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Re: Debt's too high - won't pay
« Reply #50 on: April 06, 2015, 01:43:05 PM »
Also, I think it was roo_ster on here who proposed an easy solution to this, assuming that just getting the feds out of the student loan game entirely is not an option right now. Keep the debt non-dischargeable, but make the college co-sign for the loan with an agreement that repaying it will be done solely with non-federal or state generated funds.
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Re: Debt's too high - won't pay
« Reply #51 on: April 06, 2015, 08:21:48 PM »
I can't remember the last time I saw a hiring manager give a crap about a degree.

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Unfortunately, sometimes to get to the manager you have to get past the HR first. And they have a degree on the list of requirements, and if you don't have it, your resume can be round-filed. They know jack about the work and can't really judge experience.

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Re: Debt's too high - won't pay
« Reply #52 on: April 06, 2015, 09:01:19 PM »
Unfortunately, sometimes to get to the manager you have to get past the HR first. And they have a degree on the list of requirements, and if you don't have it, your resume can be round-filed. They know jack about the work and can't really judge experience.

When I need to hire someone, I tell my recruiters what I need.  I write the the job req, I tell them what skills I want, what level of experience, etc.  They find candidates and send the resumes to me.

Then there are the times where I simply submit a candidate I know from previous experience and have that person hired. :)

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Re: Debt's too high - won't pay
« Reply #53 on: April 06, 2015, 10:45:02 PM »
If you had it in writing, you probably could have sued over them deciding to not take the credits.

I can also sue Dell to uphold the terms of the service contract on laptop repair.  But at the end of the day, the suit costs more than the damages and the time is gone forever.  

Like most big businesses they can steamroll on by with the bury the little guy practice and as long as they don't get so outrageous it is a sure enough win to be taken on contingency by a mass tort firm; the status quo is stable. 
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Re: Debt's too high - won't pay
« Reply #54 on: April 06, 2015, 11:09:56 PM »
Unfortunately, sometimes to get to the manager you have to get past the HR first. And they have a degree on the list of requirements, and if you don't have it, your resume can be round-filed. They know jack about the work and can't really judge experience.

Seems to be pretty much how it works outside of IT... =|

I wouldn't have gotten hired as a park ranger without my bachelors degree. Did I actually use the degree, despite being required? No, it was all OTJ training and experience that ruled the day in that. I also witnessed many of my coworkers (who had been hired on as "temporary" assistant rangers and gained several years of experience) always get passed over for the entry level slots as a permanent employee because they did not have degrees, but a fresh out of school, no experience at all noob would get that job. It's a screwed up system, and it needs to be fixed.

Even some of the trades are getting bad about it. You gotta go to school to break into some of this stuff, despite not actually learning much in school other than the basics.

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