Jobless Grad Sues College for $70k - Claims Career Office Didn't Help Enough
Now I've heard just about everything.Trina Thompson, who may win the award for making the stupidest career move ever, has sued her alma mater, Monroe College, for $70,000. Her claim? She's been unable to find a job since she graduated with an information technology degree in April and she blames the school's Office of Career Advancement (a/k/a career service office) for not trying hard enough to find her a job.
Trina's mother -- surprise, surprise -- is pretty vocal in all of this and completely backs up her precious daughter and completely slams the college. Pathetic.
Do career service offices work for all students? Definitely not. Do they work for even most students? At some schools yes and at some schools no. But did anyone promise Trina a job within four months of graduation? Only if they were on crack.
Colleges used to have placement offices because they felt that it was part of their job to find their graduates employment. But those days disappeared decades ago and they aren't coming back. Colleges today are more realistic and understand that they're better off helping their students learn how to find jobs as that's a skill that they'll need throughout their adult lives. Kind of a "it is better to teach a man to fish" theory.
If you really, really want to roll your eyes really, really hard, then watch this report on Trina and let me know if you agree with my disgust in how she refuses to look in the mirror, acknowledge that perhaps she's part of the problem,and understand that she had the misfortune of graduating into the worst labor market since the 1930's.
Ha, ha, reminds me of the play "The Refund" by Fritz Karinthy....
http://www.mediastudies.yfma.com/on-education/the-refund-play-by-fritz-karinthy/
I'm sure Trina read that one!!! :)
That's hilarious. On what grounds is she suing the college if she is not personally employable?
I wonder if she even went to the career services office- when I was working at a college the students I knew complaining about not finding a job through career services rarely bothered going to the office to check on what resources were available, or didn't return the phone calls from the career services reps assigned to help them!