Has Jamie Diamond caused anyone here to do a little self reflecting besides myself ?

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Anonymous wrote:OP is a troll who has definitely not been a democrat for 60 years, because if she’d been in America for six decades her written English would contain far fewer extremely basic grammatical mistakes.

And also real people don’t sound like that. They just don’t.

But the post has confirmed for me what I’ve suspected for a while, which is that there is a concerted effort to manipulate anxieties around college to deepen wedges between Americans.

Agreed. This is a troll, people.

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations OP! You’ve hit every RWNJ talking point. 😂

Because OP is a RWNJ.

NP. If you think OP is a RWNJ, then 90% of this country is RWNJ.

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Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

You mean Dimon??
What's your daughter's degree in?
How do you know your son was the better candidate? What was the nature of the position?

Why would you not research the truck's performance before buying if the plan was to use it to pull a travel trailer? FWIW a gasoline vehicle loses mileage range when pulling a travel trailer, why would it not be the same issue for EV? Either way the power demands are greater, probably more due to air resistance (drag) than weight. Sorry, the libs are not to blame here.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but years ago, we didn't have super cheap lending from the government and people were more judcious about picking a major that made their degree worth the cost. Now, it has gone sideways with ridiculous degree programs and students seeking an easy way out. Blame the federal reserve and government writ large for that.

STEM or bust.

How does that work when coders are out of jobs and govt is shutting down research? Military contracting? Making up phony economics?

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Why did Obama make me buy a big dumb truck?

Why did DEI force the last 3 Presidents be old white men?

Am I stupid? Why did Democrats make me stupid?

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Anonymous wrote:I think OP is a troll. But that’s just my opinion.

+1

Obvious troll or astroturfing post.

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Oy, OP.

The glaring issue in your daughter's story is that teacher's hardly make a living wage. That housing prices are so high that hard-working people can't even dream of buying. How do you walk away from your daughter's situation with your conclusions?!

As for your son... what in the world? Look, if what you say is true, he has a very winnable lawsuit. Go for it.

And the EV??? OMG, blame the little hearts and little brains Republicans who wouldn't support Biden's infrastructure plan. If he had been able to put in place the plan that would have been good for the environment and our pocketbooks, you would not have had such a terrible drive to your vacation.

SMH

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Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

Is your daughter happy? Then who gives af? I gave up a corporate career with higher wages in my thirties to take on student loans and became a nurse. Still consider it the best decision I ever made.

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Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

Boeing is an engineering company in the same way Dunkin Donuts is a bean roaster. That kind of work happens somewhere to be done by someone... but it's not the actual focus.

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Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

Boeing is an engineering company in the same way Dunkin Donuts is a bean roaster. That kind of work happens somewhere to be done by someone... but it's not the actual focus.

This. Good engineers do not work at Boeing. I know a few. Not great.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. What rude behavior some of you have ! So close minded and bigoted. I expected some insight and frankly a little compassion, not unchecked hate. That's precisely my issue with the democrat party now. Where are the nice people, where did they go ?

OP, I just want to say I feel and validate the hate you are receiving on this Board. I don’t get either other than you are tangential criticizing DEI, which I agree is rampant in large corporations.

But, the truck is on you. I would never buy a new model like this until it had 3-5 year track record, especially from Ford.

DEI is “rampant in large corporations” because study after study after study has shown that DEI improves profitability. Period.

Plz cite a few of those studies.

https://mbs.edu/news/why-diverse-teams-are-more-profitable

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-matters-even-more-the-case-for-holistic-impact

https://online.uncp.edu/degrees/business/mba/general/diversity-and-inclusion-good-for-business/

McKinsey study has been called into question.

Gartner seems to be saying that outsourcing to Asia IT to get more diversity makes you more profitable(both their methodology is not clear). Duh? Foreign labor is cheaper.

Other studies from controlled environments purporting to show diversity leads to better decisions have suffered from methodological flaws and non-replication.

