They rake in exam fees and they churn out a bunch of drones who think everything at the end of a patch cable is "a Cisco" and who wonder why their CLI commands on a Procurve switch keep returning syntax errors...

I'm working on my CCNA just to get me past the HR filters and will rely on my years of ACTUAL WORK EXPERIENCE to land me the job.

Edit: By the way, your story sounds much like mine. I've payed my dues working a dead-end break/fix tech job for years. Even though I had a B.S. in CS, the job was all that I could get in the post Y2K economy. And it irks me to no end when a bunch of snot-nosed hacks off the street think that they can attend some bootcamp for a week and call themselves and Engineer. I'd like to interview one of those people...