This whole article reads so strange. Why are we calling a 24 year old an Eagle Scout. Why was he at the same bonfire as a random 16yr old. How are they gonna make felony charges stick for something that doesn’t exactly seem like a malicious assault( just a dumbass) why were there 3 witnesses who saw him do it, then proceeded to stay by the fire.
There is an internal narrative in Scouting that achieving Eagle Scout is a significant life accomplishment that carries respect throughout your adult life, so some people feel compelled to bring it up whenever. Some things I’ve heard:
the police may give you some leeway like its a PBA card.
the military will automatically consider you for higher rank upon induction
it will always be a positive on a resume.
Of course, at the end of the day it’s a youth organization, and bringing up your youth accomplishments past your first interview or college application should be embarrassing at best.
In this case I think it’s just short for “someone who should have known better than to throw random bullshit in a bonfire.”
The eagle scout rank also displays leadership capabilities due to the project you have to organize. Putting it on a resume isn’t going to hurt anything.
That one is on the scout masters. Mine wouldn’t let you progress to the board of review if you didn’t do things yourself.
All my Mom did was show up and helped with snacks and water, while answering construction questions (she used to build houses for habitat for humanity).
Having done hiring before, I can definitively state that is false
If someone decided to use their limited resume space to include Eagle Scout, I would view it negatively. It means they had nothing else relevant they could add
So at a minimim there is at least one interviewer for which it is a negative. Can’t speak for everyone though
Great to know I wouldn’t want to work for your company with an attitude like that. its nice that you’re saving the Eagle Scouts the time, effort, and energy to figure out that your a terrible interviewer and (potentially) manager.
Same. As someone who stands up and runs whole departments, being an Eagle Scout is a minor detail akin to the location of your high school and if you try to pump that up as a qualification I don’t care.
I also say that as someone who was in scouts up to life scout and consciously decided the troop leadership was BS and eagle was meaningless.
It was a shock absorber, which is a cylinder filled with oil and compressed gas. It seems to me like you don’t pick a shock as random bullshit because you likely know it’s an explosion risk covered in warning labels. They come with instructions on how to drill them before disposal. That’d be my guess as to why they’re going with such motivated charges.
Or, the victim’s family is connected to the judiciary system
Or, because it’s the USA, assigning a perpetrator is the only way to get someone’s health insurance to pay out. Ever hear of them suing themselves? It’s to force insurance.
The Eagle Scout designation in your 20s is crazy work. It comes off like a guy who puts his Masters degree abbreviation in his email signature, when he’s 46.
Fuck you Derek, you sit in a cube all day and have been in the workforce for decades. Nobody cares you have an M.A. in Communications.
This whole article reads so strange. Why are we calling a 24 year old an Eagle Scout. Why was he at the same bonfire as a random 16yr old. How are they gonna make felony charges stick for something that doesn’t exactly seem like a malicious assault( just a dumbass) why were there 3 witnesses who saw him do it, then proceeded to stay by the fire.
Even stranger is their phrasing:
“Served”? The article is acting like it’s military service
He’s a grown man who permanently maimed a teenage girl due to his own recklessness
There is an internal narrative in Scouting that achieving Eagle Scout is a significant life accomplishment that carries respect throughout your adult life, so some people feel compelled to bring it up whenever. Some things I’ve heard:
Of course, at the end of the day it’s a youth organization, and bringing up your youth accomplishments past your first interview or college application should be embarrassing at best.
In this case I think it’s just short for “someone who should have known better than to throw random bullshit in a bonfire.”
The eagle scout rank also displays leadership capabilities due to the project you have to organize. Putting it on a resume isn’t going to hurt anything.
Or that one of your parents do
When I was in scouts, there were a lot of kids that had their parents doing 90% of the work
That’s called a “paper eagle” and they’re pretty easy to figure out.
That one is on the scout masters. Mine wouldn’t let you progress to the board of review if you didn’t do things yourself.
All my Mom did was show up and helped with snacks and water, while answering construction questions (she used to build houses for habitat for humanity).
Having done hiring before, I can definitively state that is false
If someone decided to use their limited resume space to include Eagle Scout, I would view it negatively. It means they had nothing else relevant they could add
So at a minimim there is at least one interviewer for which it is a negative. Can’t speak for everyone though
Great to know I wouldn’t want to work for your company with an attitude like that. its nice that you’re saving the Eagle Scouts the time, effort, and energy to figure out that your a terrible interviewer and (potentially) manager.
Yes. Just because of the resume thing.
Doesn’t sound like it’d be a culture fit anyway
Companies have different cultures. No one is a fit for every company. Point is it would be a negative in plenty of cases
Same. As someone who stands up and runs whole departments, being an Eagle Scout is a minor detail akin to the location of your high school and if you try to pump that up as a qualification I don’t care.
I also say that as someone who was in scouts up to life scout and consciously decided the troop leadership was BS and eagle was meaningless.
It was a shock absorber, which is a cylinder filled with oil and compressed gas. It seems to me like you don’t pick a shock as random bullshit because you likely know it’s an explosion risk covered in warning labels. They come with instructions on how to drill them before disposal. That’d be my guess as to why they’re going with such motivated charges.
Or, the victim’s family is connected to the judiciary system
Or, because it’s the USA, assigning a perpetrator is the only way to get someone’s health insurance to pay out. Ever hear of them suing themselves? It’s to force insurance.
The Eagle Scout designation in your 20s is crazy work. It comes off like a guy who puts his Masters degree abbreviation in his email signature, when he’s 46.
Fuck you Derek, you sit in a cube all day and have been in the workforce for decades. Nobody cares you have an M.A. in Communications.