Second year of my MBA started May 26. Week five of class and I'm already tired of it. Operations Management final tonight at 6 EDT. Test counts for about 75% of the grade.

Cpk, Reorder Point, QPIC, Lean, Kanban vs MRP. And of course, 6 Sigma. Too much alphabet soup for me.

My MBA dream could end here. I could use some encouragement from those of you who've gone before.

I have an MBA in Operations and Technology Mgmt.

Easiest 2 years of my life. It'll be no problem.

victor,

I can manage the technical/calculation side. Except that statistics class was more than 25 years ago for me. I'm concerned that the prof is a "gotcha" kind of guy where he asks about a specific word or phrase from the textbook. I can't remember that level of detail without an actual application. I'm okay with broad concepts.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Good luck... I'm sure you'll do fine..

I've taken some of theses classes but didn't pursue the degree... should prolly finish up some day...

"Cpk, Reorder Point, QPIC, Lean, Kanban vs MRP. And of course, 6 Sigma."

Holy crap...that's all there is to being an MBA? I've used all those at one time or another. I'm a 6 sigma greenbelt and was working on my black when I left the industry. My current industy does not use it. 6 sigma quality is not even close to being good enough for it...LOL.

camper....not putting you down...just surprised at the level of stuff I seem to know..kinda of an "I'll be damned" kind of moment.

that's all there really is to operations.

of course you also have the mandatory finance, accounting, marketing etc etc courses.....

I personally really enjoyed international marketing. But I'll likely never use it again in my life...

Chief barely finished high school what with all the whiskey that needed drinking...

What's an 'MBA'?

j/k,

Sounds like a bit of student burn-out. Take the test, you'll do fine. Afterwards, try and schedule something fun.

"of course you also have the mandatory finance, accounting, marketing etc etc courses..... "

Pshaw!!!

🙂

I personally found it very easy. But all my schooling before that had been biochem, genetics, biophysics etc etc....

accounting is just plus and minus at that point....

Jade,

I've about decided that having an MBA is all about the buzz words.

Tru dat.... the same basic concepts get re-invented every five years or so... you just have to keep up with the current nomenclature (buzz words) so you can regurgitate them in meetings and converse with the young hot shot KPMG/E&Y/etc. consultants to reinforce your credibility.... and keep your job.

^ I knew what nomenclature meant

I just couldn't do it man....

I have been through a lot of that training. What a bunch of bull**** (6 sigma and all that ****).

I don't care how you quantify it. You CAN NOT TEACH COMMON SENSE!

Good luck though. Every one of those concepts is just an attempt to either circumvent or change idiots. Hate to tell you, but it is not possible. Wow, what a pessimist I have become.

You can teach common sense. They still won't understand it but you can bill at $300/hour for the class!

true.. so true

Gringo

Truer words have never been spoken.........and it doesn't make you a pessimist.I'd call you a realist if anything.

The sad thing is usually the person trying to teach common sense couldn't pour piss out of a boot.

Ron

When you're billing at $300/hour you just buy new boots!

^

LOL.

I have sat through probably 300 of hours of that ****. I just wanted to kill the speaker every time. 9 out of 10 times the instructor couldn't even answer a legit question.

Amazing.

It took me a while to actually realize that the person teaching the {method}, really was trying to teach common sense. Usually, they didn't have enough (common sense)to realize what they were doing.

Robots.