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Why GSD students make shitty employees

mdler

can someone answer this for me

 
Nov 28, 06 5:45 pm
mdler

sorry...I figured that I could resolve some of my insecurities about my architectural education by talking shit about another school

Nov 28, 06 6:00 pm  · 
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snooker

mdler....your not stinky are you?

Nov 28, 06 6:00 pm  · 
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mdler

no.

Nov 28, 06 6:07 pm  · 
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WonderK

Ha ha. Yale Blows!

(for those you inclined to take this personally, it is only a joke from an old thread...)

Nov 28, 06 9:59 pm  · 
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Katze

MIT blows bigger chunks :)

Nov 28, 06 10:08 pm  · 
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cj w.

mdler

just wondering why you mentioned if they make bad employees.. is this a real life experience?

Nov 28, 06 11:55 pm  · 
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mdler

yep

Nov 29, 06 12:11 am  · 
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mdler

apparently DAAP makes good employees, bad designers


GSD makes good designers, bad employees??








Nov 29, 06 12:12 am  · 
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cj w.

umm what is DAAP if i may ask? and how bad is bad for GSD?

Nov 29, 06 12:16 am  · 
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switters

mdler, but what about the kids who went to UC and Harvard?

Nov 29, 06 8:35 am  · 
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ThriftyAcres

the worse of both worlds?

Nov 29, 06 10:23 am  · 
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archtopus

cj w, DAAP stands for the College of Design Architecture Art and Planning at UC.

Nov 29, 06 12:05 pm  · 
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sporadic supernova

again ... very reminiscent of "yale blows"

hi wonderk ... been a while ...

Nov 29, 06 12:47 pm  · 
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Yale does indeed blow. It's kept on blowing for a while now.

And I don't know about employees, but the one I've met sure made a shitty employer

Nov 29, 06 1:55 pm  · 
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TED

Why GSD students make shitty employees?

1] GSD grads are only there to use your firm as a bridge before they open their own practice
2] GSD grads are their to steel your clients
3] GSD grads think they are better/smarter than you and all your staff
4] GSD grads think they deserve more compensation because they have a gsd degree

Nov 29, 06 2:26 pm  · 
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I wouldnt steel anyone, but concreting clients sounds like a good idea

all this time I thought it was the mandatory metamucil in our coffee cups...

Nov 29, 06 2:41 pm  · 
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AP

or maybe the x-acto-lax?

Nov 29, 06 2:45 pm  · 
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Chili Davis

Why Architects make shitty employees?

1] Architects are only there to use your firm as a bridge before they open their own practice (which will inevitably fail, forcing them to come crawling back)
2] Architectsare their to lose your money
3] Architects think they are better/smarter than you and all your staff (which is true)
4] Architects think they deserve more compensation because they have an architecture degree which took 8 years to complete, 3 1/2 years of internship, passed AREs, a license, and $50K in student loans.

Nov 29, 06 2:48 pm  · 
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anarchitech

I don't think "make shitty employees" is only limited to GSD. I am pretty sure it is more or less anyone who went Ivy.

Are they really "better designers"? I thought they were just really good bullshitters. They hand off all the rendering work to cheap chinese labor- they only do massing models in SketchUp! and talk really fluffly like, and then... expect the big money for it while they go on MSN and talk about how amazing work and a designer they are.

but... um... not like I would know... *ahem*

Nov 29, 06 2:52 pm  · 
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marlowe

Lets not hate on GSD...Although, I do have a few momorable stories from GSD grads in our office. Like the guy who did all his plan details for a medical office building in photoshop. They were all stunning little works of art that he spent 2.5 weeks on which should have taken him 2 days to do in autocad..

My observations has been that ivy grad's in our firm tend to position themselves early on as "designers" and seem to have little interest in the technical side of the profession. Granted, it's unfair to generalize becuase you always end up short changing someone....It frustrates the hell out of me trying to watch a ivy school grad with 2 masters degrees use SketchUp for construction drawings....

Nov 29, 06 7:55 pm  · 
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mdler

i worked with a GSD grad who basically said that they shouldnt build models because they went to GSD

Nov 29, 06 8:04 pm  · 
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holz.box

did that guy not realize that's what the majority of JIZZ-DEE grads do when they go to work for firms like OMA, H + dM, etc?
frickin idiot!
he really should be thankful he has a job. My first job out of school, i interviewed w/ 20 firms. none of the "top tier" firms i interviewed with made an offer - humbling, to say the least. could be worse, he could be painting a bathroom for his boss at a shitty firm, with the turd standing over his shoulder telling him he's not painting correctly, and that he could do a better job himself (well, since you aren't doing anything but looking at gay porn anyway... why dontcha?)

Nov 29, 06 10:48 pm  · 
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Ms Beary

whoa

Nov 29, 06 10:53 pm  · 
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switters

relax, all these schools are full of slackers and stars. throw whatever school name you want in these conversations/comments, but the results/insults are the same. archinect should be more than a little pysch ward for architects. get over it.

Nov 29, 06 11:18 pm  · 
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upside

jeez. any irony here evaporated quickly

Nov 29, 06 11:49 pm  · 
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