Comments on: Attitude Adjustment 101

By: XUP

XUP — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:06 +0000

Kimberly – I know, eh? Stuff that looks real cute when you’re out shopping or in the club or at the beach, somehow just doesn’t cut it in an office environment.

Violetsky – I’m sure they’d give you a summer intern, too, if you asked some local college or university! Think how much fun it will be when they’re gone.

By: VioletSky

VioletSky — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:45:29 +0000

I miss out on so much by not working in an office.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:34:04 +0000

This is so funny. We have summer interns now and then and it never fails that they break some of the guidelines you set forth. My favorite is the dress code. Some of the get-ups I’ve seen!

By: XUP

XUP — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:43:50 +0000

Grace – It doesn’t take much to impress as a student. – which augers well for those students who have a bit on the ball. Good for your daughter and thanks for the comment and visting the blog, Grace.

SDC – It’s funny that you’re calling him “kid” and you’ve just been bridged. I’d watch my back with that “perfect” student, if I were you…I’m just sayin’

By: Noha

Noha — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:41:51 +0000

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I always do this. Semidarkchocolate, above, is me. I’m writing for a cool wordpress blog called licenseplatepoetry.wordpress.com, and of course as I”m coming to check out your blog, I comment thinking I’m “myself” only to discover that I’m actually my wordpress account…
I feel like I’m starting to have an internet identity crisis…

By: semidarkchocolate

semidarkchocolate — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:39:34 +0000

Hahaaaa! I sincerely hope no one felt that way about me in my 4 co-op terms… I think it’s safe to say they didn’t during my last one, as that was my “bridge” into full-time government work.
Our group has 1 kid this summer, and he’s insanely well-behaved and he comes on time and everything…

By: grace

grace — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:13:59 +0000

Last winter when Daughter #2 moved to Toronto she had to postpone an interview with an employment agency because she had strep throat. She called, apologized and asked politely to re-schedule. She has had steady employment ever since. The reason? They were impressed that she called; usually the job candidate just doesn’t show up. Secondly, she asked right away about dress code and showed up dressed just a little more formally than that. And don’t get me started on how bored gum chewing adds to the general intelligibility of so many of our so-called service industry representatives. And I see that frickin’ earbud . . .

Lest you think I’m all down on the youth I’ll add that she has just had a panic button installed at her desk. Seems as if those of my generation (angered by some contract issues at a high profile provincial agency) are taking it out on the polite, highly intelligent and under-employed young people behind the reception desks.

I’m done now.

By: XUP

XUP — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:09:41 +0000

Susan – Ha ha, that’s funny! Once upon a time (and maybe still, in some places) and employee like you would have been a godsend (an annoying godsend, but still). Now they just label you a complainer. I’ve been there and I’m telling you there’s no point in trying to make government more efficient.

Pinklea – I’m all for casual wear at work. If I had to be all buttoned up in a suit every day, I couldn’t function. But there’s a limit. People at work in tube tops and short shorts, you want to offer them a beer, not a promotion.

Risley – She’s done a lot of hard living in her 19 years.

Linda – I think it must be. A lot of focussed attention followed by binge drinking — college/armed forces — same thing.

Leah – I think it sort of cures itself once they come smack up against the world outside their little home and school bubble. I don’t know about you, but I was kind of an arrogant shit when I was young, too. I think I’m more or less cured now.

By: leah

leah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:26:55 +0000

times sure have changed haven’t they? seems like there is an deadly epidemic of “entitlement” going on. i just hope there’s a cure.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:38:21 +0000

I remember once being on a Naval base for an emergency-really long story. The Navy is full of young people. You wouldn’t believe the wild parties they had and how many arrived at their jobs totally hung over, barely able to function. I guess sort of like college, come to think of it.