, they sure are stupid.

Sadly, that's fairly common. There are a lot of people who get straight A's in school, but don't really have any common sense in the real world.

[Kiwi]

I always hated it at the beginning of the school year when students came in with "lists" from their teachers and tried to just hand them to me...

yeah sorry honey Im not your maid and we dont offer a personal shopping service.. if you want that, go to barker and pollocks....

what... they have more expensive prices... GEE WHY DO YOU THINK THAT MIGHT BE!!!!!

if you have a question ask me, thats not a problem but if you dont know what anything is on the list and you havent even bothered to try and find it yourself despite our section being very very clearly labelled, im not going to do it for you. Dont you get angry at me if YOU dont know what sewing machines the school uses.... its YOUR class, how the freaking heck would I know!

[customersruinmylife]

Oh no, I'm not tarring them all. As I said, I'm a student myself, and most of our staff are students, but they are the most hated customers in our bar.

[nekoro]

Don't tar us all with the same brush, I'm a student too! And I'm nice!

On the other hand, most of the people I go to school with are idiotic assholes.....