With its story about a college alumna who sued her school because she hasn’t found a job, CNN gave me yet another reason to hate people.
Trina Thompson, this slug-brained moron, has a 2.7 GPA from some shitty little no-name school in the Bronx. She paid this school tuition for an education with the promise of a degree if she completed all necessary requirements. I don’t have to know anything about the college or how they have their tuition set up to know that there was nothing in any document she signed that guaranteed that she would find a job. There was no promise, implied or otherwise, that she would be gainfully employed as a direct result of her education. She paid for an education and received it, and did rather badly, as well.
From the article: “She suggested that Monroe’s Office of Career Advancement shows preferential treatment to students with excellent grades. “They favor more toward students that got a 4.0. They help them more out with the job placement,” she said.”
Maybe they “favor more” people who can “good speak done English,” you fucking brain-dead twit. I’m guessing that the Office of Career Advancement took one look at your resume, which was probably written in purple crayon on the back of one of those paper Denny’s menus that double for your placemat, and decided that you were a lost cause. They correctly assumed that rather than throw the benefit of their experience and knowledge at the blank wall you call a brain only to watch it slowly slide down to the ground and drift into the gutter, they should work on someone with promise and possibility.
Someone who wouldn’t go to court and file a pro-se lawsuit because (a) she can’t afford an attorney and (b) even an attorney from a fourth-tier law school like Touro would know not to waste more than a picosecond considering this case.
Someone with the self-respect to take responsibility for her life, which includes not blaming a third party for everything that happens to her.
Someone with integrity and value to society.
Anyone other than this stupid vacuous lifedraining parasite. Fuck you, Trina Thompson.
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Twitter: SarcasticMomLC
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Can we sterilize here immediately? Thanks.
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@Sarcastic Mom, people like her definitely should NOT breed.
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Twitter: SarcasticMomLC
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Also, wtf, I corrected that typo before I hit submit. Your comment form hates me!
Damn.
I guess I’m next in line for a Stupid Beating. Heh.
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@Sarcastic Mom, you’ll get a pass. Everyone gets one pass.
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Twitter: michellew_
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You really shouldn’t hold back like that. It’s just not healthy.
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@michellew_, I know. I need to work on that.
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Aww, another reason to have faith in humanity…
I deal with people like this daily at work.
BTW, ever since that conference, you know the one…I’ve been referring my peeps to ur site. My work people appreciate some realistic and good snark!
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@Julie @ Angry Julie Monday, well, then, welcome to your peeps!
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Twitter: s_csr
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What she doesn’t seem to get is that most schools that guarantee placement, can send you to jobs of any sort – even if they have nothing to do with your degree. The better students that can’t find jobs get hired to do something at the school. The students that suck at life get sent to McDonald’s.
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@Sheila (Charm School Reject), oh yeah – some of those trade schools guarantee a job. I would bet even McDonald’s would reject this moron, though.
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Thanks. Now I hate people too.
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@Myg, I love to spread the discontent and cynicism. Makes me tingle.
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Um, I know people here in this state who have Masters and who graduated with insanely high GPA’s- and they are currently unemployed.
It’s called the economy, moron. Geez. (Her, not you.
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@adena, exactly. She should sue former President Bush, too.
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Where’s Darwin when you need him?
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Twitter: SarcasticMomLC
, August 4th, 2009: 12:23 AM
@califmom, REALLY.
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@califmom, there’s still hope.
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Twitter: http://whall.org/blog
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I thought you *liked* women who were mentally challenged.
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@whall, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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@whall, so what are you saying about Britt?
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Twitter: http://whall.org/blog
, August 5th, 2009: 8:16 AM
@Avitable, what, you like her?
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Twitter: tlkaply
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I just read the pdf of her filing. She’s a moron, and in an economy in which people with actual skills and excellent grade point averages cannot find jobs, it’s not surprising to me at all that she is not employed.
Sometimes, this culture of entitlement makes me want to stab people. Ok, more than sometimes.
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@Tracy Lynn, will you email me that PDF pretty please?
