Do you believe this crap?!?! I got my masters from the University of Phoenix and...

I work with a girl who is doing the same thing. I know if I try to tell her it is a scam, she will never believe me and would probably never speak to me again. It breaks my heart to see her paying all that money and studying so diligently.

that is some really fucking up shit! this country! damn this country! they tell you to get an education. They accredit these kinds of institutions giving you the impression they're legit. But yet! they will fuckin reject it!! damn this country!!!!!!!!!!

that is the thing, it is accredited. So why the hell did she laugh and ridicule my diploma?

Because it's online. You didn't physically attend a real college and probably didn't put in the amount of time people would for the degree. Online degrees can be earned in months, maybe even weeks compared to 4 years at a college. Some employers will look beyond the paper because they want someone who put the time into it.
It sucks, especially if you spent money on it, but it's true.


ya online degrees dont count.Ask me.I know how fake institutions are run and how they offer degree.you can still use your degree by starting from lowest position in a company and moving upwards

I did a masters in baking.

I am now a Masterbaker!

Mmmm... YOU DON'T GET IT.

Maybe that's WHY you spent all that money getting the modern equivalent of a diploma from the back of a pack of matches?

Just something to think about...

Because online degrees are not highly regarded by the business community...


why is that? The course work is the same as if you went to an onsite school. I dont get it.

I received my BFA back in 1975 from a local, well-respected state university, and in the decades since that momentous day I have NEVER needed to wave it in front of someone to "prove" my intelligence. The woman the OP encountered simply has a very skewed [and commonly-shared perception] of what actually constitutes an "education".

By definition, education is the acquisition of knowledge through a strengthening of the body and mind... from whatever source. True knowledge does not [and never has] required a heavy piece of paper to document individual intellect; rather, it is an artificial standard by which the corporate, judicial, political, medical and educational structures use to measure "worthy" candidates for inclusion. Proof? If this cherished practice had any genuine merit, then why are there thousands of PHD's seeking employment today? An old adage suggests that the best cream always rises to the top of the milk - but not so in the actual business world. People always have -and always will- use subjective reasoning when hiring an individual and a degree only makes it easier for them to justify their decisions. It's a bit of a CYA process: if a degreed employee fails spectacularly, he "went to a crummy school or was a "C-average" student"; if a non-degreed person fails... "well, you get what you pay for, right?"

People seem to forget who accredited the ORIGINAL professors: names such as Socrates, Aristotle and Plato. Socrates claimed never to have accepted payment for teaching as he felt knowledge should be shared freely. His avowed profession? A stonemason... like his Father, Sophroniscus. This makes the condemnation [and ultimate execution] of Socrates even more dynamic: his dramatic decline began when his friend Chaerephon asked the Oracle of Delphi [itelf a false-God] if there was any man wiser than Socrates. The Oracle said, "NO!" Socrates laughed at the absurdity of this lofty proclamation.

You see, Socrates knew [even then] that those men who claim to be the most wise were really nothing of the kind and merely poseurs. He then proved his case by questioning the leading minds of Athens and allowed them to publicly prove their own ignorance. These powerful people then turned upon Socrates, accused him of corrupting youth Athenean minds, and the result was a cup of Hemlock and swift death. LESSON TO REMEMBER: powerful people do NOT like to be reminded of how insignificant they truly are! The irony in all this is that the Oracle was actually correct: Socrates WAS more intelligent by realising his own limitations and not pretending to be something he wasn't.

And: although no one ever accredited Socrates or handed him an ancient form of sheepskin [after all: the Oracle said no one was qualified to do so!] his innate wisdom, intellect and knowledge of all around him survives to this day and he is still held as the standard by which truer ethics are judged.

My point of all this? TRUE wisdom cannot be measured. Not by any test, or formal written or oral dissertation. This is why you may sometimes hear of the wisest words springing from a man with no formal education or from the mouth of a small child.

So, my advice to our disheartened OP is to consider his diploma just another lesson learned and understand that he is perhaps a great deal more intelligent than that scrap of paper could ever prove.

it is supposed to be a legit diploma; it is an online deg. I got an MBA. I went to apply for a job at a bank as a financial officer. They asked me for a copy of my degree. When I presented it to the interviewer, the bitch laughed and said this diploma is a joke. Wtf? I spent tons of cash getting this on-line degree. How is it a joke? I dont get it.

it is supposed to be a legit diploma; it is an online deg. I got an MBA. I went to apply for a job at a bank as a financial officer. They asked me for a copy of my degree. When I presented it to the interviewer, the bitch laughed and said this diploma is a joke. Wtf? I spent tons of cash getting this on-line degree. How is it a joke? I dont get it.

it is supposed to be a legit diploma; it is an online deg. I got an MBA. I went to apply for a job at a bank as a financial officer. They asked me for a copy of my degree. When I presented it to the interviewer, the bitch laughed and said this diploma is a joke. Wtf? I spent tons of cash getting this on-line degree. How is it a joke? I dont get it.

are you a mexican or african american.. i think your degree is from Canterbury University from the diploma mill bro i have a master degrees in computer science and it took me 8 some years to get it.. there is no fucken way you got a masters degree in 1 year.. i am positive you bought your degree online loser you fell for the scam jaja now i am laughing in your face...

up she goes

Stuck up Bitch!

I did a masters in baking.

I am now a Masterbaker!

that is some really fucking up shit! this country! damn this country! they tell you to get an education. They accredit these kinds of institutions giving you the impression they're legit. But yet! they will fuckin reject it!! damn this country!!!!!!!!!!

This thread has a bunch of jerk offs who need new jokes.

OP,

You should have done what I did, I got's Me a 100% Genuine Official G.E.D. and now I'ma Millionaire ...lol

*Actually I am a Millionaire and I really do have a G.E.D.

go ahead and look me up on the net.

Degree's are what You can make out of them, I parlayed mine into a very nice lifestyle for Myself and Family.

But then again, I'm a Go-Getter, I have a full Military Career with 6 Combat Tours and Built a Chain of Hot Dog restaurants and sold for profit

Now I own several public companies including 2 Gold Mines. not bad for 44 years of age ;-)

Just because it's accredited doesn't mean that anyone has to take it seriously.

The WNBA is a legit basketball league, but who really cares?

That's your University of Phoenix diploma... the WNBA.