Way-too-optimistic line of the day
- Posted by Paul Gowder on August 4th, 2009 filed in doom
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… is from someone suing her college’s career services office for not getting her a job.
As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe’s career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.
“They’re supposed to say, ‘I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person?’ They’re not doing that,” she said.
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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…
August 6th, 2009 at 6:31 am
But who will speak for students with less than solid attendance records?