Douchebag of the Day: Jonathan Eakman
Follow the saga of the guy who tried to delay (and ultimately evade) requirements for business school, with messages like this:
Had some family issues and haven’t been able to get the last Corp Finance study prep test done. Be cool on this. In my last job, I dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget, so I know what I’m doing. Thanks for your help/understanding.
Above the Law has the full exchange.
Be cool on this.
I’m thinking that this feature needs to become a regular one. So many douches out there…
the bhead (a31060) — 10/19/2009 @ 9:38 pmThere are many priceless quotes but I’m going with this one:
Having the police there to bar him from the campus is a close second.
DRJ (f462b4) — 10/19/2009 @ 9:56 pmThe kid dodged responsibility for a billion dollar budget in his last job. He knows what he’s doing.
Why couldn’t they give him a break….or ten?
daleyrocks (718861) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:03 pmJust when you thought you knew the most arrogant shmuck on the planet…….
Gina (d38bf6) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:05 pmI dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget, so I know what I’m doing.
God, not another ACORN story. This is getting tiresome.
political agnostic (c3850b) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:12 pmOkay, that was funny…….
Gina (d38bf6) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:19 pm“I dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget, so I know what I’m doing.”
I see a place in the Obama Administration in his future.
daleyrocks (718861) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:20 pmStudent: You can’t fail me for not doing the homework and not taking the tests. I know the stuff. Just ask me a question.
Professor: Did you follow the rules outlined in your syllabus?
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:30 pmI see a place in the Obama Administration in his future.
That was also funny…
I agree with #1, this should be a regular feature. With this administration and it’s legion of zombie followers, the possibilities would be limitless.
Dana (863a65) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:31 pmdaleyrocks – I see a place in the Obama Administration in his future. FTW
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:33 pmI think academia should face legions upon legions of Mr. Eakmans every semester at every college everywhere. I think he has the right idea about who should be accommodating who.
The whole rotten dirty socialist system forfeited any expectation of a respectful tone many many moons ago.
No?
happyfeet (f62c43) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:45 pmDoes this sound familiar?
DRJ (f462b4) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:49 pmOh gosh, DRJ, I forgot the commenter’s name… but points for remembering it was a commenter here who said something to the effect that he ‘didn’t have to read the book to know…’???
Dana (863a65) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:51 pmI’m actually thinking of 3 people. The dude with the 50 careers, the dude with the 50 banned sock-puppets and the “Conservatives are anti-semites” dude.
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 10/19/2009 @ 10:56 pmhf,
Eakman’s problem is with the Business School not the Law School. He even claimed this is “how the grownups over at the law school communicate” … and given your link, maybe he’s right.
DRJ (f462b4) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:05 pmI like how he missed that it was an Associate Dean – not the admissions office – that was telling him they would yank his admission…
Never piss off the people who sign your paycheck, deliver your paycheck, or are going to be helping you get a bigger paycheck.
Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:17 pmI know I just mean generally speaking my sympathies don’t go to the SMU people. I used to live across the freeway from them, which has nothing to do with anything. There was a little place called Zanzibar I used to go get white chocolate cheesecake. I don’t think it’s there anymore. If I went back to look it would probably just make me feel sad.
happyfeet (f62c43) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:26 pmHe was just talking to dumb secretaries. Notice all the different names?
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:27 pmI don’t think those were secretaries, John.
And I hear you, hf. SMU seems to have more than its share of people who love it or hate it.
DRJ (f462b4) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:32 pmI forgot the /snark
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:38 pmsorry bout that.
Sorry about that, John. I’m terrible at recognizing sarcasm on the internet.
Anyway, I suspect he knew who he was talking to but it would be even worse if he thought they were secretaries. It’s not good to mistreat people just because you think you can get away with it.
DRJ (f462b4) — 10/19/2009 @ 11:44 pmI missed the line where he accuses the business school of being “racist, sexist and homophobic..” – oh wait, that was the standard line at MY law school.
Californio (4a94c5) — 10/20/2009 @ 12:21 amAnd what exactly does that mean? Did he dodge responsibility for doing the work involved in preparing the budget? Or responsibility for submitting a budget that was obviously defective in some way? Or responsibility when actual results fell below that of the budget projections?
To me, his quote doesn’t match what someone with actual experience would say… perhaps some puffery going on… not that an admissions officer at b-school would ever detect it.
steve sturm (369bc6) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:17 amThat guy has a great future as a trial lawyer. Right up to the point he gets disbarred. I think I’ve already seen him on TV with asbestos lawsuit ads.
Mike K (2cf494) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:18 ami will say this. it seems to me though that they indulged him way too much anyway. they should have dropped the hammer on him long before they did. But yes, he comes off as a major tool.
And i will say something un-pc, too. what kind of idiot goes to SMU law anyway? “Hey, I want to pay ivy league prices for a non-ivy education.” Seriously, find a nice state school, get in it, pay half the bucks. when i was looking at law schools there were only 3 private institutions i looked at: Harvard, Yale, Stanford. Unless you are getting into that kind of A+++ reputation school, the extra money to go to private law school is just not worth it.
Of course there are some snobs who think that somehow that all private schools are better. They are called suckers. No, the only time it is worth shelling out the really big money is if you are going to the top 3 schools in america, and maybe not even then.
