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Spoiled College Grad Demands New Dress Code at Job, Gets the Boot
pjmedia.com ^ | 6/29/2016 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 06/29/2016 11:36:22 AM PDT by rktman

The next day, all of us who signed the petition were called into a meeting where we thought our proposal would be discussed. Instead, we were informed that due to our “unprofessional” behavior, we were being let go from our internships. We were told to hand in our ID badges and to gather our things and leave the property ASAP.

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. The worst part is that just before the meeting ended, one of the managers told us that the worker who was allowed to disobey the dress code was a former soldier who lost her leg and was therefore given permission to wear whatever kind of shoes she could walk in. You can’t even tell, and if we had known about this we would have factored it into our argument.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: byefelicia; dresscode; fired; intern; interns; internship; millennials; petition; workplace
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To: rktman

Feel good story of the day.

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, don’t it?


81 posted on 06/30/2016 2:01:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot
There are some great lines in the "Zootopia" movie, especially from the hard-nosed Police Chief Bogo.

"There are some new recruits with us I should introduce. But I'm not going to because, I don't care."


82 posted on 06/30/2016 2:24:07 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: rktman

Snowflake obviously doesn’t understand at will employment.


83 posted on 06/30/2016 2:36:15 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Thanks for the hat tip, I will check it out.


84 posted on 06/30/2016 2:44:15 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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