Special Snowflakes Meet The Corporate World, Get Fired

[dfwmtx]

Maybe one of the managers should've indicated to the special snowflake the shoe choices of the one employee were for medical reasons. Just because one guy has to use a wheelchair doesn't mean you get to drive your ATV in the office.

And there's plenty of liberals who also like the idea of mandatory national service. They just prefer that there be more service options than military ones, like Peace Corps or CCC/WPA. They also don't tie earning voting rights or citizenship to completeing this service term.

[Netpackrat]

And there's plenty of liberals who also like the idea of mandatory national service. They just prefer that there be more service options than military ones, like Peace Corps or CCC/WPA. They also don't tie earning voting rights or citizenship to completeing this service term.

Yeah, and the lack of risk associated with those types of service would have failed to meet Heinlein's primary justification for his system, in that everybody with the franchise would have demonstrated putting their own health and well-being behind that of society, at least at one point in their life. You had a right to serve, but if for some reason you were not fit for military service, they had to find something sufficiently unpleasant/dangerous for you to do, in order for you to earn your franchise.

[dfwmtx]

There's plenty of unpleasant and/or dangerous things about construction jobs, and there's a lot of infrastructure in this nation that needs to be repaired. I think a modern WPA setting out to fix things like corroding highways, rusting bridges, lead-filled water systems, etc woudl've been a good thing after the 2008 recession. We have tons of people the government is paying for being on welfare and unemployment, might as well get some work out of them. But like Clark Griswald's cousin, they're holding out for management jobs.

[Kommander]

A minor point but from my readings of Starship Troopers the only right that citzenship via national service granted was the right to vote and hold office. As far as I can recall no other rights were mentioned.

[Steamforger]

Construction deaths tend to fall under poor risk assessment and accompanying poor decision making. I cannot see wedging them into Heinleins model.

[randy]

Construction deaths tend to fall under poor risk assessment and accompanying poor decision making. I cannot see wedging them into Heinleins model.

Well, unless you're building military research facilities on Jupiter's moons

[PawPaw]

1) My first real job had a fairly strict dress code. We called it The Army.

2) When I'd complain about something being not fair, my Dad would say, "The fair comes once a year."

3) Interns, as I understand them, are unpaid positions so that people can get valuable work experience. She got valuable work experience.

[mekender]

Maybe one of the managers should've indicated to the special snowflake the shoe choices of the one employee were for medical reasons. Just because one guy has to use a wheelchair doesn't mean you get to drive your ATV in the office.

Legally they should have not mentioned it even in the meeting when firing the group... They opened themselves up to a serious medical privacy suit by doing so.

[D5CAV]

My first job out of high school also had a very strict dress code. During our "internship program" our manager went so far as to make us get the same haircut from the same barbershop, made us wear the same footwear, and would check our footwear every morning for proper shine.

I bet they made you wear the exact same clothes as everyone else, too.

Our clothes were all slightly different patterns, like snowflakes, as it were.

To my eye, I happened to be that "special snowflake" with a little more black, than tan, brown and green in the pattern of the clothing I got issued. I felt it gave me that "je ne sais quoi", especially when I used more black in my face makeup to highlight my special clothing.

[Jered]

Maybe one of the managers should've indicated to the special snowflake the shoe choices of the one employee were for medical reasons. Just because one guy has to use a wheelchair doesn't mean you get to drive your ATV in the office.

Legally they should have not mentioned it even in the meeting when firing the group... They opened themselves up to a serious medical privacy suit by doing so.

I don't think it would be medical privacy as much an EEO complaint.