Sussex students reject military snub (From The Argus)

I also am against needless wars, but shame on the students union that this ever got as far as a vote. Well done to all those that voted against. To those half-wits that voted 'yes', you should be aiming your ire at corrupt politicians who cause the wars, not the brave men and women that put themselves forward in the defence of this country.

I'm surprised the forces bother with universities...why would they want to employ overgrown adult babies with degrees in media and business studies.
They can't even work out which day is bin day let alone hold down a stressful job with responsibilities.

But the Universal Soldier really is to blame.

When I was a photocopier engineer with a large multinational, we had a vote, company wide, to nominate the worst class of customer. Students Unions were hands down winners. They'd sit on the machines and copy their horrible bits. They'd pour booze into them. Press the 'copy' button over and over when a jam was indicated until they had hundreds of bits of paper jammed solid inside, then kick seven bells out of it because it wouldn't work! The idea that The Royal Navy recruits from among these morons is amazing! Accounts for why ships regularly hit rocks, and why two nuclear subs can collide in the vastness of the Atlantic I suppose!!!!

Oh, and the runners up? Teachers because they considered themselves too clever to beaten by a machine, and would attempt repairs with staff-room cutlery! And policemen because they regularly beat up the machines if they malfunctioned!

TheInsider, Brighton says...
8:08pm Sat 14 Mar 09
I'm surprised the forces bother with universities...why would they want to employ overgrown adult babies with degrees in media and business studies.
They can't even work out which day is bin day let alone hold down a stressful job with responsibilities.

Oh, dear. So not one graduate can hold down a stressful job with responsibilities? Nice generalisation. So no accounting for our hard working student nurses, doctors, midwives, engineers, scientists etc etc etc? How bitter are you?

Muffin Top.....my partner is a nurse and I am talking about the current batch of students on non-vocational courses. Business studies, media studies ect.
However, as an employer responsible for taking on graduates, overseas graduates are of a much better quality.
They tend not to come into work hungover on a Friday, or in fact any day of the week, they are punctual and have an excellent work ethic.
The British born graduates in the last five years have become pre-occupied with taking a gap year after being employed for a year or so which is really off-putting for an employer when we invest more than £3,000 per annum on initial training to discover the employee plans to go off and "find themselves" at a full moon party in Thailand.
We need consistency and staff retention, so in recent years we have employed two thirds overseas to one third British graduates in the hope of setting the bar high for British graduates to compete against.
This lack of willingness to take on stressful jobs is probably the reason why the NHS has to go abroad to employ foreign workers, there is a shortage of midwives in the UK (my partner's best friend left the job as a midwife because of the stress and went into occupational health) and the UK is employing more engineers from overseas as the courses in UK universities have a high percentage of overseas students.