American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs

Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by throwawaymath on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:21PM (#19506167)

> My mentor long ago likened these people to Eloi and the IT grunts to Morlocks. I cannot say I disagree.

Everyone is the hero of their own story. It sounds like your mentor is arrogant, and could use more intellectual humility.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by NullPrefix on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:22PM (#19507291)

Haven't read the book, but ...

>By the year AD 802,701, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi live a banal life of ease on the surface of the earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing, and inventory for the Eloi.

Please explain how is this arrogant?

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by throwawaymath on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:48PM (#19507969)

The mentor is comparing people without technical skills (specifically HR employees) to the fictional Eloi - the species of humans which "live a banal life of ease". Meanwhile he compares those with technical skills (presumably himself included) to that of the Morlocks, which is a species engaged in Important Work that supports the idle Eloi.

Is the condescension and self-importance more clear now? It's an Us versus Them mentality which patronizes other people and looks down on their work.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by kochikame on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:15PM (#19507711)

Because of the clear assumed superiority of coders over all other humans

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by pmiller2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:42PM (#19508329)

I think I’d prefer an easy, but banal lifestyle to one of strenuous toil.

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