Monday, August 3, 2009

Be Cool To Your School?


Not if you're Trina Thompson, a woman who is suing her college for its failure to find her a job after graduation.

Thompson received her degree in information technology this past May from Monroe College in the Bronx, finishing with a 2.7 GPA and a "good attendance record." She now charges the school's Office of Career Advancement with putting "insufficient effort" into assisting her in her job search.

According to her complaint, "the office of career advancement information technology counselor did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call their graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement. They have not tried hard enough to help me."

She also complains that, "they favor more toward students that got a 4.0."

Sounds like maybe Ms. Thompson shoulda gone to law school.

3 comments:

  1. Does this mean i can sue Wesleyan for giving me a liberal outlook on life, thus causing me to work in lower paying jobs just to "do good" and thus lowering my quality of life? I think that's along the same lines as this story...

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  2. Yup, sounds fair to me! That would definitely hold up in court.

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  3. Apparently she's quoted as saying: “Any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with my academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record.”

    I would suggest that her attitude is hampering her graduate jobs search as much as anything else. Aside from anything, just be filing the lawsuit, she's made herself unemployable.

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