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I’m currently sitting at my desk this morning in boat shoes, a polo shirt, and a pair of old Seven jeans that have a noticeable hole in them from drunkenly attempting to jump a fence. It’s a very relaxed, almost too casual look, but my general apathy toward how I look at work is just something people have learned to put up with.
I’ve taken some liberties with my company’s casual dress code, but if they forced a more business casual dress code upon me, I’d bitch under my breath but that would be the extent of my griping. And I certainly wouldn’t start a fucking petition. But that’s exactly what some spoiled brat intern did at his office during his summer internship, where he lobbied to have the dress code completely overhauled.
This guy saw a coworker that “always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.” Boo frickin’ hoo dude. You’re harping on the shoes? THE FUCKING SHOES? They go under the desk! Why don’t you start your battles by trying to get jeans approved, or short sleeve shirts?
So, modeling his behavior on the protest culture pervasive across American college campuses, he started a petition. I will say this, the kid’s got some heavy stones.
The next day, all of us who signed the petition were called into a meeting where we thought our proposal would be discussed. Instead, we were informed that due to our “unprofessional” behavior, we were being let go from our internships. We were told to hand in our ID badges and to gather our things and leave the property ASAP. We were shocked. The proposal was written professionally like examples I have learned about in school, and our arguments were thought out and well-reasoned. We weren’t even given a chance to discuss it. The worst part is 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.
This guy should feel like the biggest schmuck on the planet right now. He was getting angry that a war hero, a fucking WAR HERO, who had a prosthetic leg, wasn’t wearing high heels? What a dickhead. The fact that he thought this was something he could discuss, as an intern, is bananas.
I’d say this was a better lessen than any he could have learned from actually doing the internship. Some real school of hard knocks type stuff. The office is not a place for social justice and activism. It’s where you go to be miserable and uncomfortable for ten hours a day, and the sooner this guy learns it the better. As soon as one petition actually works in an office, we’ll dematerialize into a lawless civilization. We’re not animals, we’re living in a society. Leave your petitions at college, there’s no room for them in the office..
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Reading that was extremely satisfying. Can’t wait to read more stories of all these coddled snowflakes getting a taste of what the real world outside their safe college bubble is like.
Most of them will be on welfare. I’m happy they won’t succeed. Pissed that I’ll be paying for them.
I try not to think about that. Living in California means paying way too much in taxes as is.
I wouldn’t have fired these kids. Instead, I would have made the internship the worst summer of their fucking miserable little lives.
Hazing interns. PGPM
Entitled idiot
None of them thought “hey, we should recruit a seasoned coworker so our petition will carry a little more weight”?
I would hope that none of the “seasoned” coworkers would have done such a thing for realization that it would be childish and immature and would get them fired.
I can’t imagine what these kids must actually be like outside of work to feel entitled enough to call out someone, and develop a petition, not as a full employee (which would still be some bullshit) but as an intern.
They’re probably the type that either participated in or led the protests at Mizzou, Yale, etc.
Usually I’m a staunch Millennial defender but this is some next level bullshit. You get this one tick on us older generations. Can i make the observation this guys parents are probably those tools who actually buy the loaves of crustless bread at the stores cause their little bastard kids don’t like to eat the crust. Or they’re the type of parents that cut their grapes in half before eating them.
Why are you a “staunch Millennial defender?”
Instead they should have put all of them in a conference room, shut the door, blasted the heat, taped their shoes over their nose and mouths, chained their ankles to the floor, and forced them to watch endless videos of 6 year old kids in Brazil and Asia and Afghanistan making shoes for penny’s a day and see how awful their lives are. Then they should lock the conference room and place a couple of hack saws in the room and said the first 2 to make it out of this room will be offered a full time position with health insurance to cover for your missing foot. Welcome to corporate America
http://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/comments/30yxlu/mrw_ive_been_transported_into_a_child_nuns_body/
Damn, that gif didn’t work. Went ahead and “Meh” myself.
Haha, I got you Steve.
Whelp call me entitled but I bitch about not being able to wear shorts to the office when my 70% female office gets to wear whatever the hell they want.
I would gladly wear pants everyday if I got to work in an office with that ratio.
You don’t know what you’re asking for here
true its like that Twilight Zone episode with the monkey’s paw. is the 70% female majority rate a 7 or above in attractiveness?
A good amount are pretty hot but most of them are married or have boyfriends
Well soccer has a goalie, but it doesn’t mean you can’t score.
My philosophy most of the time “boyfriend is just a word”, but trying that on coworkers is the definition of sexual harassment
It’s a crazy world out there man.
I have worked on all woman teams and woman dominant departments early in my career and it is hell on earth- forget the fact you have nothing to talk about with them, especially if you don’t have kids, but the amount of backstabbing, shit talking and drama is unreal, gave me massive anxiety.
Was just talking to my mom about this over dinner. she told me about an intern she had last year who was a total try hard frat star. He got yelled at for not wearing socks. She said her boss told him “Where do you think we are? on a boat?” and so on.
I’ve worn boat shoes with no socks before on casual Friday, no problems. I can understand croakies and a visor but no socks? Sounds like your moms place sucks.