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In reply to the discussion: Article: I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The vast majority is not every one. Also, the majority of your students were undoubtedly working for discretionary spending money, plus perhaps meeting the dreadful hardship of being required to save some money toward some large purchase their parents required them to help kick in for. The majority were not working to help their parents feed the younger children, though if relatively poor they may have had to buy their own nice clothes if they wanted any and help out the family in a crunch.
Our children are raising their kids in solid middle middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods. I recognize the attitudes well enough. The more modest-neighborhood neighbors just got to bail a 16-year-old out of jail who thought the police couldn't treat people "this way" and may have learned the hard way that challenging cops when they ask for your license is a bad idea. May because that seems to be slow in coming. They're both bemused and amused to realize they raised such a dumbass kid who now "understands" why people join terrorist groups, but the kid probably literally never walked farther than the subdivision pool area alone until he was in high school.
In any case, like others I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this group had a leader who instigated a group-think that this was a reasonable and appropriate way for people preparing for mid-level jobs to approach a workplace problem.