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I hate teachers that don't keep up to date with current events. I am taking a strategic mgmt class. I wouldnt be if it wasnt required. Basically they talk about the benefits of marketing strategies in foriegn countries, mergers/acquisitions, Porters 5 forces model...etc. This is stuff that corporations do on enormous scales. This is not something you can have a class about. Maybe if you were teaching Jack Welsh, the ex-CEO of GE, but we are about to be entry level employees. Do they seriously think we are going to have the ability to make these kinds of decisions anytime soon, if at all in our lives? I doubt that anyone I know will be able to walk into thier job and say, "I think we should merge with our overseas competitor and this is why" and not have thier boss say, "who are you again?" It just pisses me off that the class is meant to teach you "strategy in management." The idea is fucking ludacris to begin with considering in any company there is going to be a unique stratagy for that industry, size, time....whatever. There is never going to be one answer, there is going to be hundreds. Stop trying to teach me common fucking sense in decision making.

Okay, now back to the out of touch teachers. This class I'm ranting about is also taught be a 45ish year old women that probably has not picked up a newspaper in months. She trys to mention impressive facts about companies but her information is so out of date. The other day she said that Land Rover, Aston Martin, and Jaguar are great assets to Ford because of their diversification potential. Ford is trying to sell all three, (actually they just did sell aston martin), because of quality issues and lack of cash flow. When I told her this, which is not new news, she looked puzzled and said i was wrong. This is one of many examples of her stupidity/lack of relevant knowledge.

Just so there isnt any biased suspected, I am getting a pretty good grade in this class. I just really dont see why I have to waste my time.