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Thank you. Thanks for being so mean and honest so that those of us who can’t, can enjoy living vicariously through you. (Spell Check, don’t fail me now!)
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@Staceylt, it’s what I do!
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Twitter: Amanda234
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good lord
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@Amanda, you’re speechless? Wow.
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Clearly she has a case. She seems to have forfeited her education, so perhaps a refund is in order.
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@RebTurtle, well, they tried to fulfill their end of the contract, even if she refused service, so she still owes them.
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Twitter: Bellaventa
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Wow….just wow.
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@Robin, can you find this person and just punch her in the head?
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Exactly.
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I’d like her resume. I’m looking for an entry level idiot at my company. She’d be part of the perks package for the other employees, filed under comic relief.
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Twitter: Whatsananna
, August 4th, 2009: 9:11 AM
@BusyDad, actually, what a great perk that would be!
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@BusyDad, I would consider that to be part of a stress/anger management program… I’d be more likely to punch her square in the face than laugh at her. And god, would I feel better after!
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@BusyDad, that’s a good idea. I might look for my own local idiot, too.
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I remember some odd stories from my business law class. One of those , “AUFKM” Are you fucking kidding me ones, was the guy who committed the San Ysdido McDonalds massacre. Claiming that the McDonalds food and junk food which in the court room was listed as large amounts of Twinkies and such lead to the perp not being able to think clearly, and led him to pick up the gun and kills all those people.
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@ChickenLiver, WHY ARE PEOPLE ALWAYS BLAMING EVERYTHING ON ME? IT’S ALWAYS “MY FAULT!!!!!”
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@ChickenLiver, yeah, I remember that case. Of course, what that has to do with business law is beyond me.
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@Avitable,
I think it was about your business, lawsuits against your product etc. I don’t remember all that clearly it’s been awhile since I took that class.
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I’m thinking of suing myself, or more specifically, my lack of drive and laziness genes. They are really holding me back.
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@SingleParentDad, I can act as your character witness if you need.
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uuuuh…Really? Like,…really!Sweetheart needs a few weeks digging ditches or emptying bedpans. Or she could be OctoMom’s personal assistant.
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@ML, she needs to just FOAD.
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The sense of entitlement that some people have is baffling. My business has grown considerably since moving (I’m one of those people with a degree, high GPA and no job, so I started my own business) and I keep running into these twatwaffles that seem to think I’d like to work for free.
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@Jennifer, she needs to feel entitled to a smack in the head.
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Twitter: Faiqa
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Oh, those bad, bad 4.0 students who take up everyone’s attention. Who do they think they are? How awful that your mediocrity is second in line to their excellence!
This does bring to light the serious topic of student expectations, the cost of education and whether these people are getting their money’s worth. I read somewhere that she’s suing the school for $70K. I assume that she is NOT seeking emotional damages and that this was the cost of her tuition. If so, 70K for an undergrad degree in business is ludicrous, and I wouldn’t think her expectations for additional assistance in finding a job was unwarranted.
Nonetheless, she is an idiot for trying to sue them.
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@Faiqa, $70K is less than $18K a year. The standard college tuition is $22-25K a year.
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Twitter: Faiqa
, August 5th, 2009: 10:38 AM
@Avitable, “Standard”? Where’d you get that? Using your super duper premium membership at funfactgeekboy.com? If you repeat your response aloud in a nasally voice, you will quickly realize how MUCH of a geek you are. King of the Geeks. Make that of the Doofs.
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Twitter: Kapgar
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That story made my skin crawl, too.
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@kapgar, now I want to read the complaint and see if it’s as bad as I’ve heard, too.
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Hey, I’ve done some of my best work on the back of a Denny’s placemat!!But I would NEVER use a purple crayon. Blue is the proper business crayon.
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@Paticus, that’s right. Everyone knows that blue is work appropriate.
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It takes all kinds….really!!
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@Rachel, yeah, but some kinds should just be shot and thrown in a ditch.
