An MBA?- Your out of your mind!

I will have my business degree wrapped up on monday and was entertaining the thought of entering the MBA program at Gardner-Webb university..... until today. Our parent company in Canada must be hemorrhaging money, so our division here in South Carolina was graced with the presence of consultant (soon to be a full time employee) from Hong Kong. During the course of a meeting he made reference to Classic Coca-Cola having Cocaine in the soft drink to "pep" people up. Thinking of "Classic" Coca- Cola of a somewhat recent new name, I spoke up "Yes I have heard of that urban legend, but I thought it was always back in the 1920's and only in trace amounts."
He gets huffy and says:"NO, NO, TODAY THEY DO THAT!! I ask him:" Are you sure because all hell would break lose in this country if that was so? He replies:" Yes, Yes I'm positive and that bottle water ( pointing at a colleagues bottle water) has only tap water in it!"
The point is: If a lot of companies are like this and hire nut case consultants, only to repeat the process over again five years later
a person's career could be summed up as watching a parade of clowns go by!
That's it I'm getting into education- stick a fork in me I'm done!
God only knows what he is being paid!
Coca-Cola if you are out there and want to persue this guy for slander - get in touch, I would be more than willing to be a material witness, heck I have nothing to lose that outfit I work for is withering on the vine!

 

I guarantee that there are nut cases in academia as well. For example remember the Berkeley math professor that retired to Montana so that he could pursue his true passion full time, making mail bombs.

 

Bill,
Wow, I really enjoyed that one!!! It took me a while to compose myself- that humor is sharp! I wonder if the Unabomber ever considered being a consultant...maybe a study could find a correlation between Mercury tainted Sushi being washed down with large amounts of Coca-Cola or tap water and mailing packages with no return address???
- keep up the good humor
Buckwheat

 

Of course the second thing the consultant mentioned to you is true. Many bottled waters are actually filtered water from the public water system.

 

Okay, during the filtration process used in many bottled waters isn't cocaine injected into the water? Then, after filtration, isn't even more cocaine injected into the water?

Maybe I have it backwards. Perhaps it's the drug cartels that are injecting water into their cocaine..............immediately before selling it to consultants from Hong Kong.

Whatever. All I know is that bottled water, coca-cola, cocaine, and consultants from Hong Kong, indeed, exist. Is it any wonder, then, that one (or more) finds its way into one (or more) of the other?

Finally, Buckwheat, consider yourself lucky. At least you didn't get a couple of hours worth of "we never landed on the moon.....it was all a hoax".

 

Urban Legend Debunking Page...

Your Urban Legends debunking source is
<www.snopes.com>

For Coca-cola, they write,
"How much cocaine was in that "mere trace" is impossible to say, but we do know that by 1902 it was as little as 1/400 of a grain of cocaine per ounce of syrup. Coca-Cola didn't become completely cocaine-free until 1929, but there scarcely any of the drug left in the drink by then."
<http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp>

--Orson

 

What!?! There's no cocaine in Coke? Geese. I'm sticking with Pepsi. At least they started with a good thing and stuck with it, instead of changing their formula halfway through.

By the way, Buckwheat, (and, I hate to get back on topic with this but...) I don't think I follow your logic. You see a highly paid consultant with an MBA, who is obviously an idiot, come into your company and you turn this into a reason to not go to graduate school? For me, this would be all that much more of an incentive to get an MBA. First, if that idiot can do it, anyone can. Second, I wouldn't want to be upstaged by an idiot. I would want to out-perform the idiot in every way: job performance, technical knowledge, education, etc. That's just the way I would approach the situation.

Steve

 

Sounds like something I might say!

 

Steve,
I will be going to graduate school but I will seek a Master's in the education field. I guess what I'm trying to say is : If a company pours good money into consultants like this one and there are hundreds of other companies out there doing the same thing, then why spend a lifetime of aggravation in this kind of enviroment. As to this consultant's educational background- no telling what it is, but it might be safe to say he rifled through
every ceral box on supermarket shelves until he got the necessary degree!
take care,
Buckwheat

 

Re: Urban Legend Debunking Page...

Supposedly US paper money contains cocaine. Apparantly it gets transfered in ATMs and counting machines. Virtually every bill older than a month has cocaine embedded in its fibers.

 

Pretty soon we will all get to go to jail for possession of a controlled substance in our wallets and purses.

John