Here’s the thing: if DEI really leads to more profitability and better decision making, you already have the best lab to test and prove the theory: if your theory is correct, the market will punish those actors who don’t adhere. But for some reason you guys need to push this with crappy studies rather than letting the market sort it out.

The US is running out of mediocre white men. Get with the program! You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

I'm really getting fed up with hearing you idiots piss on white people. Why don't you start a blog for your own people instead of coming on here to insult and piss on us. Don't try telling me you're white. Clearly you have only disdain and contempt for us.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. What rude behavior some of you have ! So close minded and bigoted. I expected some insight and frankly a little compassion, not unchecked hate. That's precisely my issue with the democrat party now. Where are the nice people, where did they go ?

OP, I just want to say I feel and validate the hate you are receiving on this Board. I don’t get either other than you are tangential criticizing DEI, which I agree is rampant in large corporations.

But, the truck is on you. I would never buy a new model like this until it had 3-5 year track record, especially from Ford.

DEI is “rampant in large corporations” because study after study after study has shown that DEI improves profitability. Period.

Plz cite a few of those studies.

https://mbs.edu/news/why-diverse-teams-are-more-profitable

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-matters-even-more-the-case-for-holistic-impact

https://online.uncp.edu/degrees/business/mba/general/diversity-and-inclusion-good-for-business/

McKinsey study has been called into question.

Gartner seems to be saying that outsourcing to Asia IT to get more diversity makes you more profitable(both their methodology is not clear). Duh? Foreign labor is cheaper.

Other studies from controlled environments purporting to show diversity leads to better decisions have suffered from methodological flaws and non-replication.

Here’s the thing: if DEI really leads to more profitability and better decision making, you already have the best lab to test and prove the theory: if your theory is correct, the market will punish those actors who don’t adhere. But for some reason you guys need to push this with crappy studies rather than letting the market sort it out.

The US is running out of mediocre white men. Get with the program! You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

I'm really getting fed up with hearing you idiots piss on white people. Why don't you start a blog for your own people instead of coming on here to insult and piss on us. Don't try telling me you're white. Clearly you have only disdain and contempt for us.

Oh please snowflake. I’m white and I have a white DH and two white college aged sons. They’re not mediocre. Because they realize that the world doesn’t revolve around them. Further they understand statistics: white men are declining, which was my point. You can’t just staff the world with straight white men when the demographics are rapidly changing. My white brother had two half-Asian girls. My cousins on one side are half-Hispanic and half-Asian on the other.

Of course your protest is so mediocre. I don’t want alcoholics and rapists and grifters and racists running our county, so I guess we’re even.

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Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

Is your daughter happy? Then who gives af? I gave up a corporate career with higher wages in my thirties to take on student loans and became a nurse. Still consider it the best decision I ever made.

This. I spent decades in private sector engineering and IT and eventually took a pay cut to work in a job where the mission and ethos really aligns with my values. Republicans and people like Jamie Diamond seem to think life and success is only about money and what it can buy you, but the true sweet spot is finding things in life that you enjoy, that you are good at, that the world needs, and that will pay the bills. I happen to think that the world needs (and should pay for) things like caring teachers and social workers and nurses than it needs billionaire hedge fund traders and the like. And yes, we actually need things like artists, otherwise we become a soulless society.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. What rude behavior some of you have ! So close minded and bigoted. I expected some insight and frankly a little compassion, not unchecked hate. That's precisely my issue with the democrat party now. Where are the nice people, where did they go ?

OP, I just want to say I feel and validate the hate you are receiving on this Board. I don’t get either other than you are tangential criticizing DEI, which I agree is rampant in large corporations.

But, the truck is on you. I would never buy a new model like this until it had 3-5 year track record, especially from Ford.

DEI is “rampant in large corporations” because study after study after study has shown that DEI improves profitability. Period.

Plz cite a few of those studies.

