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Let me tell y’all something! I went to business school and graduated, I started as a liberal and became radicalized half way through my schooling. I have a degree in business management from a 4 years university. One of my favorite moments was when one of my finance classes decided to debate whether “water is a human right”. And i was amongst the small minority who fought furiously for it’s RIGHT.
Not only is she extremely wrong, Elon has made terrible business moves and it should be used as a case study of what NOT to Do.
And lastly, yes business school can be a joke, especially when you’re surrounded by a bunch of coked out students who all think they’re the next Elon Musk. These people saw the wolf of wall street and thought the main characters were “inspiring”. Anyone who’s gone to business school knows wtf ethics are, yet THEY’RE NEVER applied within the US to say the least.
Business school courses are the only subject where i could bullshit and wing presentations for a high grade. The most challenging classes were finance, business calculus, and accounting. I enjoyed economics because my last econ professor, a very staunch capitalist, was quoted as saying “no one understands capitalism better than Karl Marx” and would often cite him. I began to use Marx in my economics essays and my professor often gave me a high grade. But my favorite part of his course was when i showed up LATE AND HIGH AF smelling like weed to his final, where we needed our laptops for this part of the exam. The professor approached me to hand my exam, and after taking a huge whiff of the weed i was reeking, he then noticed my socialist sticker with an Angela Davis quote and made the most stank face I’ve ever seen. LOL i ACED his exam btw.
Edit: i also enjoyed business law, it was fascinating to me and i often enjoyed the torta in which corporations were held liable for their BS.
I graduated, and work self employed now. I am now back in school studying music. I’m doing half time classes while going to work and my half time music classes are twice as hard as my full time business courses. it’s not even a debate.
I had similar experience! I graduated in business management! All the people I worked with in groups thought they were the next wolf of wall st.
I had a professor give me Milton Friedman, and anti communist literature as a curriculum. Then he was outed as a pedo.
I was a totally different person when i began as well. The US is truly the belly of the beast
I too have a degree in bean counting, and the business/management classes that were forced upon me was pure propaganda
Bean counting classes were unironically a million times more interesting and enjoyable than business management garbage.
Consolidation >>>>>>> cOrPoRAte sOciAL resPonSiBILitY
Well, I only have my degree- not a chartered accountant (Yet? I don't know if I'll ever pursue the qualification. Not a yank so it ain't the AICPA in my context)
Working towards the chartered qualification feels like the corporate sigma grindset thing that I'm now actively trying to avoid.
I became really burned out by the time I graduated, and I'm content with my current low-level (low-stress) bean counting position in industry. Pay and benefits are alright for my region too. Don't really envy my ex-classmates in public accounting right now.
P.S. As usual the empire breaks with the rest of the world. Ain't nothing wrong with IFRS but y'all gotta have yer fancy dandy GAAP
They made all the engineering students in our school take 2 business courses, I stupidly took business law because i thought i would be useful and all my friends did the bullshit leadership course. Like I still remember desperately trying to get through the thousand page textbook before the final while everyone else was in the common room doing improv to prepare for their "exam".
I tried doing an accounting degree this fall. But I could hardly attend a class named "business and their fonctions" which I could only describe as a pure ideology class.
We had to learn what traits make a good entrepreneur, what is the name of the strategy of laying off people, etc. I'll let you know that having an initial capital to invest in your business was not an answer.
All I wanted to do was a degree in non-profit accounting and that stuff was barely even mentioned. I dropped.
The subject can be very overwhelming because it's so desensitizing of human subjects. It's why j stuck to Marx, Ethics, and Business Law as a means of using good subjects to counter against it. But it didn't happen overnight i had dropped out and returned just to finish what i started. I returned as a Marxist tho, so I'm thankful for that.
Next to Central American studies (taught me about imperialism towards my own people.) Business courses radicalized me so fast.
From that food truck in the dirt lot next to the gas station.
Yeah. The one with all the mini trucks full of construction equipment parked out front.
Cut costs dramatically and do it fast and all at once to get it over with.
That just sounds like really dumb advice lol
Cut costs by firing people with jobs that are completely mysterious to you, and do it all at once. Then days later, learn enough information to identify a small handful out of the completely essential group of people, and beg them to come back
Unless it's for :gui:. "I cut the budget for the royal family down very quickly!"
MBAs are the biggest scam. You pay for an education that makes you dumber
Facts. I work at a large company. The education they received is that they’re all Masters of the Universe and they can’t fail but they can be failed by others.
Most people in business classes think they're the next Jeff Bezos waiting to happen, i had to study and work in groups with these coked out frat boys.
that corn cob dril tweet has got to be seeing the most play it has in years
Hey advertisers? Do you want to lose a couple billion dollars on fake tweets? Do you want your mascot to give your child customers the middle finger? See I'm on a listening tour. A listening tour. I'm all ears here, let me know how you'd like your brand to be f u c k e d
Funnily enough, in my business school education, knowledge management was an important topic.
You can still learn a lot in it. My favorite subject was ethics, which any business graduate has studied but for some reason is never applied! The best examples of good ethics were from companies outside the US!
When I was taught business ethics they just said "don't get caught breaking the law"
That's horrible, that didn't happen in my courses but we once debated in class about water being a human right or a commodity.
My business school had a militant union man lecturer who spent the entire semester teaching about disruption tactics under the guise of "this is what you might have to deal with WINK".
Anyway, it's still a finishing school for sociopaths, but there's a few good people around.
if you hurry you might still be able to delete this before the site goes down
ha, that's funny
