Interns Fired for Petitioning for a More Casual Dress Code

Funny, the general impression I got was that the management is a bunch of serious people who are trying to run a business in a proper way so as to get the most profit for their shareholders and provide a business atmosphere for their clients and for their workers and the "INTERNS" were all a bunch of spoiled self absorbed college students who are used to professors dressing like bums and teaching them that all they need to do to get their way is to protest and make trouble for the society they despise.

Management was confronted with an opinion that disagreed with theirs; management fired people. Management clearly cannot handle being confronted with an opinion that disagrees with theirs.

I have noticed an unwillingness by the current generation in charge of things to accept that people may disagree with them.

Interns are there to learn how a business operates, not to tell the business how it should be run in order to please them.

If this statement is true, the company is not going to teach anyone anything by firing people who ask for a change in policy. If anything, the only lesson any group of people is going to learn from this is that the current employees will learn that vocally disagreeing with management will end your job. Note: there is a distinction between disagreeing with management and engaging in behavior contrary to management's instructions.

The snowflakes were the interns who didn't want to follow the rules.

There is a distinction between wanting a different set of rules and being unwilling to follow the rules. Absolutely no evidence has been presented of the latter attitude in these interns as no one has presented evidence that there was a rule against asking for leeway in a dress code nor has anyone presented evidence that any of the interns actually violated the dress code. Either the former attitude or the attitude of not wanting to follow the rules is present in almost every single human I have ever met irrespective of what generation they are a member of.

Being an intern is a privilege. These ingrates took internships that others were undoubtedly waiting in line to get. By expressing dissatisfaction with their working conditions they were basically telling their teachers that they knew better how to run their business than them.

I’m sure their replacements were more than happy to adhere to the dress code without crying about it or petitioning for better working conditions.

BTW, getting kicked out of an internship is going to look pretty bad on their resumes.

No, it does NOT depend on the request. They are there at the indulgence of the employer. If they don’t like something, they are free to leave. Perhaps after several weeks learning how the place works they *might* be able to make intelligent suggestions, but not within days of arriving.

It’s an insult for a completely green employee to tell their employer they know better how to run the place. Sheesh!

No, it does NOT depend on the request.

Oh, you have aspirations of going into our tyrannical government? Not even listen to a request before unilaterally declaring it offensive seems more like a slave-owner relationship.

They are there at the indulgence of the employer.

Who is saying that the employer doesn't have the right to fire them? I'm not.

If they don’t like something, they are free to leave.

But not to ask if it can be changed?

Perhaps after several weeks learning how the place works they *might* be able to make intelligent suggestions, but not within days of arriving.

That really depends on their past experience, doesn't it?
My brother served in the Marines and is going to school to become a Doctor, he's already been to the Army's Medical school (he joined the National Guard after his enlistment was up) — if he was given an internship somewhere in this new field (civilian medicine), should his observations be dismissed out of hand because he has no experience in the industry?

It’s an insult for a completely green employee to tell their employer they know better how to run the place. Sheesh!

It shows a lack of leadership to not even listen to your people.
Indeed, this is exactly the problem with our government — they completely ignore the cries of us on things like taxes, regulations, justice… this last one is very evident in Hillary's non-prosecution, in the terrible deals we're forced into (like the treason that is the Iran Deal) and NAFTA, with [non]enforcement of laws like immigration.

Context is everything, FRiend.

These kids come in and within a couple of days are telling the boss how to run the place.

I’d fire them too. The moment the petition (!) hit my desk, their butts would be in the parking lot.

These special snowflakes had the unmitigated gall to tell their boss how to do business, within days of being brought on board. Life doesn’t work like that, ever. New hires are to LEARN the job, not tell others how to run their shop. Interns are there to learn, not tell the management how to run the place.

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