Interns Get Fired En Masse After Protesting Dress Code at Work

speaking of entitlement.. Expecting people to work for no pay, or is that slavery?

 

Yes...this doesn't bode well for the employability of Millennials.

 

Oh for god's sake! It's part of your training. I spent 24 hours a week for one year training in a lab, and doing the work which would be expected of me when I graduated. I didn't get paid for it. This was the whole point of my clinical training. Your generation needs their arses kicked.

 

You know, one more thing that I overlooked is that I don't think their intentions were that good. If anything, their intentions were based on immaturity than anything else. And they themselves kind of give it away.

The whole thing started not because they didn't like the dress code, but because someone else wasn't following it. And, like most teenagers (assuming they were such) well, they couldn't have that. Not only did they say that while the dress code was strict, they weren't going to complain UNTIL they saw the co-worker with the non-dress code shoes, you also have them admitting at the end 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.” The whole thing really wasn't motivated by the idea of improving the workplace but rather that life isn't fair and lets complain about it. Well, good grief, I'm sure the lady missing part of her leg feels the same way.

Anecdote time: Our school dress code for the kids states "No hoodies" And that's a pretty decent enough rule, I want to see their faces in class. Well, last year we had a kid who, for health reasons, was allowed to wear her hoodie over her head - you can probably guess why. And we had a few kids complain, and those of us who had her in our classes pulled the kids complaining aside and, without telling them the medical issue, simply said she had permission, and that was the end of it.

Elementary school kids understood the concept - and these guys didn't.

I don't think interns have security at all. They're interns.

 

Slavery.

 

I can't speak for the intern program there, but as for teachers interning AKA "student teaching", while we don't get paid, it's also an actual class. Two quarters of Student Teaching. While I was in high school, we also had student internships as a class where some of my friends were unpaid workers somewhere getting class credits while working as unpaid workers. The pay was the class grade. Isn't it likely the same thing applies here?

 

Is it not work? why can't you get paid at least the minimum wage and also get credits?
if someone does a job for you, you pay them in money.

 

Education. When I graduated I was job ready. Without the clinical training, I would have been worthless to the employer.

 

and the employer is still taking advantage and getting free labour because they feel entitled to it. There are businesses that pay their interns money

 

They shouldn't have to pay you because they are spending money to train you. I had to have a woman shadow me until she was sure I knew what I was doing. That cost the company money.

 

I heard this on the radio this morning, I just couldn't stop laughing. I guess they thought they could bully their employer like college administrator wieners.

 

Aw, poor little snowflakes!

What in the hell ever gave them the idea that as interns they should be demanding changes in company rules? Oh wait ... I know the answer to that.

Well welcome to real world, snowflakes!

 

There's also this one:

Dressing Unprofessionally

As an intern, it is essential for you to dress professionally. Pay attention to how your supervisor dresses and follow suit (pun intended). During the summer, it might be tempting to show more skin, but you need to put the temptation aside. Dressing too casually or showing too much skin will get you in to trouble, whereas dressing professionally will get you farther in your career.




The useless breathers were told how to dress. They decided to organize and complain about it.

Poof, gone! As it should be.

 

'Urine sample bottles?' LOL! Never seen one of those before. A blood culture bottle yes and intralipids but never seen anyone (*)(*)(*)(*) in a bottle before.

 

Corporations aren't democratic institutions and generally don't behave as though they were. Activities such as petitions and other forms of protest, although culturally acceptable in university, aren't acceptable to a company. Rightly or wrongly corporate executives don't tend to react well to this type of challenge and the interns should have know enough about the company they were working for to understand how their actions would have been received.

 

Stupid.

 

I think what amazes me more than the people trying to defend the interns, is that not ONE of the interns asked the person they saw "violating" the rules if they were allowed to wear shoes like that... not ONE of them struck up a conversation with this person to say, how do we get to wear shoes like that too... because then they might have learned the person had an artificial leg... instead their smug self-righteous attitudes didn't get to know the people they saw "violating" the rules, they just said, hey "me too" and "I'm entitled to more" and they just learned like you said, the most valuable life lesson they could have during this brief internship... not everything it as it appears...

the next question that pops in my head... when someone gets pregnant and gets maternity leave, will they demand time off for themselves because its not fair the pregnant woman who gave birth got extra time off? when someone suffers through cancer and is given family medical leave, will they demand extra time off because its not fair they had to do the extra work for the person who's wife was dying and the husband just wanted some last moments with her... young people today just don't get it... but why would I expect anything else, this generation has been told they are special and not just deserve more, but are entitled to more than anyone else without earning it...

maybe next time the managers could explain "equality" to them, and as soon as their leg is blown off their body and they return from war, they can wear whatever shoes they want too... but not until they lose their leg in war... maybe they would understand how their "leg privilege" has afforded them them rights and advantages over others... so this was nothing more than liberal ideology at practice, these "leg privilege" employees were terminated like liberals want "white privilege" people terminated...

 

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What amazes me is how many people are absolutely ignorant of the abuses of internships in the US, for example

Surviving the Internship Economy: How companies abuse interns for free labor

12 True Tales of Intern Abuse

How to tell when unpaid internships are opportunities, when they’re an abuse

How Unpaid Interns Aren’t Protected Against Sexual Harassment

Interns aren't just cheap labor to abuse: they're workers – and they deserve pay

Internship abuse: The Conde Nast case, and more​

All I'm seeing in this thread are unprovable, anecdotal stories.

 

Send your PM a petition...

 

Professional attire is very important to the cohesion of a group. Think: Military, think sports teams. If people can't abide by the dress code, then they wouldn't be able to abide by anything else.

 

Where I work, the interns stream in every summer. They have pre and post interviews. Since I've had interns reports to me over the years, I get to see the results of their polling. Dress code always comes up. It's never a deterrent to them accepting a job and every intelligent person knows you need some level of professional decorum. They all knew the code before accepting the job. Most are all children of employees anyway so they know the drill. Speaking your mind is one thing. Organizing something like this would be seen as a major problem and we've been
In the top places to work lists for as long as the lists have existed. Our dress Code has shifted over the years, perhaps allowing jeans one day, but only an utter MORON would put how they dress over a job.

These kids learned their first Lesson on real world 101.


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An internship is to give a person a chance, to see if they have the potential to be beneficial to the company. They aren't looking for the next community organizer, they are looking for company people. They want people who dive into learning the work not people trying to change the company culture. Most likely there are people lining up to do the job so why hang on to someone you know is going to be a difficult employee when it is so easy to cut them loose? If they were talented, then perhaps they should have done a little more working and a little less trying to undermine company policy.

 

They learned what young entitled and stupid got them. Good for the company.

 

And i am sure you can somehow back up this claim.....

 

The real world will impact them at one point and they will learn.