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That is the problem with the youth of our country now. (Do I sound like an old bitter woman?) No one wants to take responsibility for their own lives. Anytime anything gets fucked to high holy hell…some other dumb fuck was the reason for it.
This chick sounds as useless as a fingerless lesbian.
CP
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@CP, a fingerless lesbian still has an arm, though.
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This chick sounds as useless as a fingerless lesbian.
CP
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Surely you meant “twat” instead of “twit”?
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@JD at I Do Things, she doesn’t even deserve the grace of an insult like “twat”.
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You all fail to see the evil genius in her plan. She *intentionally* targeted this school, earned poor marks, and tried not to get a job…all so she could have a honey of a lawsuit. Thinking of how to get sympathetic jury members, she even timed it with the economic downturn, correctly assuming several of them would likely also be out of work and more open to her argument. This whole thing is the plot of a secretly 4.0 student to breeze through the Harvard Law School application process, meticulously calculated down to the poor grammar in the press releases and public comments. I say kudos for her creativity and gusto!
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@Zach, it may have worked before – I think I know someone who graduated from Harvard Law who did that. At least they seemed so stupid that I think they did that.
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Surely she didn’t apply at McDonalds or Burger King. If she can spell GPA, then she is pretty much guaranteed a job there, maybe even for Head Fry Chef or Lead Burger Flipper.
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@Badass Geek, oh, I’m sure she didn’t apply there at all. She probably didn’t apply anywhere because the Career Development Office didn’t help her in any way.
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are you fucking serious- how annoying and lazy and retarded can people GET!? Fuck!
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@christie, if only she was the worst that people could get.
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Stupent…oh wait this should be in yesterday’s post
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@Jenn, or a graduhate.
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Twitter: GrandeMocha
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I graduated with a 2.67 GPA from the University of Michigan and that was nothing short of a fucking miracle. As my statistics prof said, “Smart girl, not good student.”
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@GrandeMocha, oh, my college GPA was pretty shitty, too, because I never went to class and had more fun than I should have. I’d also never consider suing my school if I hadn’t gotten into law school.
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I’m so fucking tired of people being unable to take responsibility for their own crap. We live in a society of sue-happy whinebags and it’s just a bit too much.
/grouchy old woman
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@Hilly, I agree. With your statement, not that you’re a grouchy old woman.
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Twitter: msmegan
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Perhaps she should also sue the New York State Board of Education for allowing her to graduate high school with being able to spell.
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Twitter: msmegan
, August 4th, 2009: 9:40 AM
@Finn, um, WITHOUT being able to spell. Totally took the sting out of that comment, didn’t it?
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@Finn, It would technically be the New York City BoE, since she lived in the Bronx. Not that it would do any good, the schools there are already hurting bad enough, she’d be lucky to win a few vintage textbooks out of the settlement. For the record, when I attended a NYC high school 12 years ago, the drop out rate was 50%, they will graduate anyone willing to sit through four years of student/teacher stabbings and sexual misconduct.
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@Finn, nah, I read the context. We’ll chalk it up to anger getting the best of you.
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Trina, you dumb, fucking slut.
Seriously.
GAH.
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@Sybil Law, well, we don’t know that she’s a slut. If so, maybe there’s a job she can get after all!
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Just another person with a sense of entitlement taking no responsibility for the slacking she did in college. On the other hand at least she went to college (maybe the no name school was all she could afford) and is sort of trying to get a job rather than work the system.
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@Summer, “sort of trying to get a job”? That’s not what I’d call this.
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“Someone with the self-respect to take responsibility for her life, which includes not blaming a third party for everything that happens to her.”
She sounds like a perfect candidate for the Captain Saveaho School of Despair!!
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@Miss Britt, yeah, but I don’t think she’ll want to pay our tuition. And we don’t guarantee shit.
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You’re not even up to reason 5,000 to hate people? Amateur.
