Jobless College Grad Wants Tuition Back From Alma Mater
Having trouble getting that first job out of school? Blame your college—and sue it while you're at it. That's what a recent college graduate is doing.
Trina Thompson, a 27-year-old graduate of Monroe College in the Bronx, N.Y., is suing her alma mater for $70,000 in tuition money, the Associated Press reports. Since her graduation with an information technology degree in April, Thompson has not been able to find work. And Thompson says the school hasn't helped in the job-searching process, either.
"They have not tried enough to help me," Thompson wrote in her lawsuit.
Monroe College spokesman Gary Axelbank told the New York Post that the lawsuit is "completely without merit."
"The college prides itself on the excellent career-development support that we provide to each of our students, and this case does not deserve further consideration," Axelbank told the Post.
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Wow...
This isn't a knock on anyone who attends schools like Monroe, but a degree or certificate from schools like this doesn't get much respect out in the working world. Also, those who attend schools like this are often seen as people who are new to the country and/or are just trying to look for a shortcut to success. I literally laughed out loud after reading this article. She doesn't sound too bright. She sounds like someone who just didn't research the school, and her desired profession, enough to know that she wouldn't have it "easy" landing her dreamjob immediately after graduation, and sued just for the hell of it. What an idiot. I don't feel bad for her at all.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Is A Traitor Of The Environment.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Is A Traitor Of The Environment
By Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) located near the City of Baltimore is a disastruous school because it does not cooperate with the Environment. This University is located near the Spring Grove States Mental Hospital which its campus was part of that Hospital. As a result many of the ghosts of mental patients who died at that hospital ended up haunting students attending that University. If you think that ghosts are bad enough a threat to the living. Now imagine being haunted by insane ghosts. As a result many students, faculty and staff were possessed by ghosts long after they left that school.
To make thing worse, that University was controlled by very mean Black administrators, faculty and students. Their policies are extremely bias. There was once a Chinese a Chinese Chancellor who was being forced by by vote of no confidence in less than three years. The purpose of many faculty members were to be there to abuse students.
In short, this University was worse than a mental hospital which it once located inside!
That university also rejects Environmental principles. Environmental advocates should avoid this university which is basically a premedical school to prepare student in the medical and related field such as pre-dental, pre-physical therapy, pre-pharmacy, pre-nursing, etc... Since this school is so much a symbol and related to the arts and sciences of curing, its betrayal of the Environment will cause the Health Care and Medical System of the United States and many other places to collapse.
With this comment, the total destruction of the American Medical and Health Care Systems will begin.
Hello? The recent law grads are being asked to defer start dates
Good grief. It's well known that even law grads, who hold a juris doctorate, are being asked by the law firms to defer their start dates due to the recession (all those transactional lawyers are hurting, because not as many corporations are expanding, acquiring properties, and so forth).
Try applying in industries you've actually worked in before, because after recently landing something new, after two months of a solid effort, I got hired due to having the experience.
This is not the time to aim for things where one lacks experience, because it is a buyer's market. And, due to the economy, even the new lawyers are being asked to defer their start dates for a year, and those students, depending on the quality of the law school, have probably $100,000 plus in student loan debt.
1. This is not the time to try out something new and different. Stick to where you've got prior work experience, unless you've interned in your new area of study, if a recent student.
2. Give it more that 4 months! I have years of work experience, and it took 2 solid months of screening out the job scams that are running rampant to finally land 2 (yes, that's it, just two!) interviews, the second leading to an offer (thankfully).
3. Interview well. It helps.
4. If you sue your school over not landing a gig fast enough, your employer might fear that you're going to sue the employer for not advancing you fast enough. Not a smart decision.
That said, if the goal is to get attention from the press because you have student loan debt and are trying to land a news spot to whine about it, then this is a brilliant PR move, indeed. Get her a job in marketing something outrageous.
Last tip: When you leave one employer, write up a nice letter of praise for your former department head to have in his or her file, along with some written for really great co-workers. That way, you've made them look good to their higher up bosses.
It helps when you need future job references, and it works, too.
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