An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Oh Cry Me a River
Now this, my friends, epitomizes the entitlement generation.
NEW YORK (WPIX) – She graduated college with hopes of swiftly finding a job in her field – but when the recession hit and jobs became scarce – the 27-year-old ran to court instead of the unemployment office and filed a lawsuit against her alma mater.
Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit last week in Bronx Supreme Court suing Monroe College for $70,000 – the total amount of hard earned cash she shelled out for tuition. Thompson claims she hasn’t been able to find gainful employment since she received her information technology degree in April.
Thompson claims the school’s Office of Career Advancement did not provide her with essential leads and career advice to help her chances of landing a job. She claims she was sent only three emails from the college with little job advice.
“They have not tried hard enough to help me,” Thompson is documented as saying in court papers. “I need a full-time job placement and that’s what they said they were going to help me with and they didn’t.”
Monroe College spokesman Gary Axelbank, says Thompson’s lawsuit is completely without merit. He said the college does its best to help find students jobs out of school but it is not guaranteed.
Seriously? The widdle bitty baby couldn’t find a job, so she’s suing the school?? Wake up sweetheart!! Look around you – there are more qualified people than you out of work. It is NOT the college’s responsibility to get you a job…sure, they may send leads, but it is up to you and ONLY you to secure employment.
Good grief – talk about entitlement! Sounds like this little chicky had everything handed to her on a platter. What about personal responsibility? I’d like to know what efforts SHE made in securing employment, or did she just sit around and wait for the college to do it for her?
Hmmm – I’d like to see what kind of company would EVER hire her now! Talk about a legal liability!
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If she is successful in her lawsuit all of the students that ever walked across the stage to grab their Anthropology Degree will be demanded their fair share, too.
there are more qualified people than you out of work.
She graduated in April, and she’s given up already? I know people who got laid off when I did in January who are still looking. And they have experience. And degrees that aren’t as worthless as “information technology” (she should sue herself for signing up for a worthless program in the first place).
OTOH, anyone who hires her gets to check the “we hired a woman to do a tech job” box on the state/federal minority hiring disclosure forms, and use her for tax credits and other programs, so that does put her at an advantage over men with no experience. I can’t find a picture of her, so I’m guessing she’s not a two-fer (i.e., white).
(I can’t describe how much I loathe those government race/gender disclosure forms. Everytime I fill one out, I wonder if they hired me for my brain or my genitals.)