by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
My God, millennials are really this dumb? Or is that post-millennials? I can’t keep track any more…
I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn’t deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers 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.
I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it. I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me. We decided to write a proposal stating why we should be allowed someone leeway under the dress code. We accompanied the proposal with a petition, signed by all of the interns (except for one who declined to sign it) and gave it to our managers to consider.
[…] They all got canned the next day.
I would have fired every one of them (except the one who didn’t sign) and I wouldn’t have waited for the next day!
Look buttercups, employment is not a democracy.
I pointed this out a couple of times to my daughter when she was growing up, and I said it in much cruder terms — in fact, I said it exactly like this:
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