Interns Get Fired En Masse After Protesting Dress Code at Work

And how many deals have you made as a salesman? How much experience do you have in the business world to be making such platitudes? Please show us that you have something to back up the bull(*)(*)(*)(*) you've been writing.

 

Gawd almighty, I can't believe this.....1st of all, a serious body odor can be taken care of by going to the doctor and following his advice!

2ndly, professionalism has nothing to do w/the damn weather! Even he POTUS can get rained on while going to a meeting....management does understand that their employees can't control Mother Nature!!

Management can't ban an employee's form of transportation b/c the employee isn't on the clock, meaning company time and getting paid!

No, everyone is NOT 'a beggar for welfare'... where do you get that crazy idea from? The only way you could come to that conclusion is if everyone you know are receiving some form of welfare and you haven't figured out yet that the people you know is not the whole world.

 

You do understand that people "PAY" to learn in colleges, don't ya? An internship would be the next step in their education and they often get paid for it, too. You do know the White House and Supreme Court have interns....hey, Monica Lewinski was an intern. Imagine that.

 

Not enough experience to be hired, can't get experience without a job. Shame on someone for giving people another option.



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Context. Care to answer the question?

 

I'm not sure which one is your real answer, so just in case:

A) Okay.

B) No.

 

Businesses usually have guidelines for dress. If you value the job, dress accordingly.
These interns that work for free, who pays for their housing? Transportation? Groceries? Clothes? Utilities?

 

Who pays all that when they are in school?

 

Who can I sue to get paid for all the work I did in college?

Those physics and math classes were brutal




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Why not just answer the simple question?

 

Dress codes are typically explained prior to interns being hired. If you don't like the code, don't take the position.

 

I never insinuated tourism wasn't important. I said Disney is the king of Florida tourist expenditures.
Never heard the Guld called Emerald Coast.
I remember when you could drive along the Atlantic side through Daytona. Have ridden rides at the Miracle Strip, eaten at Angelo's and Captain Anderson's. Stayed at Peek's as a kid. Never been south of Central Florida. Been to Orlando/Kissimmee?

 

Big surprise.
How much cough medicine would you give a kid? Is the question too invasive? Too difficult? Why not answer?

 

Their parents, scholarships, or financial aid/student loans, or the student works a paying job to cover living expenses while going to college.
How do those interns working for free her by?

 

Indeed.com is a well known sure when one is looking for a job. Pull it up and use keyword architect for a job search. Licensure is not a qualification. Search teacher, nurse, pilot...Licensure will be listed in the qualifications portion.

 

Do a google search. This is one of many stating they need a license.

All states and the District of Columbia require architects to be licensed

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/architects.htm#tab-4

 

Apparently they work out something to get by. Probably many of the same as when going to school. My son had to intern before he graduated. He wasn't paid. He did live at home since we were not far from his school. He also worked a job while interning.

 

Do a job search for Architect in Washington DC and look at qualifications. Send me a couple of links for architect jobs requiring licensure. Every public teacher job, every nursing job, every pilot job, every truck driving job will list current licensure as a qualification.

 

To get by one must have income or someone who is providing for their basic needs.
Internships are frequently part of secondary education. Students pay tuition to intern in hopes their eventual credentials will secure them a lucrative job.
Somebody with funds has to pay the bills.
Working for no pay because you love it is called philanthropy. And your trustfund or portfolio is usually paying the bills.

 

You are evidently a survivor of a low rank military tenure where you were deprogrammed and then taught blind obedience. You resent free thinkers who don't conform to the concepts of blind obedience which you were subjected to.

 

Blind obedience, that's rich coming from a liberal, a democrat, a person who will vote for Clinton for no other reason than the MSM told you to.

 

I'll take that as a yes.

 

Your post reveals you don't actually have an answer as all you had were lame personal insults rather than a rebuttal of my own post. A very weak answer on your part. Were I to analyze you thus, I would say you are evidently EITHER the product of having taken only one Psych class in college as an elective that you failed OR you saw all the X-Men movies and cosplayed Professor X one too many times to the point of believing you really can read minds. [Spoiler alert: You can't.] Either way, your armchair psychology is both wrong and irrelevant to the thread as I am not the subject of it.

I'll try it again: Blind Obedience is following orders without question even while knowing that the actions thereof will result in harm to others or oneself. Following a dress code set forth by management does not apply in this case as no one is actually harmed. Or you could define blind obedience to authority as what you do when you think laws should be obeyed just because the law exists without questioning it. Also irrelevant as management can tell you why said dress code does exist. One can follow it knowing there is a reason to it and what the reason is. This is above and beyond the fact that there is a need in most jobs to project a professional attitude and appearance much less the fact that people who dress better tend to work and act better. Also, one has a choice as to whether to follow it or not. Sure, it might mean mean losing your job if you don't, but that's why there's also such things as personal responsibility (something the adolescent mind usually rejects on principle) and free will.

And then of course there's the pubescent thinking that says free thinkers must never listen to authority or rules at all, as if one can't be a free thinker AND follow a dress code. Such binary thinking is a product of the truly teenaged mind, and while amusing, ultimately harmless.

 

You are shooting holes in your feet. The argument is not about dress code but about people being fired for questioning the dress code. They did not violate the code, they just questioned it.

That is not even an issue of disobedience.

 

Except that your argument, all you were discussing in your post was some BS armchair psychology about another poster. I understand your very human need to try to cover yourself when caught but at least be honest about it.

To a degree it isn't about disobedience, that much is true. They did question the dress code, several of them did. Had it stayed there, nothing would have happened and they'd likely still be there.

What got them fired IN PART was questioning the dress code's seeming hypocrisy as management applied it to the vet. It snowballed as they discussed it likely AT work and DURING work. It got worse when they likely made this vet the unwilling and unwanted subject of their dress code crusade. The petition was likely NOT the reason they got fired, although at this point they'd been told by several managers the same thing, that the dress code was not changing for them despite the fact that the vet was an exception to it. Not to mention the fact that they were arguing with management about a policy that they had already discussed was not changing. What likely got them fired was management realizing that to some degree or another, these trainees had just put the vet on the spot. That she was now likely to feel very uncomfortable working with a pack of kids who had made her the center of their dress code crusade, who were discussing and likely gossiping about her behind her back, that this happened to the vet thru no fault of her own, and who were convinced that her being allowed to violate the dress code was wrong when it was none of their business that she was or why she was. And the business decided that they had a responsibility to protect the vet from any further immature behavior, gossip, and discussion from the children in question. That meant firing their pubertoid behinds.

I think an argument could be made they they were indirectly bullying the vet, but in any event I believe protecting the vet from any further idiocy from the interns was what got these children fired. And it's kind of easy to deduce that the OP was pretty insensitive about people in general and the vet in particular as he states no real regret over the fact that his own actions led to a slew of interns besides himself getting fired.