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| Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
| Zeus 12/18/18 9:42:45 PM #78: | _AdjI_ posted... Being willing to work hard to memorize material for an exam has very little predictive ability for being willing to work hard in any actual job, especially when you consider that studying for an exam is done entirely on one's own time and the only consequence for slacking off is a lower GPA (which, as this topic has established, isn't much of a consequence). You mean there's no correlation between somebody not wanting to put in a minimal amount of effort to their willingness to put in a lot more effort? _AdjI_ posted... Which is largely beyond their control because of their need to be paid enough to eat. I said this already. Not necessarily true. When a person and a machine operate roughly the same, it does strictly comes down to relative cost and automation will win. However, a good clerk can provide value beyond just ringing somebody out, whether it's upselling, improving retention, etc. And, of course, self-checks have a lot of upfront expenses and require a lot of volume to justify the cost. Granted, for all the talk of automation, I'm not sure *any* retailer has gone completely with self-checks at this point. _AdjI_ posted... Exams are still a pretty huge chunk of GPA, and getting a good grade on a paper is more a matter of being able to write well than any other skill that would be applicable in a professional setting. Because being able to coherently express your thoughts and demonstrate an argument has no correlation with anything in a professional setting? --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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