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Sucks it had to end that way, but an important lesson to learn now rather. You CAN negotiate just about anything but you need to have the political capital to

• pmiller2 10y ago
  I agree 100%. This is why I say "Yes" to every single meeting request and mostly don't question the way things are done for the first few months of any new job. You have to get established before you can even hope to influence how things are done. I do feel that firing the lot of them was really an overreaction. What they should have done was treated it as a teachable moment and explained the situation and why their response was exactly the wrong thing to do. On the other hand, in their place, I'm not sure I'd want to work for someplace that would fire a whole group of people for something so small. As another comment puts it, the best places to work are those that treat interns the same as other junior employees.
  • jeffdavis 10y ago
    It may have been an overreaction in the abstract, but they are trying to run a business. If things like this had been going on for a while, then eventually someone is going to say "this isn't a political campaign, it's a business, and these interns are in the way". You can't give due process and full consideration to every inane idea. The business will come to a standstill.