and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
My son, who is about to graduate from college with a marketing degree, has an internship at a local museum. He dresses UP, even if he’s just going to be clearing storage space that day.
Rich people with potential paying job opportunities support museums, and cute girls volunteer there!
We were shocked. The proposal was written professionally like examples I have learned about in school, and our arguments were thought out and well-reasoned. We weren’t even given a chance to discuss it
Today’s society thinks that a job is a right...not a privilege. This snowflake learned examples in school? Well, guess what snowflake...YOU ARE IN THE REAL WORLD NOW
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Yes sir yes sir three bags full
If folks would concentrate on doing their job instead of putting their noses in other people’s business, the world would be a much better place.
Extreme over-reaction by management. Any organization that acted in that fashion is not the type I would wish to work for.
a big ROFL
such entitled mis-educated morons
What kind of fool thinks that the interns are there to run the company?? You suck it up, keep your head down, and learn all you can. That is what an internship is. They did not bring you in to tell them their rules are no good!
The company did the right thing. Identified and fired the activists and bomb throwers before they had a chance to enter into a corporate structure with some scintilla of standing. Kudos. Safe spaces are for cowards.
Everyone in this story is a special snowflake. Management was presented with an opinion that disagreed with theirs and the response was to fire people.
I still remember a black intern from Rutgers barging into the president of the company I worked for to complain about ‘stuff.’ He was black himself, socially liberal but ran a VERY conservative outfit in terms of how you did your job and how you behaved. She did not last two days. Note to kiddies: suck it up and do your job. If you don’t like it, quit and get another internship.
“like examples I have learned about in school”
Rule #1, kid...college doesn’t prepare you for the real world.
Other savvy business advice to you youngsters out there...
When they say the door is always open, it’s not
Always dress for the position you want not the one you have.
Just what is an internship? When I was in school everybody got Summer time jobs. Those usually would pay for o e semester with Dad and Mom paying the rest. But that was in a time where one job would support a family.
“This is also why it’s a good idea for teenagers to work some kind of job in high school or early college, before they’re ready for internships or full-time jobs...”
—From one of the comments at the original site.
But then that’s the whole point of minimum wage laws, isn’t it. To keep teenagers from getting jobs.
Worse, the *one* example these snowflakes based their petition off of turns out to be a disabled veteran who had lost a leg, and was given explicit permission to wear whatever shoes she needed to in order to be able to walk. The interns didn’t even check with this person to see why she was allowed an exception. Just casually asking the employee in the break room “hey, how come you get to wear running shoes” would have cleared things up right quick.
Interns should be seen and not heard.
I’d like to see the text of their proposal. I wouldn’t be surprised if the word “discrimination” was in there, as the kid harped on the employee that had different shoes.
What they learned in school was probably - list of demands, sit-in, strike, lawsuit. A sequence to follow if demands are not met. A path any employer could see coming and want to nip in the bud.
There was probably a lot of verbal b*tching and moaning preceding this, especially in regards to the excepted employee. At their group termination it was revealed there was a medical reason.
Even I anticipated that, but maybe because I’m older. These dummies don’t realize that such exceptions exist and the employer is also responsible for maintaining that employees “privacy”.
Hey Fellow GenXer. I remember when I was trying to make it. Reality bites, but its reality.
Well...congratulations snowflake. You gained some very valuable experience. I hope you're intelligent enough to recognize that and put it to good use in your future endeavors. But I'm not going to hold my breath.