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Do you honestly believe a workplace can be productive if a group of employees are off gossiping and stirring shit up about inane things, and eventually starting up movements and petitions and wasting the time of their employers?
But considering you are coming from a position apologizing for a bunch of n'er-do-wells escalating a perfectly reasonable dress code into a fiasco, I can see why my stance can come off as "dramatic".
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There's a difference between validity and truth.
I don't think anyone is refuting the validity of your claim. They're refuting the truth of the conditions you specified for your claim to be valid. Two entirely different. things.
Also, given the context where you first specified said conditions, it can be implied that you took that condition as true for at least one portion of the workforce.
Hunger isn't an issue in the first world. The issue isn't that people aren't getting fed. The issue has been what people are being fed;people's diets are unhealthy..
Where are the people that can't survive a few days without employment, exactly? I was unaware that the water company turned your water off immediately after missing one payment, or after hearing about your firing.
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Considering you are one who believes in zombie apocalypses, I can see why you would sign into something without knowing anything about it.
If you were one of those interns in question, I would have absolutely no sympathy for you either, even if you didn't intend to support the petition, but just signed it anyway because of naivete.
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Of course I implied and intended it, but since people moved the goalposts to argue semantics like "few generally means two or three" or "doesn't count as slavery if a gun isn't held to your head even if your life is at ransom", I am just going to play the same game and be obtuse.
Tit-for-tat.
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Fiasco: a complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one. Source: google search
Pretty apt, and without embellishments or exaggeration I might say, but feel free to be outraged at your perceived exaggeration since it's the only way you get to victimize yourself.
"Oh woe is me, someone is attacking me with melodrama when he stated an orange is orange".
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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By your own subjective and prejudiced standards. You can't refute my points based on merit, so you resort to emotional arguments like "oh it feels dramatic to me so your points are discredited".
I used words exactly as they are described in dictionaries or from wikipedia, so before you continue to assert I am dramatic, you should probably bark up the right tree instead, i.e. the sources I got the words from.
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So they didn't work with the clients directly but still had to adhere to a strict dress code?
Why?
There is no logical reason to this, it's simply dumb power play of the higher ranking people.
Anyhow, I would have investigated the "different worker" before mounting an intern-rebellion.
A simple "oy, why you can wear different shoes?" would probably have enlightened them.
Being an intern sucks, but you are essentially a guest at the company, so .. suck it up and move on if you find out that it isn't bearable.
Unless, like the article says, it's violating safety etc. THEN you are right to speak up, even as an intern.
when all else fails, read the STICKIES.
Not mine.
And given that water is a monopolistic competition, they're aren't that far off from one another. Mine has a first party collections procedure they go through before sending a final demand notice. They don't turn it off until after a certain time passes after the final demand is sent/
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What kind of a prick fires ppl over something so rediculus as this? a simple "No we want this dress code and that person with the other shoes has special premission due to a disability" whouldve sufficed.
Imo a douchebag boss being an ass to interns who probobly doesnt have any prio workexperience and thus didnt really know better. I feel sad for them, its not their fault that the universitys doesnt prepare them for real life.
The better you dress the better you view yourself, the better the company is viewed from the outside, and it just promotes an all around higher quality atmosphere.
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If you don't have the balls to ask the employee why they're allowed casual dress or to ask your boss why x y z but instead form effectively a mob petition ? You don't deserve the job. You've failed a basic test in adulting. Ie. talk to your boss before doing something drastic.
Why would you want to keep people around who instantly mob up? That's an HR fucking nightmare. Only a rank moron would keep this quality of people around.
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It fits the feeling of entitlement that many millennials seem to have.
But it's also a sign of the disconnect between people coming out of school and the workplace.
I do see possibilities here for people that are serious about a career CAN do well here. It's not hard to top the competition if it's this weak!
Considering nowadays how experience in industries is a necessity in a lot of cases, slapping the hand that feeds you is a bit ridiculous.
I'm glad they got fired.
There could be, but i'm leaning towaards no. Again, I could be wrong.
Some utility companies that provide luxeries (internet and phone) have similar procedures in place.
It costs more to turn you off until payment (or worse, writing your bil off as bad debt and hiring a debt collections agency to deal with you) than it is to keep service and have a payment a few days (or weeks even)late.
It'll just sit in their aging report and they'll shout at their Accounts Receivable department.
And if they are shock words, why is so difficult for you and the other posters who expressed shock to explain in veritable terms that my usage is exaggerated rather than following the prescribed definition in dictionaries and reputable sources?
Or, are you one of those belonging to the PC crowd who gets offended and triggered over eggs being called eggs, if it's the uncomfortable truth?
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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