Favoring more
I came across an article on CNN the other day and have been chewing over it in my mind, trying to come up with something not mean to say. I’ve got nothing.
This woman, Trina Thompson, is suing her college career services for not getting her a job and for the distress it has caused her. She graduated with a 2.7 gpa and is complaining that those with a 4.0 are getting better service. Or as she puts it, so very eloquently and illiterately, “They favor more toward students that got a 4.0.”
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? GAH.
Is it at all possible that those with a 4.0 are easier to find jobs for? Is it perhaps that those with a 4.0 are not getting better service, but that they are qualified for more jobs? Perhaps students like Thompson whose attendance is “good” and gpa is “all right” are simply not as attractive in the field she’s looking in?
Or, wait for it, is it possible that the economy is shitty? Apparently that degree did not involve any reading of the news or paying attention to reality.
No, CLEARLY it is the career services office that is to blame.
Perhaps my favorite part of this is the length of time that poor Trina has been searching, hopelessly for a job. You see, she graduated in May. Of 2009. She’s been looking for a job for 3 whole months. WOE. IS. HER.
And clearly she should be given back her entire tuition amount because obviously that college degree did her absolutely no good. Apparently not getting a job within 3 months renders her degree useless and reimbursement is the most logical choice. Forgive me, but this sounds like a double shot of entitlement with a laziness chaser. A degree does not guarantee you a job. Consider the hundreds of teachers who were laid off this year because of the economy. Should they sue their universities?
Thompson is also encouraging others to sue their universities for not finding them jobs. Now this is a SUPER idea. Everytime an employer googles her name, this article and the reactions will show up. And if I was an employer, I can’t imagine a more attractive job candidate than the one who has sued her college. Because people who file one completely unreasonable frivolous law suit are certainly not likely to do it again if they were to be fired or laid off.
Not having a job is terrible, truly. I can only imagine. But expecting your college career center to find you one in 3 months, in this economic setting and then suing them when they don’t is despicable.
Stories like this one that make me embarrassed to be of this generation.
(p.s. yes, my head still hurts like hell, no I don’t really want to talk about it anymore. Except on twitter. Where my stream reads like one big gigantic whine fest)
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Welcome! I'm Katie, a 28 year old, full-time graduate student who just happened to have brain surgery in November of 2007 to give my ginormous brain a little more space. This blog chronicles my daily life, from relentless headaches to being a doctor's wife. Sit down, get comfortable and stay for a while.
People never fail to amaze me and this is an example of how they do so in such an embarrassingly asinine way.
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Really? People are really that dumb sometimes? She’s not lazy, that’s for sure. It takes so much more effort to sue someone than to actually just keep looking for a job. At least I think it would. I don’t actually know.
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That woman is a giant female genitalia. And now, I bet your spam filter will catch this and it will end up in Comment Never Never Land. (always wanted to see where that was…)
T.
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The world should probably sue her college for awarding her a degree without being able to speak with any kind of eloquence or correct sentence structure. Gah!!!
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Great idea. If you can’t generate an income on your own, create a frivolous lawsuit to bring the money in. And, sheesh, I totally screwed myself out of some nice cash when I found a job. On my freaking own. Damn. I is stoopid.
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Well said, indeed.
This made my head nearly explode. As a budding lawyer, I think where I started screaming at the monitor is when she said that she couldn’t afford an attorney. As if any competent lawyer would take that case.
I am also ashamed to be a part of her generation. I’ve spent all summer sending resumes and writing cover letters to get a job for next summer. I doubt this girl did any of that.
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I actually think the college should give her money back. But in return I think they should get their degree back. I bet it would make it a lot easier to find a job then!
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This story just baffles me. I don’t know why it’s getting the coverage it is getting in the media – I don’t know why someone so stupid is being given the bully pulpit. I am dumbfounded.
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I wonder what her advice to me would be. I taught for 34 years, have a masters’ degree and have been unemployed for over a year, with no teaching job in sight for the school year 2009-’10. Who should I sue? Frickin’ unbelievable!
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She just really screwed herself didn’t she? wow. not only is she going to find a job harder but she probably just made a million enemies….
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She makes me so mad. I graduated 2 years ago, with at 3.8 GPA. And have no job, nor sign of one. Yet? I’m not going to sue my university. I’ll just keep plugging along, looking for whatever I can to make ends meet for now.
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And now her “student loans are coming due.” Wait. SHE is suing? And SHE didn’t pay for this degree, the student loans did???? Wow. Someone gave her some unfrickingly AWESOME (and I’m sure FREE) legal advice, probably after their 12th shot of Mad Dog 20/20 at the Local Losers Bar & Grill.
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