Do you have any kind of code of conduct or anything that poll workers are supposed to abide by? If you do, I would email your coordinator (whoever told you where to be an when and trained you?) and say something like, "Hi, I have some concerns about some things I heard during my work which were not in line with the Code of Conduct. Who should i discuss this with?" If there isn't a Code of Conduct, or you don't know if htere's one, I'd email and ask if there is one!
The hotel I stay in in Euston when I go down to London for work has a £15 breakfast. (It's included in our room rate, but for some reason we had to get the breakfast-by-itself rate once.) It is AMAZING though - a massive, massive buffet with fresh breads and pastries and yoghurt and fruit and fruit coulis and cooked breakfast and omg it is very very nice.
I have only seen this suggested by white people, and the black people I follow on Twitter are like, "this is about you getting cookies, right?"
I agree it's a good lesson,which is why I think the response should have been a manager going, "OK, you've clearly misunderstood some stuff, here's how this works, get the hell out of here and don't let me hear about any more stunts like this".
What I don't get is that it's either public knowledge that Lorraine only has one leg and has a reasonable adjustment (UK term, don't know what the equivalent is), in which case why didn't any of the managers just say that straight up, or it's not, in which case telling them at the "you're fired" meeting was also a massive and inappropriate breach of Lorraine's privacy. You can't have it both ways!
Fundamentally, I think a company that needs to fire its entire intern cohort has massively, massively fucked up somewhere along the way.
Losing your job for naivety is a pretty steep learning curve.
Yeah, but - either it's widely known that that other employee has lost a leg, in which case the manager could have said, "Oh yeah, Lorraine's disabled, so it's a reasonable adjustment. Everyone else has to follow the rules!" Or else it's not often mentioned and the employee doesn't want it shared widely, and the management team just brought it up to make the interns they were firing feel bad. You can't blame the LW for for not instinctively knowing that someone was disabled if none of the interns (who had apparently also discussed the dresscode with their managers!) knew!
Yes, and I am so, SO bored of seeing diehard-Corbyn supporters basically saying, "anyone who thinks actual leadership skills are important in leading is a war-monger Blairite!" The name-calling and stereotyping on both sides is the most depressing thing in the world, and I say that as a Labour party member.
Like, if it's true that he's revitalised the party and brought in new members and enthused grassroots staff, that's amazing! Let that be his legacy! But let someone else take up that legacy and lead us into a general election if there's going to be one this year, because he's so not the man for that job.
Also, let's just never forget that it's a hell of a lot easier to be ideologically pure when you're a white straight man.
Bit worried that the dick ribbon in #2 looks like it's vanishing straight into his skin and also there's no room for an actual dick, though?
Genuine question: what is an internship for if it's not to learn these kind of things? Are they just supposed to come in knowing it?
OK, I really disagree with this. As I said above, I'm a careers adviser and I've worked with a lot of first-generation students and graduates who don't have a family background of professional and corporate environments, and I don't read this as entitlement at all. The tone of this letter is bewildered: as far as the LW concerned, they wrote a formal profesional proposal modelled on "the examples I have learned about in school", and it went horribly wrong.
Writing to AAM as a reality check and to find out whether the company was wrong or whether they'd really misjudged the corporate environment is a really sensible next move if they don't have mentors or family members they can discuss this with.
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