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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject: Just graduated? Can't land a job? Sue your university!!!! |
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http://us.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html
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As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe's career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.
"They're supposed to say, 'I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right -- can you interview this person?' They're not doing that," she said. |
The overwhelmingly sense of entitlement is not only found in Korea!
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like she took the phrase "job placement assistance" as a guarantee. Just about every two-bit educational facility offers that. |
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AgentM
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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That's BS! Talk about a student desperate for some money. Yeesh! 
Besides, didn't she hear? There's a recession going on. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| The reason she is suing is because she is lazy....jobs are out their....sometimes one can't be picky...just take a bs job until you land what you want! Or move to another city. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know what she expects? There's a recession going on. Here in the UK we are given out a survey for student satisfaction after we graduate for a national comparison (one of the questions is about what you are doing after 6 months). From that survey, out of the 14 on my master's course, 4 have gone on to PhD and the other 10 are either unemployed or working behind a bar. Hell, if the 10 of us can't get jobs with master's degrees what chance does she think she has with a bachelor's degree in a recession? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| Hell, if the 10 of us can't get jobs with master's degrees what chance does she think she has with a bachelor's degree in a recession? |
Depends on what was studied. |
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bassist33
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
Location: Mok-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| A 2.7? She may have something if it was a 3.7, but her grade point average alone should have her case thrown out. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:40 am Post subject: |
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The optimist in me: she is simply hoping to parlay the media attention she is getting into a job offer.
The pessimist in me: such a suit winning will result in the university passing its costs on to existing students and making it harder for everyone in the future to use such services.
The realist in me: the suit will be tossed and this snowflake will work behind a counter like the rest of us until she goes back to school or begins to gain work experience. I wonder what university would take her?
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| She should make sure she has no work where precision with written language is needed. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| I don't know what she expects? There's a recession going on. Here in the UK we are given out a survey for student satisfaction after we graduate for a national comparison (one of the questions is about what you are doing after 6 months). From that survey, out of the 14 on my master's course, 4 have gone on to PhD and the other 10 are either unemployed or working behind a bar. Hell, if the 10 of us can't get jobs with master's degrees what chance does she think she has with a bachelor's degree in a recession? |
Well, when an MA in the UK takes but a year to complete, maybe the path to graduate-level study is just too easy? |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| I don't know what she expects? There's a recession going on. Here in the UK we are given out a survey for student satisfaction after we graduate for a national comparison (one of the questions is about what you are doing after 6 months). From that survey, out of the 14 on my master's course, 4 have gone on to PhD and the other 10 are either unemployed or working behind a bar. Hell, if the 10 of us can't get jobs with master's degrees what chance does she think she has with a bachelor's degree in a recession? |
Well, when an MA in the UK takes but a year to complete, maybe the path to graduate-level study is just too easy? |
Actually, our MA lasted two years. Our top universities still rank up there with top American universities. |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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By MA, I assume you mean Masters?
At my uni, if you did an honours degree or postgrad diploma, then you don't need to do the papers year of a masters, and can just do a one year thesis.
But anyway, I've been unemployed for about 1.5 years since leaving uni, maybe I should sue them  |
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