The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23580   Message #265115
Posted By: M. Ted (inactive)
26-Jul-00 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Illiteracy
Subject: RE: BS: Illiteracy
Come over here for a bit, Kevin, we have been going through a very strange period--after years of tight job markets, suddenly things have flipped around, and there are places where kids are being hired just out of college for middle management jobs with six figure salaries--and with the reading and writing skills we have been discussing, as well as comperable social and management skills--

Don't think it will last though, because you won't believe how much damage the combination of poor job skills and post-adolescent smugness and overconfidence can do--