Thursday 14 November 2013

Diploma Disease

This morning, I listened in a chat between two disgruntled gentlemen who felt that their qualifications are not respected at their workplace and by their common argument, I thought they got it all wrong. To tell the truth, things are changing fast, not every employer is diploma possessed; some don’t care where you learned or how to learn. If you can do what they pay you for, you become the boss, as simple as that.

If you hold an ‘export-degree’ from The ‘University Jupiter’ (wherever that is), and your colleague only has a diploma from MDI, but when it comes down to it, he does better what y’all are a paid for, he invariably outperforms you when appraised, really, you cannot call that colleague a favoured ignorant just because he didn’t pay for a university degree.

I am not bringing paper qualifications into disrepute, I'm just saying that whatever qualification you hold, it should tone with your performance. It is rather unfortunate that the duo had their hopeful dispositions shattered, but that’s what’s up, not every certificate from ‘Cambodia’ is a guaranteed means to your rise to a higher position of limited responsibility.

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