Entitled interns fired for demanding dress code change at their employer

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I also noted the gender inconsistencies between the stories here and on that website.

 

[XPQ22]

I don't know if these interns should be blacklisted forever- that's overkill for what they did- but let's hope they have learned a hard lesson about the corporate world.

Nah, they won't learn a thing. When confronted with reality, these types always double-down - "Well, something's wrong. And it's certainly not me. So it must be the world that's wrong."

I'm sure the first thing they did was run to social media and perhaps the regular media, hoping to rally up the SJW hate squad and Internet white knights to their "cause", with the intent of extracting at least a public apology/rescindment from the company.

Anecdotally it's also been my experience that nominally "liberal" organizations and companies are not too good at actually complying with the requirements of the ADA...if you're a man. I suffer from chronic pain flareups and often have trouble standing for long periods; I was legally temporarily disabled for two years because of it. My girl wanted to go to some event hosted at a club/theater sponsored by Harvard University...we get there and there's not a fucking seat on the main floor anywhere. I sit down on a railing for 30 seconds and they tell me to get up. I explain to the door staff (all sitting around on the only chairs available) my situation, they shrug and go "Buy a table upgrade (for $80) or leave." It seems silly to turn away a customer who'd be ready to spend a decent amount of money at the bar because you can't find a place for him to sit for five minutes, it seems to me a rather small thing to ask, but they definitely couldn't have cared less.

The one interesting thing was that this dance event was put on by some LGBT group, it's not something I would've gone to except to humor my plate's curiosity, but when I got there I noticed that the club was filled to the bursting with hot women, like a 5:1 ratio at least. Girls were approaching me at the bar, there were couples approaching my plate, it was pretty nuts, at least for the hour or so we spent there. Even my girl commented on the irony of it: "So here you are with me, and also every single woman in the city." My obvious frustration seemed to give her a perverse feeling of satisfaction.

 

[Herr Lucifer]

People enjoy a good pile on. It feeds a sense of superiority, with a dash of sadistic glee. We are only human.

The original poster on that site said she was a woman who initiated the "petition" to begin with. This 1 post troll claims to be a man who is the original submitter.


A 1 post troll who fucked up the details got your collective blood pressures up..

Come on guys this is a pretty obvious inconsistency.

 

[The Father]

I want to say I do have a lot of respect for the one intern who refused to sign that stupid petition. He (I assume it's a male) had enough proper upbringing and intelligence to know it's not in his best interests to align himself with a bunch of crybaby millennial SJW's in Corporate America, especially as the absolute lowest peon on the company totem pole. Assuming he's around 20 or 21, I'm impressed by that because when I was that age it would have been harder for me to not give into peer pressure to "support" the rest of the interns like that, even if I disagreed with them. Who knows - maybe he's a member of the forum.

This. When I was I was in my late 20's, I worked for a boss who was a nice guy, a bit bumbling, perhaps, but well intentioned. The worst thing he ever did was that, occasionally, he'd ask someone to run an errand for him like picking up some supplies at the Staples (around the corner, btw) rather than wait 3 days for the admin to order them. He was from a different culture and this would not be considered not "out of school" for him. But he treated people well, didn't overwork them, etc. But for whatever reason, several of the slightly younger team members decided to "report" him to the big boss. Now, this was at a huge, old-school, fortune 500. There was one guy on the team who was about 40, and realized what a foolish idea this was. He begged them not to do it, that their was no real grievance and they'd only look foolish, and probably end their own careers. So he did not participate. And neither did I. And it played out exactly as I suspected, the VP said "Oh, hmmm, well I'll TALK to him about this", but was really thinking "Jesus you guys are wasting my time with this? None of you are fit to ever be a manager". As I said, I was late 20's at the time - 28 maybe? I'm not sure i would've been that smart at 21. So kudo's to the one intern.

 

[XPQ22]

^ Those who have some sense understand that if they don't like it, the best long-term plan is to keep your mouth shut and either look for something more suitable, or work on becoming self-employed.

 

[DarkTriad]

I want to say I do have a lot of respect for the one intern who refused to sign that stupid petition. He (I assume it's a male) had enough proper upbringing and intelligence to know it's not in his best interests to align himself with a bunch of crybaby millennial SJW's in Corporate America, especially as the absolute lowest peon on the company totem pole. Assuming he's around 20 or 21, I'm impressed by that because when I was that age it would have been harder for me to not give into peer pressure to "support" the rest of the interns like that, even if I disagreed with them. Who knows - maybe he's a member of the forum.

This. When I was I was in my late 20's, I worked for a boss who was a nice guy, a bit bumbling, perhaps, but well intentioned. The worst thing he ever did was that, occasionally, he'd ask someone to run an errand for him like picking up some supplies at the Staples (around the corner, btw) rather than wait 3 days for the admin to order them. He was from a different culture and this would not be considered not "out of school" for him. But he treated people well, didn't overwork them, etc. But for whatever reason, several of the slightly younger team members decided to "report" him to the big boss. Now, this was at a huge, old-school, fortune 500. There was one guy on the team who was about 40, and realized what a foolish idea this was. He begged them not to do it, that their was no real grievance and they'd only look foolish, and probably end their own careers. So he did not participate. And neither did I. And it played out exactly as I suspected, the VP said "Oh, hmmm, well I'll TALK to him about this", but was really thinking "Jesus you guys are wasting my time with this? None of you are fit to ever be a manager". As I said, I was late 20's at the time - 28 maybe? I'm not sure i would've been that smart at 21. So kudo's to the one intern.

If the supplies were for work that needed to get done, what's the issue? You're all there to get the job done.

I've done coffee and food runs for the guys while I was doing a 100k a year job, thought nothing of it.