Maggie's Farm

Our company quite hiring graduates of most colleges years ago. There are a few select colleges that we consider. Otherwise, we found that it was not worth the hassle to hire idiots with an inflated sense of self-worth. We found found that hiring reasonably intelligent and motivated high school graduates who had the brains, but not the finances, to attend college - and who had been out in the real world for a year or two - proved to be a better investment.

Rather than wasting our time trying to de-program attitudes such as displayed by students at Missouri and Hamilton, we search for young adults with the maturity and humility to recognize that the only reason for hiring them is that we expect them to produce for us more than they cost us. Those that recognize this usually have the motivation to do well in our on the job training and end up better qualified and more productive than their college counterparts who think that they deserve a paycheck simply for being hired.

Unfortunately, today's typical college graduate THINKS he knows everything, but actually knows almost nothing. Hence, it is virtually impossible to teach him anything. He is used to being coddled and to receiving "A"s for what were once called crip courses. He is unaccustomed and unprepared to face and deal with the unavoidable hardships and failures of work and life. As such, he retreats from challenges and hard work of the real world and comforts himself with the alibi that he's a graduate of the University of Kumbaya.