I graduated from DeVry University, an institution more respected than MIT, NASA and Mensa combined (according to their 3rd rate web site), and I actually considered suing them, not because I didn’t find a job but because they failed to live up to any of their advertisements. They claim you will be taught by field experts instead of people who have never ventured beyond academia, which is true for the lower level courses, but seniors mostly get low-paid immigrants with poor English who have never worked a real job and don’t even understand the basics of what they teach. The final insult was their claim that over 90% of their graduates find a job in their field of study within six months of graduating. Nobody that I know who graduated from there met that criteria, and in fact after claiming they had wonderful job placement capabilities, the only thing they did was mass e-mail an offer for a job opening at another university nearly a month after the opening was originally posted. I think somebody should sue them, or preferably set them on fire.
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@Grant, I’ve heard that about places like DeVry and ITT Tech. I had plenty of people who barely spoke English as professors in law school, but they were people who wrote their nation’s constitution or something and so I gave them a pass.
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Twitter: hismuse
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We should start an “I Hate People” club, oh wait, that’s bloggers.
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@Robin, yeah, if you own a blog you are automatically a member!
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Oh sure, now I want Denny’s. Thanks, a lot.
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@Ren, me too. I love their burgers because they somehow taste like breakfast.
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Twitter: Jayman3768
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She should have chosen a better school.
70 grand for a business degree? She could have gotten one of those for less than 1/3 of that price and not felt nearly as bad about herself.
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@Jay, I could have given her a business degree for $100 and a handjob.
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Dude do you live in my head, cause I just gave this rant to my husband. You want to know something asinine? My union retains a lawyer, why I asked when I joined, in case you get sued they told me, by a student, for failure to educate. Are you fucking kidding me? I teach at a college, not a high school…..makes little differance some days.
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@mountainmomma18, well, I have had some ineffective professors in my long education, so I could see that being a real concern if the professor doesn’t teach what he or she is supposed to teach.
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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don’t mind me, i’m just over here weeping for the future.
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@hello haha narf, I’m the hole in your optimism umbrella.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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I have no response to that.
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@B.E. Earl, you live in the same city – go tell her what you think to her face.
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Twitter: karensugarpants
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ugh. idjit.
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@Karen Sugarpants, zacly.
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Twitter: lceel
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I believe the more complete phrasing – given that we ARE prone to erudite commentary here – is “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on,” etc. N’est ce pas?
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@lceel, damn. Way to be crude and muddy up my nice, refined blog.
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She’s a poster child for lobotomy.
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@Kris, sterilization is more along the lines of what I was thinking.
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You don’t even know what it like to be a women and making get through school mr smart pants. What gpa even did you have? You like to you talk tuff about these things but hide behind the internet behind a computer screen just talking of the stuff. IF you think YOU can even do better i dare you to. What I think it would be funny is if this young lady did find your blog and decideds to sue you and make you pay for libals and the things you want try to say about her. Good luck getting out of that one avitable!!!
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@anonymous, at least I know you’re not the aforementioned idiot because I highly doubt her ability to use a computer.
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Twitter: poppycede
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Was she in school to be an attorney? Oh please, yes.
What the hell is up with this anonymous person up above me? Decideds is NOT a word. But if enough people use it then it becomes one. Ahhhh, America.
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@Poppy, oh, that anonymous, such a ‘clown’.
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Twitter: Metalia
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This. THIS IS WHY I HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME WHEN I ADMIT I LIVE IN THE BRONX. We’re not all like this, I swear! Had I attempted to write about this story, it’d likely have been a stream of consonants and random symbols, on account of my head repeatedly slamming into my keyboard. So thank you, Adam, for putting into words the rage that I so deeply feel. Because…my god. (You are so brave to have written it, considering the threat of “libals” looming.)
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@metalia, I will happily brave the onslaught of libals!
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I thought they were trying to crack down on stupidass lawsuits, weren’t they? I only hope the judge that gets this case is…in.sane.
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@Tug, just because she filed the suit doesn’t mean that the judge will consider it to have any merit at all. So there’s hope.
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She can’t spell “tuition,” either.
Perhaps she should learn to say “Do you want fries with that?” Or, perhaps, “Welcome to WalMart.”
