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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love giving chances to those who don't have fancy degrees. Top kids at average state schools are often smarter and harder working than Ivy types. But there is a clear line between using that to motivate you and being totally insecure and having a chip on your shoulder.[/quote]

DP. I agree with the quoted bit just above.  I know good engineers from WVU and VT who show up with a huge chip on their shoulder and tremendous workplace insecurity AND others from the same schools who show up motivated to show they can do the work (but no chip on the shoulder).  People in the second group are highly valuable.  People in the first group are just disruptive at work.  [/quote]

Do they have a chip or do you inadvertently say obnoxious things to them about being from WV/SWVa?  People say the stupidest sh?t to people from Appalachia, even educated people.  At my Ivy half the people treated me like a Neanderthal come to life or a circus freak.[/quote]

I can’t tell you the number of times people at work have made inbreeding jokes when they find out I went to WVU for my undergraduate.[/quote]

The joke is on them as it is illegal to marry cousins in West Virginia and Kentucky, but perfectly legal in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, New York, California, Illinois,  Colorado,  Vermont, New Jersey. Connecticut...[/quote]

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