People we need to fire

There is so much BS in the world we live in yet we seem to be perfectly at peace paying many among us for propogating it and taking up our time in doing so.

I vote that we start a movement to get rid of these dimwits. In no particular order are my candidates for instant firing -

Weather men and women - Here is a class of idiots that are trained at an early age to say three words - Live Doppler Radar, while simultaneously waving both their arms in a general counterclockwise direction. Every so often they are allowed to rotate them in a clockwise direction. They know not what they speak of and use vocabulary that is meant to confuse. Take for instance the use of 'on shore flow' and 'off shore flow'. WTF? Air moves - we know that. What is this jargon? I never to this day know the meaning of those two phrases. This is one class of losers who get to wear a suit for always being wrong.
Politicians in all disciplines and levels of government - Another wide array of pathetic robbers who effectively will cheat in broad daylight and narrow dusklight with the charm of a snake oil salesman. To be honest I have never met anyone selling snake oil and am not sure what that phrase means either. But since we are being dishonest I thought I'd slide that one in.
Professors in Engineering Colleges - what is going on here? Anyone with basic reading skills can pronounce the vocabulary printed in largish tomes. But what of it? How is it this helps prepare a mind for some creativity and risk taking and thinking outside the box? Can the curriculum get past the engine? It has already been built.
Professors in B-schools - What? Do you think that the so called Masters of Business Administration are actually administrators after all? Then why are we paying someone to make more of them? What is the mastery here? And to think there are paid experts that confer said titles on new yokels that walk in through the building doors and sit at a desk debating a case study or figure out how to cook (not a new food dish) the company books is scary.
Apps designers - There are more apps now as a category of meaningless things than there are cured diseases ever since we got in the disease curing business. Which one do we think is more important?
All leaders of any organization or country or formal man made bodies - All these people are egotistical, cheating hacks that will manipulate the gullible and weak. Why as adults who can think for themselves do we need some retard with family connections to other important sounding retards lead us? What are we being led to? Stop following anybody.
Self help gurus - From Oprah to Chopra, the world is constantly manipulated by people with perceived power and air time. The on shore flow coming from their mouth is a gale force that will make you dumber by the passing second.

Think for yourself. Stop reading this blog and do some real work.

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Brown Motion

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