Comedy gold! Mind-boggling! I know employers can be idiotic, I know managers can go on power trips, but this time the interns (not even full-time employees) tak

Comedy gold! Mind-boggling! I know employers can be idiotic, I know managers can go on power trips, but this time the interns (not even full-time employees) take the cake. Firing may seem harsh until you look at it from from the manager's POV. You have a bunch of INTERNS coming in, banding up, and trying to essentially coerce the manager into changing a company policy involving dress norms. Not only is dress code not a big issue for a full-time employee (frankly it simplifies getting dressed in the morning), but a couple of interns that will be gone in a couple of months and thus have no shared fate with the company and its employees think they can come in and stage a campus rally to accommodate some petty inconvenience? What utter arrogance! How self-absorbed! How socially challenged! What do you imagine the situation would look like if the manager hadn't fired them after pulling a stunt like that? The interns have already created an awkward situation. Instead of focusing on important things entailed by the purpose of the internship, they decided to start a confrontation over dress code at a company they have no full-time employment at. Asking whether they can wear X for reason Y is acceptable in my mind, but the petition was utterly ridiculous. They pretty much forced the manager's hand by communicating to the manager that they weren't serious about their internship and were going to waste the company's time with frivolous crap. Manager 1, immature interns 0. Perhaps they will eventually learn from this experience, though the stubborn, overconfident tone of the article suggests that it may take some time for the wisdom to sink in. They seem either unwilling to see their error or unable.