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@Mamacita, I’d prefer “Change, please?”
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Twitter: perpstu
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What a douche. I hope she loses and the judge makes her pay the schools legal fees too. People like that need to have their heads examined. Or smacked. Maybe a little bit of both.
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@perpstu, any type of frivolous lawsuit should always end up with the party filing suit paying for all legal fees.
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Aren’t you a lawyer? You probably have heard some pretty awesome stories that beat this one!
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@Hipm0m77, never practiced, so, unfortunately, I don’t have that many good stories.
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That’s hilarious. On what grounds is she suing the college if she is not personally employable?
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@Technology Slice, that they somehow guaranteed that she’ll find a job by giving her a degree? Who the fuck knows!
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I work for a University and I help with some job placement for students. What I have found is that there seems to be dangerous sense of entitlement with these kids. I don’t want to speculate if it is a generational thing, or whatever, but some of the shit these kids pull is just BALLSAY!
I set one kid up at an interview, who had a GPA 0f 3.25, not stellar, but not bad. I won’t work with anyone who has less than a 3.0, unless they are highly active in the program and obviously motivated. He showed up 15 minutes late, and though he was wearing a sport coat, he also wore JEANS. TO A JOB INTERVIEW WITH A LENDING INSTITUTION.
I had one student try to convince me to convince his professor that he did not deserve to fail his class and that he should have been given and Incomplete, because though he forgot to do a few projects, he could make them up in a few weeks. Um, the semester is over, Little Dude, you’re a day late and three projects short.
And these are business majors from a real university.
It’s crazy
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@Katy, there definitely is a sense of entitlement and laziness. It’s not with every kid, though, which is nice.
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Twitter: themuskrat
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You’re an insensitive asshole. Schools should absolutely have a duty to find a high-paying, minimal-work-requiring job out of college for all their graduates. Especially public schools. Let’s raise taxes again to make sure the extra personnel required to be on staff to find Ms. Dumb Cunt a job can do so, whether in the Bronx or any other public school in this country. Everyone knows a meritocracy is inherently racist anyway. She is owed employment. And not with Payless or McDonald’s, apparently.
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@muskrat, she deserves a high-paying white collar job, you’re right! I see the light now!
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Excuse me, she is entitled to be headhunted by the Fortune 500 companies because she had a 2.7 GPA and GOOD ATTENDANCE! What kind of company would want to pass up that bit of goods? I am sure her attitude is fantastic as well. Somebody give her a six figure income already!
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@Mars, maybe she could be the next CEO of GM.
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Twitter: alotofnothing
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She could get a job as a public school teacher.
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@Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing], well, to be fair, half of the public school teachers I’ve known were smart, decent people. Of course, the other half were fucking morons.
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Angie,
That is mean and uncalled for. More than half this country was raised on public schools. Teaching is a hard, underpaid and at times thankless job. In fact you can thank a teacher that you can write “a while lot of nothing.”
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@ChickenLiver, there are just as many idiot school teachers as there are hard-working good ones.
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Twitter: nycwatchdog
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This is what I get for being wrapped up in mundane shit and not keeping tabs on a TRUE news service such as yourself.
I think I just hired her.
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@NYCWD, you may be called as a character witness, then.
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This is hysterical. The Monroe College graduation gown is quite funny too. It is royal blue with a 5″ school logo patch.
Also, I’m quite relieved to see that no other fools were involved and she was representing herself.
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@MariaV, I don’t think a blue gown is that ridiculous, but the logo seems a bit much.
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Twitter: coalminersgd
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I couldn’t quite believe this story, either. And I think this post was quite eloquent in how everybody feels about it.
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@Coal Miner’s Granddaughter, I am obviously the voice of the people!
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Did you seriously just insinuate that Adam’s writing is “eloquent?” Now he’s never going to fit his head through the door.
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Twitter: coalminersgd
, August 10th, 2009: 10:40 PM
@RebTurtle, Or his dick.
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@RebTurtle, oh, I already consider myself eloquent.
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