I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code

Ask A Manager ^ | June 28, 2016 | Alison Green

[9YearLurker]

That is true, but the costs to employ someone outright have been pushed so high that employers now look so carefully at work history before bringing someone on board that in practicality employers get a free year of servitude, before unhappy employees can realistically move on to a new job without mucking up their resume and severely limiting their options.

That’s just the way of the modern world.

[Huck]

If you have ever seen the movie “Gran Torino”, and Clint Eastwood growls at his grandchildren at the funeral for his wife...that is ME.

Ha. I had forgotton that. Great movie.

[Spitzensparkin1]

""Always dress for the position you want not the one you have.""

"Good advice. I will pass it on to the roughnecks throwing chain on a drilling rig down here in South Texas. I’m sure that they want to advance. LoL!"

Why are they throwing chain? Did they break the spinning tongs again? Maybe an intern got his tie caught in the rollers.

Thanks for posting your comment. This old retired (2008) deep hole (25,000') driller got a good chuckle.

Yes, we all did it with a spinning chain back in the day, too.

Best FRegards, SS1

[Burma Jones]

You raise a really good point — they probably mentioned “discrimination”, thinking that would increase their chances of being taken seriously.

To the company, a simple request to reconsider the dress code might have been no more than a mild annoyance, but for these kids to issue the type of veiled threat that — if asserted by a member of a protected class — would cost the company thousands in legal fees even if the claim was bogus, probably really PO’d the company and brought the hammer down.

Note to Snowflakes: unpaid interns are not a protected class. Know your limitations.

[Chode]

poor snowflakes, their first taste of reality, and it didn't taste like skittles...

[sport]

We decided to write a proposal stating why we should be allowed someone leeway under the dress code. We accompanied the proposal with a petition, signed by all of the interns (except for one who declined to sign it) and gave it to our managers to consider

.And the managers considered it, then stuck a match up their asses and told them that they were fired.

[TYVets]

Stupid Snowflakes

[Ouderkirk]

The other party who was granted dispensation from the company regarding the dress code should have been of no concern to these interns.

The idea that they were simply unwilling to follow clear instructions rendered them unfit for any further training/education because they failed to grasp the basic concept of authority and who holds it.

[Tax-chick]

I agree.

As I observed above, they were taught this behavior in school and rewarded for practicing it. Then suddenly, Ka-POW!

[RikaStrom]

Per our discussion