How many of you think engineers have a great sense of entitlement? (credit, jobs)
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That's what I get from this board and other forums as well. How many of you on here think that many engineers have a sense of entitlement and should absolutely grateful that their jobs are either being outsourced or being taken by people imported from the third-world? For those that do, would you rather American students stop studying STEM entirely and we import everyone to do all of our engineering/scientific/technical work in the country?
Keep in mind that the loony thought processes you are addressing goes as follows:
Step 1) Accuse anyone who's out of work or underemployed of being "lazy, stupid, and lacking in skills and education."
Step 2) Get angry and frustrated when people prove otherwise.
Step 3) Lash out at everyone who expects their hard work, skills, and education to count for something as "being entitled."
Step 4) Pat one's self on the back while taking full credit for one's own good fortune because "everyone gets what they deserve in life."
It's not just engineers these types hate - they simply despise anyone beneath them socio-economically and believe in a Just World. Don't bother reasoning with them - it won't work.
How many of you on here think that many engineers have a sense of entitlement and should absolutely grateful that their jobs are either being outsourced or being taken by people imported from the third-world?
Sounds more like jealously on the part of non-engineers...
I do not think engineers have a sense of entitlement.
I do not see why ANYONE - not just engineers - would be "absolutely grateful that their jobs are either being outsourced or being taken by people imported from the third-world".
Sounds more like jealously on the part of non-engineers...
I do not think engineers have a sense of entitlement.
I do not see why ANYONE - not just engineers - would be "absolutely grateful that their jobs are either being outsourced or being taken by people imported from the third-world".
Yup.
Not really specific to engineers. Basically anyone with the a useful job skill has the same "entitlement" and doesn't need to beg for the scraps (Starbucks jobs).
I'm married to an engineer (avionics and electrical). He's got to be one of the most humble, down to earth people I've ever met and I'm not just saying that because he buys me everything in the world. In fact, of the two of us, I'm the over entitled one.
I don't know about entitlement, but I do know that 'engineers' tend to get really annoyed whenever someone has the title engineer but did not specifically go to a school of engineering.
I was promoted in a previous job from system admin to system engineer and my engineering school grad friends had a small fit over it -- stating that titles are thrown around left and right and how these people are not REAL engineer, blah blah.
My argument is that engineer, in some instances, is more of a definition of your role and the work you do; not whether your diploma specifically says college of engineering. Anyone can get a piece of paper, I'd rather trust someone who has 'engineered' things through practice.
Sorry, I know this rant was slightly off topic.
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