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Originally Posted by polak
Nothing is funnier than talking to students after their first work term or co-op.
In class they learn high level management techniques that would normally be used by senior managment and above (hell some of the stuff I learned in certian classes couldn't be applied by anyone under VP level, literally company wide policy changes) and then they get into the workplace and realize that for the next few years they'll be pencil pushers working on piles of paper work and pushing through mundane, routine, day to day tasks and probably won't remember 90% of what they learned by the time they'll actually be in a position to apply it.
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Sounds like law.
I had a friend who got top marks to work in a big corporate firm. This took countless hours in the library to get there. His first task invovled 12 hour days, 7 days/week in a filing room by himself going through boxes and boxes of papers. He had to pull out every paper that mentioned the name of one of the employees of his client....he was told they would not be hiring him back a few months later. The other articling student, who happened to have a family member who was a partner, was hired back. So was the hot woman; she, however, had to put up with 50-60 year old men acting totally inappropriate around her on a regular basis. She was let go once it became clear she wanted to get married and start a family.
Did I mention that baby boomers are also horribly corrupt and nepotic and sleazy in their hiring practices.