I remember when I was a kid, I used to love this arcade game called ‘Raiden’. It was an air combat fighting game (required very little strategy, but more of reflex), where you get to control a cool looking spaceship, creaming asses and dodging hostile fires as you go along. One of the coolest things you can do in the game – I remember, was to ‘power up’. Kill a commander ship, and you’ll be rewarded with a floating blinking ‘power up’ icon. To get it, you just need to ram into the icon, and your weapons will be automatically upgraded (wider canon, twin laser beams) – which allows you to take on bigger and nastier bosses. Good times in arcade centers.
I was thinking, wouldn’t it be awesome if there are indeed such ‘power ups’ in reality? You know, like… walk up to your boss, punch him in the face, get a floating icon, then ZINGGG, you are automatically upgraded to take his place… and then move on to take on the next level? If things are that simple, then surely we’d all be brawling our asses off. Any retard knows that this is just ridiculous.
But one of the technicians in my lab seems to be delusional enough to believe in that ‘power up’ bullshit. He was sustaining his technician job fine until he got himself an engineering degree recently, which gave him the alleged ‘power up’. The engineering degree, in some weird ways, made him think that he is all that smarter, and more competent overnight. He began to diss his own job all of the sudden, citing that it was too substandard for him, and demanded for something better. Metaphorically, you can imagine that this is akin to a baboon who just got hold of a pair of pants, and demanded to get out of the zoo to work in Google.
Little did that technician realize – that his engineering degree, isn’t going to help his current state of employment (let alone his experience and knowledge). A technician having a degree is still a technician, because he was hired to be a technician. A KFC manager is still a KFC manager even if that guy gets a PhD during his tenure. However, it will be a different story if the person QUITS, and applied elsewhere for a better position (which he should have done, since he despises the job so vehemently). But sadly, that technician thought that his degree was his ‘power up’ pill, and therefore, he is exempted from needing to work hard, gaining the rapport/trusts at work and achieving his given goals to gain a promotion – to become an engineer. Makes you wonder what are the kids learning these days at college, doesn’t it?
*FYI – I did assign the technician to take over some of the ‘low level engineering work’ a few days ago as a trial. Guess what happened? The guy freaked out because he was totally clueless (he was bad even for a technician level) and couldn’t handle a shit. Suffice to say, his engineering degree is nothing more than a piece of paper to adorn his empty wall…
One thing we don’t learn in our tertiery study here is how to think straight and maturely. The paper qualification that I have doesn’t even teach me how to be a person, it just only taught me how to calculate the voltage drop at this particular resistor :)
I guess your technician’s qualification will have to wait till the economy gets better, as right now its even harder to try to negotiate another new job
Tee hee hee… Reminds me of one stupid bitch who came for a job interview at the uni where I was doing my degree. She was going on and on about her thesis and how it was supposed to be “the best the examiners in UK had seen” and all that…
The interviewer, who was obviously not impressed, asked her if she’d heard of the Donoghue vs. Stevenson case. She immediately said “Oh yes! When I was writing my thesis, I think I came across that case. Very interesting for the legal system of Australia in recent times!” The interviewer then told her to get out….
That case happened in Scotland… In 1932… And its the FIRST case that most law students will study in their basic LLB degree…. Her education = epic FAIL!
TiBuN – Dude, you learn about voltage drop in your ‘tertiary study’? I learnt that in high school! wtf??
MT – The closest ‘Donoghue’ that I know is Liz Lemon’s boss in ’30 Rock’ (and I’m not even sure the names spell the same).
Mike
I got the Raiden2 program (PC standalone) game with me .. Still enjoy playing it very much…
Well, there are always some idiots around .. ahahaha
haha, donoghue v stevenson – tort of negligence, i remember tat!
Poor technie, too conceited or ignorant of how things really works in real corporate world. He ought to give you some tribute for ur tough love.
I totally agreed with some of the above… Working is not just about paper… it will take some years to earn those working experience… not to mention working attitude…
Hahahahahah… you know… there are fellas out there who even think that they are smarter than everyone because they got several years of experience… they will talk and talk… but given the work… they totally cry in front of you…
I’m having one, NOW, external consultant begging for help to troubleshoot a program every other day… imagine that!
Thank god… development is over for the time being…
Its really screwed to have such people around…
Yea, like the power up in Raiden, once just one bullet kena and you loose all your power, left some small powers to be pick up when you come back on.
Similar to the technician, you have given him some jobs, which is the bullets, and he just crash…
studies… too little is very bad, and too much is a little bad. so always got for more than just enough. bad sadly, education is more like for sale nowadays, i know cos i am a part-time lecturer in a private university, and they make money there.
eduction is normally just enough to get your first job, but it is never enough to grow in a company using that piece of paper or even for your future jobs.
it’s like an airplane ticket, you can throw it after you enter the airplane. but unlike an airplane ticket, it is your ‘can-do’ attitude that determines if you can upgrade to business class or first class seats later on.
Maybe that fella BOUGHT his degree online
LX – I still have the original ‘Raiden’, emulator ROM file…
einsamsoldat – That’s not love that I gave dude. That’s just a chance.
william – There’s only 1 shortcut to the top in an MNC – suck dicks.
kew – Hmmm, I didn’t look at it that way, cool analogy though
Sammi – So, you’re a part time lecturer? Doesn’t sound like one…
angie – Yeah, from the Nigerian prince perhaps…
stop dissing me in your blog.
Oh, I remember that game! I used to play it like every time I went to the arcade (urm tho I was kinda underaged at that time). Wasn’t very good …. but loved the power ups! ^^
I think they still have it in the arcades …. version 20 or something LOL ^^
Karateka or something was the other one I kept playing …
low level engineer – get the fuck back to work
power up? yup, my company just powered-up me with 20% salary increment, better benefits, petrol allowance, travel allowance (for traveling everyday from my house to the office, wtf) in bad global economy crisis!
hey jusoh, where do u work? chinese company that manufactures shampoo?
dude, raiden… hahhaa… i remember whenever we face the king, there are safe spots. just park the ship, keep hitting shoot. don’t have to move an inch.
That guy has the whole concept of what a degree is for backwards. You don’t buy a degree and then magically get new skills. You LEARN skills and then get a degree for it. Basically, a degree is not a power-up, it’s your score =)