In This Economy?

So I’m gonna bend your ear a few secs about this chick who’s suing her school for the entire cost of her $70,000 education because she hasn’t found employment yet since graduation.

NOPE!

I know y’all have heard all about this. This girl, who graduated from Monroe College yet hasn’t been handed a job on a silver platter immediately after graduation. She got a bachelor’s degree in IT like four months ago from a tiny-baby college few have even heard of, her name is Trina, and she hasn’t gotten a job yet. In this economy?! Shocker! I know tons of people with considerable work experience, who don’t have stripper names, and who have been unemployed for way longer than four months. Because I don’t know if some of you have noticed, but we’re in a bit of a recession here. Basically, Trina can pretty much suck it, in my opinion.

Her accusation, as the plaintiff in this ridiculous excuse for a lawsuit, is that her college didn’t do enough to help her find a job. I don’t know what sort of expectation was set for miss Trina, but when I graduated, I didn’t exactly expect that the “Office of Career Advancement” department (or whatever it was called at my school) would be my golden ticket to employment. But maybe I’m just a realist. The way I see it, in the real world, you have to do your own shit. As in, the same real world that pretty much starts when you graduate from college, or sometimes before, depending on when your particular set of training wheels pops off. Apparently, Trina’s haven’t come off yet, even though she’s twenty-seven. Wait—what? How many years was this chick in undergrad?! She expects to get a job in four months after taking an extra — I don’t know — six years to graduate college??!

Poor Office of Career Advancement...

As an aside, I’d like to know if Miss Thompson ever received any grants or government loans during her time at Monroe, because if so, I would like to sue her for not applying herself. But according to her mommy, “She’s very angry at her situation. She put all her faith in them, and so did I. They’re not making an effort.” They’re not making an effort?! True or not, if Trina and her mom put as much effort into finding a job as they’re putting into this lawsuit-turned-PR-opportunity, she’d surely have gotten that first paycheck weeks ago.

I know I’m passing quite a bit of judgment on our friend Trina, but this is all I’ve been given to work with. She graduated, her name is Trina, and she feels that a job is just owed to her for the tremendous feat of graduating from college, something which, I don’t know, hundreds of thousands of other idiots do every single year. I’m just consistently, repeatedly, blown away by “kids these days.” I’m talking about kids whose parents call their workplace and tell their boss they deserve a raise. Kids who make 30k a year, but decide to purchase brand spankin’ new BMWs — wondering soon after why they can’t pay their bills. Kids whose parents let them move to the Big Apple without a job, just because they wanna. Kids who graduate from med school and up until recently could just slip into bankruptcy, erasing their debt without a second thought to how that might just screw over someone else a little bit.

Deep breath….

In other news, I’m suing my gym because I’m not “jacked and tanned” yet (gah!), I’m suing j.crew because I don’t look like the models in the photos (when I wear seven cashmere sweaters I just look like an idiot), and I’m suing my doctor because I have gotten two colds this year. Don’t you just think I’m an awesome person? Wouldn’t you love me to work for you someday? No?? Gasp!

Also, how many of you are considering suing In This Economy because you weren’t fully entertained by every single one of our posts that you have chosen to read for free? Oh you are? Eff off!

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Tags: 000, 70, bronx, college, education, employment, her mom, lawsuit, monroe college, recession, trina thompson

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