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.
The whole point in this situation is that these interns were acting like children. “how come X gets to do...and I don’t”.
At that point, it is their questioning of authority that is at issue, and further, the idea that a business is a democracy where you can petition for a redress of grievances.
That this was a hill they chose to die on, demonstrates their lack of cognitive ability and thus they were unsuitable for any other development, because they had not mastered the primary goal...do as you are instructed.
The young person specified that the interns would have incorporated the disabled vet’s situation into their arguments, if they had known. I assume that would have been something like, “An exception has been made to the policy for Employee X’s special needs. This demonstrates that the policy is arbitrary, and an exception should also be made for OUR special needs.”