Interns Get Fired En Masse After Protesting Dress Code at Work

Discipline doesn't mean blind obedience.

 

Yes. The converse is true. Blind discipline doesn't equate to discipline.

Or put another way, following the basic expectations of management does not equate blind obedience. Unless one has a teenage mind and has their thoughts ruled by a "You can't tell me what to do!" mentality.

Blind obedience would be following rules that harm oneself or others without hesitation. Dressing professionally and/or following a dress code does not fall under that equation, no matter how many millennials think otherwise.

 

I don't just imagine it; I live the dream. I'm an elementary teacher, I have kids - usually the 5th thru 8th graders - getting out of school because it was raining. They complain to their moms and mommy lets them get away with it.

Just so you know: This problem ain't going away anytime soon. Those kids will be entering the work force soon enough.

 

Thats just bad parenting all together. Heavy ice and snow I could understand, but not (*)(*)(*)(*)ing rain unless its flooding out. My kid is getting their ass in school as I will not allow my child to become a worthless leach lol.

 

I wish I knew how these kids dressed for their initial interviews. Perhaps when they go on future interviews they should show up in their preferred work attire and let the chips fall where they may.

 

'Yeah, give me the receptionist - Cheryl? The people in the lobby waiting for a job interview? - Please tell the millennials not to bother. Thanks."

 

No. People don't work much for free.
Housing, food, transportation, utilities, clothing, etc....these are bills money pays. That is usually why people work.
Wouldn't give business to peeps who didn't look professional?

Describe "looking professional" as you use it.
I can't wait!!!

 

Awful Florida beaches?
Haha.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about Florida.
Natural resources for tourism?? Comedy gold.
Uhhhh...Disney World?? I've been to all four parks multiple times. The Atlantic coast has better waves and seashells. Vacationers take pictures of the sunrise. Time is EST. Half the Panhandle beaxhes are CST. The sun sets there. The beaches are not as big there. Sand is being hauled in frequently due to erosion.
Florida residents pay no state income tax. Tap water in Florida is horrible. Go to Ron John for a swimsuit and if your in PCB hit Pineapple Willy's.
I live in Georgia. I have vacationed in Florida for 40 years.
Great try though.

 

How much liquid cough medicine would you give a kid?

 

The bolded part says it all and the fact it is obvious your are not a business owner. Oh and what you say in those simple terms about a workplace dress code, yeah get hired and a few weeks later go up to the owner of that business that is what you think of his dress code for his business and watch him tell you OK then get the f*** out of my business here's your final paycheck. And you will have received your just rewards.

 

Lol.
You don't get a license in architecture. You
get a degree.

 

No right just the privilege of coming in and observing and learning how THEY operate THEIR business. You are not there to teach or managae as much as you might think your are more qualified to so as these interns apparently did.

 

I do know this...don't make waves.

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Because in real life managers don't have time to deal with petty bs. I hope they learn from it.

 

Tina's legs aren't a liquid asset. That was my point.
Are you in NYC? If

 

Okay, I have to ask - what IS with these off-topic questions?

 

Someone mentioned math.
I was just curious.

 

Too much thought, and time is wasted on the dress code. There are more important aspects to a business than what fabric employees are wearing. Anyone who has the ability to think sensibly, and realistically, know it is not asking much that a workplace be a democracy. One executive does not make people under him play follow the leader. People on this forum whom think outdated, business norms are acceptable will agree with your closed-minded statement. Again, jeans will not affect whether or not a salesman seals the deal. Shove that block off your shoulder. And prove you can think sensibly.

 

I heard a news commentator refer to the root of the problem being that one or more interns wanted to wear rubber flip-flops. May or may not be the case, but explains the focus on the material the shoe is made from.

Problem with dress codes is that it requires a person to understand the concept of "business attire". There's always a challenge to the rules of dress.

 

No, really. They do work for free. I see them rotate in and out. Lots of places have unpaid internships.

Looking professional? Let's put it this way... if you don't take care of your appearance, take pride in your appearance, then you likely don't take care or pride in your work. Was that worth the build up?

You find someone with a messy room, they're likely to have a messy car. They're likely to he messy. If they don't take care of the things they have, you think they're going to take care of your work?

Don't dress like a bum. I don't understand why that's so revolutionary?

 

Internships. Whichever rich scumbag ever invented the notion that people can work for free to gain experience should be resurrected, executed, and repeated, ad nausea.

As for these interns - challenging the status quo is just something corporate America pays lip service to in team meetings and other morale boosting chats.

Don't. Do. It.

It's a surefire way to be summarily terminated.

 

The young fools need to understand THEY do not run the company. Good for the company, they taught the young fools a lesson they really needed to learn.

 

Yeah, and you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

http://www.ncarb.org/Reg-Board-Requirements

The "Intern Development Program" administered by NCARB requires a 3 or 5 year internship depending on type of degree before being eligible to test for a license.

You really ought to do a little research before responding.

 

Well I would give none to a red headed kid with different colored pupils.

In your mind, that should normally distribute across a sample of all demographics.

 

The east Coast beaches suck, after you get north of Cocoa
Well, I live in Pensacola--have lived on the Gulf Coast since 1997(12 in Pensacola), lived in Miami for 4 years in the late 1980s. Beaches from here to Panama City are among the best in the world. Sugar white sands, emerald green water. You obviously have never vacationed on the Emerald coast, or you would know how much the East Coast sucks. Yes, they have shells, but the sand quality is low/visibility low, until you get to the coral areas, where the sand is coral sand. Almost all of the Panhandle beaches are CST. There are a few to the east of Port St. Joe that are in EST, but not close to half. (pretty much east of St. George Island, the beaches are gone).


For someone who doesnt' think tourism is important for Florida, you sure seem to have spent a lot of money here......

 

Actually, it's both.