From a private correspondence:
Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah.
I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history. In the last 12 years, employers have actually begun blackballing graduates from many schools. I thought it very odd in the beginning, but I get it.
These companies are looking for the best and the brightest. Employees who fear to speak out or challenge orthodoxy are useless. Progress is made by changing the status quo, by proposing a hypothesis of research and giving it heck. Progress is not made by mute meat puppets who smile and nod their heads. That’s just the beginning.
The other problem is hiring people that have not fallen into the abyss of the wokeista looking for microaggressions and finding some manner of being upset and spending half their time filing complaints.
My wife is a clinical coordinator and mentor at a large hospital. She has had complaints filed against her for … wait for it.
• Telling a student to put away their cell phone and pay attention. (whoa — mean, huh?)
• A student complaining that there is too much paperwork and typing. Her response was, “Buck up, buttercup.” (Probably macro-aggression).
• One student had a really stinky attitude and complained about work, home, relationships, the front desk, other employees. My wife pulled her aside and said, “The workplace is about work, not a public grip session. Please monitor your mouth.” (The student was dismissed from clinical rounds after telling the supervising physician and my wife, but yet a complaint was filed with HR.
Now, what is the determining factor for many of the employees on which university graduates they pass over? The cancel culture. That’s right, canceling speakers, classes, shutting down opposing views is at the top of the employers’ lists for passing over graduates.
Cancel culture is is a lose-lose strategy, one that attracts those prone to loserdom and sets them up for failure, while inflicting damage to others along the way.