Sorry to reply to my own post, but I hit submit before thinking to put in the rest of my point.
On the other side of the coin, I see a few bright individuals without degrees that have a strong work ethic and genuinely want to do a good job. These people outperform and are rewarded for doing a great job. Luckily this company encourages, rewards, and promotes this behavior, regardless of the degree requirement.
TLDR - stupid people can get degrees, smart people can succeed with or without a degree in almost any field. Degrees are useless, expensive, and a waste of time.
My anecdotal evidence lines up with yours fairly well. In my place of work, we've hired around 100 sales people in the last two years. From that number, a good chunk of them were new grads who had never had professional a job before. Others came from other industries. Many of them are still struggling to do their jobs today, two years later. Some of them even have a Masters degree and from what I can tell, are just as stupid as the next guy, with little work ethic, or drive to succeed. Almost all of them sure have a giant sense of entitlement, though.
Hah...my Garmin does the same thing when I set it to avoid tolls. Damn thing tried taking me 3 hours out of my way to avoid the $8 in tolls. Got that setting turned off pretty quick...
If these are all network printers that support PCL, there is no need to bother going through a driver or using any of the OS printing calls. You can simply use your scripting language of choice to open up a network connection on port 9100 and dump your own PCL code right to the port. The printer will interpret the PCL code natively and you're good to go.
I thought tylenol, ibuprofen, and the like were pretty commonly used when people get sick. How is this news, besides the fact that they decided to implement a ridiculous screening process that is easily bypassed?
Did you happen to RTFA by chance? You seem a little mixed up on what happened. Reiss was misquoted. He did not put any religious convictions above scientific teaching.
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Sorry to reply to my own post, but I hit submit before thinking to put in the rest of my point. On the other side of the coin, I see a few bright individuals without degrees that have a strong work ethic and genuinely want to do a good job. These people outperform and are rewarded for doing a great job. Luckily this company encourages, rewards, and promotes this behavior, regardless of the degree requirement. TLDR - stupid people can get degrees, smart people can succeed with or without a degree in almost any field. Degrees are useless, expensive, and a waste of time.
My anecdotal evidence lines up with yours fairly well. In my place of work, we've hired around 100 sales people in the last two years. From that number, a good chunk of them were new grads who had never had professional a job before. Others came from other industries. Many of them are still struggling to do their jobs today, two years later. Some of them even have a Masters degree and from what I can tell, are just as stupid as the next guy, with little work ethic, or drive to succeed. Almost all of them sure have a giant sense of entitlement, though.
Hah...my Garmin does the same thing when I set it to avoid tolls. Damn thing tried taking me 3 hours out of my way to avoid the $8 in tolls. Got that setting turned off pretty quick...
If these are all network printers that support PCL, there is no need to bother going through a driver or using any of the OS printing calls. You can simply use your scripting language of choice to open up a network connection on port 9100 and dump your own PCL code right to the port. The printer will interpret the PCL code natively and you're good to go.
I thought tylenol, ibuprofen, and the like were pretty commonly used when people get sick. How is this news, besides the fact that they decided to implement a ridiculous screening process that is easily bypassed?
Did you happen to RTFA by chance? You seem a little mixed up on what happened. Reiss was misquoted. He did not put any religious convictions above scientific teaching.