Posted on 06/29/2016 4:18:33 AM PDT by C19fan
A reader writes:
I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn’t deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.
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Not really. A petition is an aggressive way to force an issue. Works in college but is not well thought of in the workplace.
It's like when someone asks you, "How is your morning?"
It's not meant to be taken seriously...and it's a form of CYA.
I've never heard that expressed quite that way. Very simple yet profound.
Thank you. I consider entropy to be a personal affront, not just a fact of physics.
There you go again!
I’ve been fired more times than Cape Canaveral, but never for something as dumb as this.
REALLY this young lady was OBVIOUSLY going to ALL of her coworkers talking about how bad the managements decisions were regarding dress code and basically stirring up trouble!!! ANY rebelrouser is NOT good for any business!!! These kids have a lot to learn about the REAL WORLD!!! When I read the article I KNEW immediately the young lady with the flat shoes had a medical problem before the letter stated so!!! This long lady saw a coworker wearing different shoes and started trouble instead of just ignoring it!!!
Reminds me of when I worked as a consultant for IBM. Caste-enforcing dress code. Always had to bring my suit coat into the office even if I never wore it in the heat (Atlanta) because we had to prove we had a suit on. I was winding up the last month on the job and feeling a little irreverent and irrelevant, so on a lark I posted a clipping from Weekly World News on my office door personal space - the bold headline read "Scientists Say - Wearing Ties Makes Men Stupid."
Well, this was too much sacrilege for the hoi polloi, gasps could be heard from my open doorway as my shocked coworkers hurried past. Eventually the head of the division came by to make sure I wasn't an anarchist, after he read the article though he ended up in my office with his tie thrown off, shoes on the desk, telling me his Korean war jet fighter pilot yarns with lots of hands flying action...
Interestingly my consulting contract was renewed the very next week in defiance of the corporate limits on contract terms...and i skipped on wearing a tie from then on.
“When they say the door is always open, it’s not...”
In my experience, someone who says they have an “Open Door Policy” means, “I keep my door open so I can shovel the poop downhill easier...not so you can stop by and chat!”
I learned early in my career that “I have an open door policy” does not always mean so....
There’s no such thing as an “open door policy.”
There’s no such thing as non-retaliation.
There’s no such thing as confidentiality.
You said it much better than me. I learned that too along time ago.
Help yourself to any sayings you like.
BINGO!!!
I never worked just for the experience.
I was recently at a HS graduation. One of the speakers said to the grads, “You will, on average, make 7 career changes in your working life.” I thought that was as little high, so I started to think about my own career changes....I came up with 9! At 2 mos. a pop, that would have been a year and a half of working for NO pay while not taking into account how expensive it is just to go to work.
BTW, that speaker was the president of WV Wesleyan University.
You're Most Definitely Right, about 99% of the time.
However, my current boss has an open door policy, and it's the real deal. Refreshing, to say the least. Helps that his name is on the side of the building.
However, I'd better not be in there, just to say "Hi" and talk about the weather. Get in, present what needs to be said, get an answer, and get out. His time is the most valuable commodity that he has. :-)
I actually read this article in its entirety. "Chutzpah" came to mind. I'd have fired the lot of them, too, with the exception of the one who refused to sign the petition. That one might be going places.
>Then why do they bother saying “the door is always open”?<
It’s an easy way to determine who the complainers will be.
I love the discussion:
Poster: 2 hours ago
Next step, storm the CEO's office and stage a sit-in. Better work up a good chant first, though. Hmmmm... how about "The interns, united, will never be terminated!" Nah, too many syllables at the end. But they can work it out, maybe Melissa Click is available to advise them since she's between jobs.
Poster: 11 minutes ago
How about: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, this companies dress code has to go!"
LOL, sounds like they need this instead:
If it is slavery, and you don’t want to do it...you don’t.
It is nice if you get paid as an intern. But if you need the experience in the environment to get a foot in the door...then working without pay (or little pay) is a choice you have to make.
You have to view it as an investment in your own personal capital, as Thomas Sowell puts it. It would be nice to get paid, but that isn’t what it is for.
And most definitely not for submitting petitions. When they threw these people out, there was likely a whole slew of other intern wanna-bes ready to jump in.
I am with both of you on this.
If I go to a wedding, I wear a suit, unless I am specifically told exactly what else to wear.
If I go to a wake or funeral, I wear a suit, no questions asked.
I am appalled at what I see worn to wakes, funerals, and weddings, even by family members. 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.
Give it another four or five years and we’ll be reading countless articles about how businesses have to learn to accommodate their newest cohort of employees—the Snowflakes.
Just like we read about Millennials and Gen X before them.
Our country, its people, and its institutions should be reduced to mush and sawdust by about the time whatever generation comes next.
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