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mckitterick Aug. 4th, 2009 01:57 am)
First, read this article.
Next, take a moment and consider if you know anyone this vapid and entitled. If you do, hit them up-side the head with a silver spoon.
What is wrong with people these days? Seriously!
Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx: "Waaaah! My degree didn't guarantee me a million-dollar job right out of college, boo-hoo! Everybody else in America has a high-paying job and full benefits including zero co-pay health insurance, daily massages after catered lunch in my office, and free hand-jobs, right?"
Oh, yes, Trina. And a pony. Made of gold.
PS: If anyone I know tries to pull this, I'll revoke my optimism and hope for the future of humankind.
PPS: Thanks(?) to Stuology for the heads-up.
Chris
Next, take a moment and consider if you know anyone this vapid and entitled. If you do, hit them up-side the head with a silver spoon.
What is wrong with people these days? Seriously!
Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx: "Waaaah! My degree didn't guarantee me a million-dollar job right out of college, boo-hoo! Everybody else in America has a high-paying job and full benefits including zero co-pay health insurance, daily massages after catered lunch in my office, and free hand-jobs, right?"
Oh, yes, Trina. And a pony. Made of gold.
PS: If anyone I know tries to pull this, I'll revoke my optimism and hope for the future of humankind.
PPS: Thanks(?) to Stuology for the heads-up.
Chris
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(Though since when do colleges even keep attendence records? Mine certainly didn't.)
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This is not to say it's a horrible GPA; heck, most employers don't really care about GPA if you're smart, creative, and can do the work. But using that as a point of pride, as an argument in her case? Um.
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I'm pretty sure a frivolous lawsuit and getting your name in the news would not be much of a recommendation for hire, come to think of it. Companies are scared of that kind of thing, and if I were hiring I wouldn't touch her with a very long pole - what if I needed to fire her for cause someday?
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I mean, it's not like any other graduate in the world ever had to work a shitty low-pay job to make ends meet while they looked for something else, now is it?
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Mine does (UK-based), mainly so it can sling out the people who don't turn up regularly to seminars, because, obviously, they're not pulling their weight and are wasting people's time, including their own. On the other hand, the fact that I've missed precisely two seminars in my entire academic career to date (one undergrad, one grad) is not exactly the most compelling reason in the world to employ me.
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In my undergrad days and even in grad school (US) almost all my classes were lectures. Even "recitations" were more about someone explaining stuff to us rather than general conversation. So if one person missed a class, it didn't really hurt anyone else. The exception would have been something like Senior Lab, where an absence would have impacted your lab partners. I don't know if things were different for liberal arts students, but even in the classes I did take in things like Folklore or Women's Studies, it was still about a professor speaking to a class, who could then ask questions.
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Even in technical classes, I really think something like that would have worked a lot better for me.
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rips it to shredsdiscusses it.My seminars are typically about a dozen people, talking over a text, series of texts, whatever. Sometimes there are prepared presentations, sometimes not. I find it a good model if people are willing to talk; undergraduate groups aren't always prepared to, whereas postgrad groups are generally the reverse. I think it might be easy to get lost in the lecture/questions model for a number of reasons, and I doubt it would have suited me.
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You mean, I have to do some work for it?
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Everybody else in America has a high-paying job and full benefits including zero co-pay health insurance, daily massages after catered lunch in my office, and free hand-jobs, right?
And now we all know the definition of your perfect job ;)
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three months job searching in this economic air is nothing
My second thought was "Why is she getting her B.A. at 27?" (The first one being the obvious thought.) There are a number of legitimate reasons why she may be getting her B.A. five years later/older than when I did, of course, but the article doesn't mention any reason whatsoever. It took me five years and a graduate degree to get anything remotely resembling a good job.
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There are valid reasons for not getting a four year degree (you'd rather be something which doesn't require it) and valid reasons for taking longer about it than the standard 18-22 age range (you're working your way through school in order to pay tuition). The article didn't mention either.
There are valid reasons for NOT whining about being unemployed three months out (it's a **** economy) and for NOT claiming a mediocre college record as one's only selling point.
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They probably also help the other students speak more gooder.
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As a living, breathing and functioning vocational counselor (oh, and certified) I would describe this woman as, "malingering."
Did she happen to miss those cascade crashes in the stock market? Or the sub-prime mortgage issues? Or all those banking giants stumbling and falling? Perhaps she's missed the part where a lot of her classmates are working at Sears or Applebee's to pay the rent while they're doing their job search.
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And I love your description of her.
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I've seen the same attitude in the work place where someone thinks seniority automatically means promotion (sometimes it does, but not in a good work place). They bitch and whine about someone newer to the company getting that supervisor job, until the boss pulls them aside and points out that a lousy work ethic, constant absences, and tendancy to avoid doing any actual work while trying to claim credit for everyone else's efforts does not earn you a promotion. They get you the basement cubicle with the oldest computer equipment.
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I'm at least thankful she didn't find an unethical attorney to take this on a contingency basis.
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I fear that an attorney will jump on this now that it's become public.
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I did a bit of thinking and realized that the only reason it's *that* high is she needed to get at least a low B in her major classes in order to graduate.
Which, in turn, means we're looking at a lot of Cs, ladies, gentlemen and others.
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It's a shame that stupidity such as this is more common than sense.
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her accomplishments include an crummy-to-average gpa and a good attendance record!!!
also, nice way to equate higher education with getting a job. wasn't there a time we also went to learn what it meant to be a person?
i don't even want to THINK about the lag in time between graduating and getting my gig at the college. omg...i waited tables. :/ i see i should have sued instead.
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