DP. Why are people so incurious? So unwilling to check claims themselves? This took me 20 seconds to find. You might google now because there are now AI summaries.

Here you go, from McKinsey:

“The business case for gender diversity on executive teams1 has more than doubled over the past decade. Each of our reports—2015, 2018, 2020, and now 2023—has found a steady upward trend, tracking ever greater representation of women on executive teams. At each time point we have assessed the data, the likelihood of financial outperformance gap has grown: Our 2015 report found top-quartile companies had a 15 percent greater likelihood of financial outperformance versus their bottom-quartile peers; this year, that figure hits 39 percent (Exhibit 1).”

“A strong business case for ethnic diversity is also consistent over time, with a 39 percent increased likelihood of outperformance for those in the top quartile of ethnic representation versus the bottom quartile. This has persisted even with eight new economies added in our analysis of 2022 financial data.2”

“The penalties3 for low diversity on executive teams are also intensifying. Companies with representation of women exceeding 30 percent (and thus in the top quartile) are significantly more likely to financially outperform those with 30 percent or fewer. Similarly, companies in our top quartile for ethnic diversity show an average 27 percent financial advantage over others (Exhibit 2).”

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-matters-even-more-the-case-for-holistic-impact

Let's not let facts get in the way of political propaganda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His quote, not mine.

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

I have been reflecting on it a lot.

- Did it really make sense for me to encourage my daughter to pursue her interest in college and thereby get a useless degree that she can not find employment in ? Instead she had to fall back on teaching HS with dismal wages and scant possibilities of buying a home in the next 10 yrs. Why did I not try harder to encourage her to think about the job possibilities instead of being such a pushover. Her only hope is to get the student loans dismissed after public service.

- OTOH my Son with an advanced engineering degree and almost 10 yrs experience was recently passed over for promotion in lieu of a lesser qualified minority with only a BS from a second rate school and less than half his experience on the job. His company explicitly began hiring based on DEI a few yrs back. It's so infuriating that after $220,000 in student loans, mostly straight A's, dedicated and enthusiastic employee is being overlooked because he can't change his skin color. How can my son even compete ?

- My husband bought a new Ford EV truck and mid-size travel trailer in March. We own land near the beach in South Carolina that we were looking forward to visiting during the summer. It turned out to be like a comedy movie. What should have taken us 6 hours drive time turned into 14 hours after having to charge the battery 3 times. Why didn't the salesman tell us the extra tow weight would zapp the battery that much !! We were all so disgusted that we traded the truck in at Myrtle Beach for a regular gasoline engine for the trip home. I think all this climate talk and the EV rebates has gotten ahead of reality.

Op, in your replies, you complain about the hate you are getting. But this entire post is based on a hateful quote, so that really set the tone. Like they say, nobody is more critical of democrats than other democrats. And therein lies the problem. We expect perfection from our politicians, and the right has no standards whatsoever.

I am still an advocate of following your passion in college. I am assuming your daughter, like mine, is majoring in fine arts, or something along those lines. Sure, it is going to be a tougher path, but she can get where she needs to be. Just not right out of the gate. Which is ok. Teaching for awhile to help with loans while (hopefully) finding a way to build credentials and network in her field is actually a very good plan. She is on the right track.

You don’t know the whole story with your son. Maybe he is a very valued employee, but they didn’t feel this position was a good fit for him. Maybe his interpersonal skills need some work. He could meet with management for feedback to give him a better shot at the next promotion.

The EV situation is on you. Most people I know who own EVs only use them for local driving/work commute. EVs have come a long way but still have a ways to go before they can replace our gas cars entirely. Which is why the transition to EVs is very gradual. Hopefully lesson learned, and you will do more research next time. Not judging. I just upgraded to a newer model of my car. Turns out, I don’t like it nearly as much as the older model, and it has some features I hate. I didn’t do enough research. That’s on me, not the democratic party.