By Anonymous - 20/01/2010 15:59 - United States

Today, I lost my job to a girl that graduated with the same bachelor's degree from the same college as me. She also got a master's in an unrelated field. I've been working there 7 months, and her master's in maths apparently makes her a better athletic trainer than me. FML
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carrotpuke 0

She's probably hotter than you.

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equinoxe_fml 2

You're an idiot if you think your degree is the only thing that counts to qualify for a job.

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Stevenopolis 0

Having bigger boobs and a willingness to sleep with the boss probably didn't hurt her either.

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damnrosi 0

1) getting a masters in mathmatics is rather impressive, so she has that going for her, even if its somewhat irrelevant 2) graduate schools teach you a different way of thinking, comprehending, and interacting, they challenge the mind, just like collages and Universities. The math may not qualify for the job, but the master's degree means that she has expanded her mind, and looks at things in a different (and most often), more logical and better way.

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ggallegos13 2

but does that make her a better athletic trainer? I don't think so. who would you rather have training you, a person that has probably been doing athletics his/her entire life? or a person who got some stupid math degree?

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JoeATC 0

You guys might be missing the point with athletic training. This is not a meat head, gym rat teaching you a workout. It's sports medicine recognizing injury and treating medically. This OP may be using the term out of place or everyone is misunderstanding them. If it is sports med then the new girl def should not have gotten the job

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idkweird 0

#84: As I said up in an earlier comment. Nobody knows what the new person's experience is. My friend has been doing assistant softball coaching/recruiting at the college level for years, but she's trying to get her masters in International conflict resolution. A masters says nothing about the person's work experience. Id expect my friend to get a head coaching job at a University over someone that has worked there for 7 months, tbh. I doubt it was just the masters that lost the OP their job.

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AGGoddess 2

Her degree does not say everything about how experienced she is in the field. She may have a lot more work experience than you. You mentioned you have been working there for 7 months, so your supervisor and other co-workers should know what your skills are by now. Maybe they don't think you are qualified for the job you are applying for, so they chose to keep you with the position you currently have there instead.

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randomaccountnam 0

She's a woman, so they don't have to pay her as much.

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ozymandias_fml 0

She has a master's degree, you don't. What more needs to be said? She is a hard worker, and has shown that she is willing go above and beyond. You? You seem to have settled for a mediocre job and a single BA -- one that either is irrelevant to the field you are in, or was a joke to get.

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saaaammmmm 0

Not everybody wants the same things out of life. It is not in good taste to insult anybody's honest work, regardless of what it is or who they are.

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talaina 2

Personally I'm a little sick of the way that the standards for education keep getting upped. I'm about to graduate with my BA, and I don't intend to go for an MA anytime soon. I am a hard worker, very motivated and definitely not looking to "settle" --and I love academia--, but graduate school just isn't going to be realistic for me right now. Grad school is expensive, takes time, and is a good way to become overqualified for the kinds of in-between jobs you might need every once in a while (probably the "mediocre" jobs that you sneer at). It's true, unfortunately, that BAs don't seem to mean very much anymore, and I've heard of this sort of thing happening a lot, but it's completely out of line for you to assume that a person is lazy or unmotivated simply because they stopped at their BA. A BA is still four years of education and four years of hard work. When you're writing the $40,000/yr checks I need to get into a decent grad program in my field (and I'm sure I'm not the only one), then you can decide that I'm lazy.

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KRUSH_fml 0

young fit attractive women make better trainers than ugly fat ones. fact.

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yanksby7 6

He said athletic trainer..NOT personal trainer. Athletic trainers are highly qualified medical specialists that serve athletes in the assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries. You generally see us on the sidelines of sporting events at almost every high school, college and professional setting in the country. We have to have at LEAST a bachelors degree in the field, pass a national certification, and in many states, be licensed. We are NOT a personal trainer...who can get their certification with 10 bucks and a few online courses.

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darkmis1 17

Well maybe you shouldn't have stopped at your bachelors and gotten a masters.

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camsham86 0

Clearly, she is more intelligent than you are...OP, do you mean the new girl has a Masters Degree in Mathematics? WTF is "maths?" A Masters Degree trumps a BA, especially a lousy BA.

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guitardedman 0

"Maths".. really? its either Mathematics or Math. sorry to be THAT guy, i just keep seeing this and its stupid. its not like a spelling error like you were typing to fast and used maht instead of math, its pluralizing something that already represents any quantity. Like "chineses" or "fishes".

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repyourcliche 0

how is it stupid exactly? just because you are too ignorant to understand it does not automatically make it "stupid".

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42billybob 5

the fact that you only acknowledge academic credentials suggests that you're lacking in some other areas. frankly a piece of paper doesn't get you a job at all, it just prevents you from getting one if you don't have it. i'd ask why they were accepting interviews while you were already hired. it's not economically practical to hire & fire people as soon as someone with a better education shows up. it takes time to get a new person trained up, it takes time to grow to trust someone new, it costs money if there are ****-ups during this process. an employer replaces someone if the starting period is THAT worth it. maybe you weren't pulling your weight (and i don't mean that in the fat sense... although people don't have faith in their athletic trainers if they're grossly out of shape, it discourages clients).

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