… I love my hometown. However, the corruption and the attitude of entitlement are given free reign in Memphis. So sadly, Memphis is an ideal city to host such a conference. The fact that this nonsense is being encouraged in Memphis is shameful but, unforunately, par the course.

a majority of the citizens of the state in which this disgusting crap occurs marches on the Capital of the State and demands that our tax dollars stop funding the colleges…..and believe me it could be ANY STATE any COLLEGE!

As long as we just write on blogs and get offended in our houses and do nothing it will only get more egregious!

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It has been over 15 years since I began my study in college. I went to U of Delaware and SUNYIT, and I do not remember ever taking any of these types of courses that the students these days are required to take as part of an Engineering and Physics degree.

I just hired a few brand new engineers out of college to work under my lead, and I have my work cut out for me. These kids are absolutely oblivious to the real world and the fundamentals of engineering for that matter. They seem to be full fledged know-it-alls and entitled.

The other day my new engineer from Georgia Southern decided that he had to make sure I knew that 25% of women have been raped in college. I looked at him puzzled and said, “where the heck did you get that number?” He replied, “I got it in one of his required courses that taught him diveristy and womens’ issues or something like that”. I proceeded to tell him that the number is grossly overestimated. He told me I didn’t know what it is like in college these days. I said I do not remember that many complaints of rape on the campuses I was on. His answer, that is because it isn’t reported. Geez, if you don’t hear about, it isn’t seen and it isn’t reported then it must be happening. What is wrong with these kids? What are they teaching these kids in technical curriculums these days?

Just the other day, my other 23 year old engineer went on to tell me that he voted for Obama cause it was about his future not mine. He further said it is his future, I am the past. Also, I told him before the election, our line of work has been promised to be cut down by an Obama administration. Did he listen, NO! Now we are most likely on the chopping block for the FY10 budget.

I am finding out, that I will have to spend the first year undoing all of the damage done to these kids in college or high school. I have to spend time righting their perceptions of the career and professional world before I can get them to think like engineers and not like young half-cocked diversity idealists.

Seriously, they can not handle the rough and tumble world of engineering because many times we run into arguements and disagreements which can leave unsuspecting idealists distraught and unable to cope.

I have witnessed this inability to cope in two meetings now with both of them. My new engineer hires are a minority and a female with excellent GPAs at their respective colleges. The one somehow thought that there was some sort of racism going on when an experienced white engineer had to correct him. The girl actually got up and left the meeting because she was emotionally distraught.

My engineers need to remember that we have customers. They cannot spend so much time getting upset because they perceive some sort of discrimination from our customers, when obviously it had not occurred.

I blame this attitude on the colleges and schools because when I got the same treatment out of school as a young engineer, I never remember thinking, that maybe they did it because they like discriminating against red-heads. Come on kids grow up already.

Phew, sorry about burning all that here, but one of these events happened today, and this diary speaks to me.

my other 23 year old engineer went on to tell me that he voted for Obama cause it was about his future not mine. He further said it is his future, I am the past. Also, I told him before the election, our line of work has been promised to be cut down by an Obama administration. Did he listen, NO! Now we are most likely on the chopping block for the FY10 budget.

You should tell your team a story I heard. A manager was trying to figure out how to cut 10% of his workforce, and he was trying to figure out which employees to let go. Since they cutback are due to the Obama administration, he figured the best way was to find the folks with the Obama stickers in the parking lot.

“Wait a minute that is not a conservative thing but rather it is just good business practice.” It is a conservative thing.