Brown Motion

Selling the promise of higher education in brand name campuses is now reached level of maturity where the sheep are drawn to the slaughter house with a simple email invite. Marketing costs have come way down.  Asians (by that largely Chinese and Indian ex pat) will arrive in droves to seminars hosted on school property with a Chinese speaker who may have a couple of female lackeys putting up a powerpoint to walk through.  The pitch is asking the lost souls to sign up for 1 on 1 consulting for their child in exchange for mucho dinero. Note this is touted as a legit way to gain access to top tier schools without going to jail or forking out large gobs of cash as donations. Mere mention that the founder had something to do with an Ivy League brand (might as well have done some obscure week long management training course) will draw out the hyper anxious parents wanting to better their children's lives. While the parental motivation may be real the path chosen is oft misg...

That is what I am turning into.  I cannot stand millenials.  The generation that economists have labeled as ones that are fresh out of college.  Or something close to it. I sat through some workshops cum training a day or two in the past couple weeks to learn about ideas and techniques foreign to me.  e.g. coding in JSON and building a web app to working with concepts like Human Centered Design. I also got inundated with phrases like 'baselining, dashboarding, solutioning'. It basically made me dash to board my bus as a solution to my jargonophobia. These events involved working with or listening to this young breed of employees that have a sense of entitlement that they wear as a mark of honor.   They get hired out of school to work in 'Strategy' and that they think makes them invincible as evidenced by their cocky demeanor.  They do not exhibit the subtle niceties of please and thank you (not all of them but a lot of them) and seem to float in a ...