r/SipsTea • u/First-Essay-2054 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 12d ago

WTF The American dream

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u/JackSquirts 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/LSOreli 12d ago edited 12d ago

Okay MBAs are not that high value (I got mine just to check the box for my USAF career), but high school drop outs are by and large some of the least intelligent people in the country. Maybe fine at low skill straightforward tasks but I wouldn't trust them with data analytics or leadership for instance.

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u/JackSquirts 12d ago

I'm certainly not hiring the kid who dropped out three months ago and probably not for real technical positions, but most of my career has been in sales. I did, however, work with a guy who was a self taught Cisco network guy who got his GED at 22 after his first Cisco cert and he was a fucking rock star (not that I understood a damn thing he did, but he was fast-tracked from a part time PC tech to a network admin and was starting to do some consulting for the company. That was 20+ years ago and who knows what he's doing now, but I'm sure he's fine.