May 12, 2004

Of course, they graduated with honors and integrity?

What?

WASHINGTON (AP) - At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety, congressional investigators have found. [full story]
And to think I wasted years and years getting my diplomas.

[UPDATE: I see that James has posted a much more enlightened observation with regard to this situation.]

Posted by notGeorge at May 12, 2004 10:34 AM | TrackBack
Comments

My dad used to work in a section of TAFE (sort of like college) where there were lots of Dr. This and Dr. That. The carpark guard who manned the boom gate wrote away to a diploma mill so that he could get some respect from the academics - he was Dr. Smith :-)

Posted by: Ozguru at May 12, 2004 07:51 PM