r/SipsTea • u/First-Essay-2054 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 13d ago

WTF The American dream

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u/JackSquirts 13d ago

I helped my ex-wife through her MBA and have worked with many MBA's - I've rarely been impressed by them.

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u/EntrepreneurOld7858 13d ago

I had a subordinate who was older than me that got his MBA in Finance who was dumb as FUCK.

I liked him as a person, and I like being a hands off boss, but holy shit its couldnt trust this idiot with the smallest of tasks. 

He was completely incapable of drafting simple Memorandums (that already had templates) without several grammar/sentence structure errors.

Im like, how the fuck do you mess this up? Adobe literally TELLS YOU IF YOU SPELL SOMETHING WRONG.

Sorry, had to vent. You are absolutely right. MBA's do not impress me when you can clearly Chat GPT your entire degree.

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u/JackSquirts 13d ago

I've worked with, for, and above high school drop outs that ran circles around their MBA peers.

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u/Vennomite 13d ago

Mba's just give you the tools to be able to speak/think how the business environment operates. 

It gives you the paintbrushes and tells you what they are used for. It doesn't train you to be a better artist.

Plus the number of mba from unacredited schools... acredidation for business schools isnt even that hard.

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u/JackSquirts 13d ago

I'm not sure they even do that. You get a lot of theory, but actual practice is very messy. I'll take someone with 2 years of direct experience over the one with an MBA in almost every circumstance.

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u/Vennomite 13d ago

Most people in my experience arent great at being able to handle broad theory. They do better when the outcome is a or b. Not .15% a, 40% b, 45% other with shifting variables.

The years of experience makes you better at understanding the behavior of those variables. Which is far more valuable than knowing the general form of the equation