A.W. (b1db52) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:35 amAlthough I feel like I’ve raised my daughter with good values and understanding, I am somewhat apprehensive about her going to college next year – if this is the kind of trash-talking graduates leave with.
Seriously, don’t tase me bro.
Corwin (ea9428) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:46 amI waited until the middle of the second semester to let out my inner asshole. Say this for Eakman: he’s proactive.
gp (72be5d) — 10/20/2009 @ 6:06 amI’m more interested in that “billion dollar budget” he pawned off on some other unfortunate soul. Let’s hear all about that specific company, and said douchebag’s sterling efforts to ruin it’s future prospects. The company’s response to that one would be hilarious, I think.
Dmac (5ddc52) — 10/20/2009 @ 6:26 amI think we just found out what Hax has been up to.
JD (d467d3) — 10/20/2009 @ 6:33 am“I dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget…”
Sounds like he didn’t get the job …
Lord Nazh (899dce) — 10/20/2009 @ 8:46 amThis guy’s a total douche. I heard about this from a former classmate of mine the day it happened. The campus police were there because of disparaging remarks and/or threats he made to the Associate Dean of the school.
The story leaked because he published it on his Facebook page, which is oh, by the way public (as of yesterday) feel free to visit it and let him know just how big of a douche he is. For some reason he’s wearing this as a badge of honor and is proud he did this. Nevermind it’s plastered all over the internet now and any simple Google search by a future employer will pull his charade up.
What an idiot.
[note: fished from spam filter. –Stashiu]
SMUCoxGraduate (806b89) — 10/20/2009 @ 9:00 amAnd he votes.
PatAZ (9d1bb3) — 10/20/2009 @ 9:31 amBeing nasty to people he thinks are “just” secretaries is really going to cost him in the real world. He is going to be so screwed. (not in a fun way, either)
Bar Sinister (d2caac) — 10/20/2009 @ 9:47 amI thought the best part was his statement about not pulling some kind of undergraduate student test on a graduate student–too funny.
Rochf (ae9c58) — 10/20/2009 @ 9:51 amThe only possible way this story can end is for Eakman to be elected to the United States Senate.
JVW (d1215a) — 10/20/2009 @ 10:49 amHey – is there any chance this is a hoax/urban legend? Seriously – I can’t imagine a real person is this stupid.
Keith B (5018dd) — 10/20/2009 @ 1:49 pmKeith…stay away from politicians…their narcissism clouds all sorts of personal interactions filters.
AD - RtR/OS! (3b92f0) — 10/20/2009 @ 2:44 pmI was reading that and found myself wondering if that is what timb is like in real life.
JD (8ffdb5) — 10/20/2009 @ 3:04 pm#36 Keith B.:
Excuse me for saying so, but you are one damn lucky son of gun.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 10/20/2009 @ 4:16 pmNo seriously. This person is a student. There were probably at least 100 other people they could have taken besides him. Whatever the criteria they used, they could have selected someone else just as good as him. I am a physician and I know for me and for every single person in my medical school they could have selected someone just as good and to be honest I don’t know why any of my classmates or I was lucky enough to be selected. None of us is stupid. I think we are all pretty smart. But there are a lot of smart people in this world.
It would never have occurred to me or to my classmates to show such disrespect to people – especially to people who have significant influence over my success or failure. Remember he has not started school yet – it would be easy for them to say thank you but we revoke your invitation.
I can’t imagine insulting the secretaries and deans at medical school at any time, much less before I have even formally matriculated! Forget about just being a decent person! What happens if they pull my acceptance? I just have a hard time believing someone would be so stupid as to risk something so important.
Keith B (5018dd) — 10/20/2009 @ 4:24 pmKeith B
Perhaps he is just a sterling example of the “self-esteem” movement, and is thoroughly convinced that everything he does is golden.
AD - RtR/OS! (3b92f0) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:00 pmAW, the reason why people apply to private law schools that aren’t Harvard, etc, is that they couldn’t get into the state schools. My daughter lost out on UCLA law school when her friend and suite mate at USC undergrad was accepted to UCLA with a lower LSAT and GPA. She was Hispanic.
Keith, I agree but there are weird people, many in law school. I once had a kid come to me with a melanoma on his back. He told me he was a pre-med. I recommended a wide local excision and the usual routine. The next thing I hear is from him telling me to “treat me like an officer, not an enlisted man,” I guess because he was a pre-med. That certainly gave me a favorable impression of him. Next, I get a request for records from Don Morton at UCLA. I didn’t mind losing that patient to UCLA at all.
A couple of years later, I got some followup. He had recurrence. Too bad but he certainly was not someone easy to establish empathy with.
Mike K (2cf494) — 10/20/2009 @ 5:50 pmI was reading that and found myself wondering if that is what timb is like in real life.
Brilliant!
Dmac (5ddc52) — 10/21/2009 @ 7:43 amThe Above the Law has a link to his FB page. One view confirms his douchebagginess.
Moon Z. Love (724fb8) — 10/21/2009 @ 3:10 pmDMac, he said “at the world’s largest airline. Being that he’s in Texas, I guess that would be American.
carlitos (35ae51) — 10/21/2009 @ 3:37 pmprobably American Airlines. HQ is in Dallas, prob some BS internship and will get hired as a high level manager if he ever gets his MBA
gunnage (666cf4) — 10/22/2009 @ 5:25 pm