seriously, when can they really learn

Good Lord. Next time I will explicitly set the 'sarcasm' tags. There are too many things wrong with my argument to even begin to suspend disbelief.

Which means the employee is under paid.... SUCKER!

No. That would be wrong. A worker should maximize efficiency by discovering the best way to achieve maximum pay with minimal work. That is what economists say the company should be doing and since companies are now people and workers are people that's what workers should do. In fact doing it any other way flies in the face of the "Free Market" and therefore maximizing efficiency is both an ethical and moral imperative.

Just follow 3 simple rules; they vote in favor of corporations, vote in favor of the gov't, and vote against the individual. You will be able to predict the court more often than not.

That is why you use split data sets. You calibrate on one half, or less, of historical data and then verify against data you did NOT calibrate against.

Hmmm... let's see. The English classes I took help me write on a daily basis. Accounting came in handy when I worked for a non-profit that had to do fund raising; I use Psychology, Sociology, and Political Science daily; the art classes I look help me judge the usability of web sites, I took Differential Equations which came in handy when I worked for an Environmental Engineering firm, foreign languages gave me a better grasp of grammar and and foreign cultures, my Physics classes give be a better grasp on electrical and electronics concepts (which is handy if you want to work with hardware), Statistics comes in handy when I have to prepare quantitative reports, and Chemistry was also good to have when I worked for an Environmental Engineering firm.

None of those were 'core' classes but the fulfilled part of my graduation requirements. You had to have a certain amount of hours in Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Arts, and Literature at my Uni. I would probably not have studied them unless I had been told to. A well rounded education is priceless.

The intro to accounting class I took comes in handy understanding loans, taxes, and my household budget.

So what happened prior to those 10 years? If I did not have my current background I would not recognize how many bad ideas under new names are constantly being recycled and see enough parallels between "ground breaking paradigm shifting!" new tech and the basics I learned in school, about things invented in the 60's and 70's, to rarely even crack a manual. Usually I only read manuals and forums when I think a feature is broken to ensure I have a good idea of its capabilities.

"But stuff like needing to take PE classes where 1 CLASS costs way more then buying a 2 YEAR gym membership is not needed"
Have you seen the obesity rate It's bad in the US and the rest of the world is catching up. In addition there is evidence exercise increase productivity:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

"The jack of all trades in the IT world is much less more valuable than it was 20 years ago"

The push for 'DevOps' seems to contradict you.

Fertilizer will feed you. Rockets won't. We have all these plans for space colonies, all of which rely on some sort of manure to feed the colonist. Funny, isn't it.

Racism

build cargo rockets that splash down in the sea. Even the N. Koreans can build rockets that splashdown in the sea.

The guy has only been on the job 6 months and we want to give him a report card. Can't we at least wait one year? Changing a large corporation is like turning an oil tanker, you have to plan far ahead, take your time, and be patient.