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Originally Posted by Boomer

Offended. Mildly amused. Overly entertained. Righteous indignation over perceived trampling of rights. Keyboard lawyering. -- All of those things are woven into this thread -- the thread with its 15 minutes almost up.

Subjectivity aside, the name of the game is corporate politics. (And, of course, I don't mean dem or repub.) Somebody needs to tell young people the game is still the game. What do you think would have happened had this been Procter and Gamble or IBM?

It might not have been his dream job, but at least it was probably a stepping-stone job. And a job lots of other young people are lining up for, I bet.

He seems like a nice young man. And my guess is that he probably did not know any better. Because nobody ever told him.....

I spent a lot of years in secondary ed, and whether it was in my classroom or my office, I always had this Stephen Crane poem "A Man Said to the Universe" posted somewhere in sight....

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."


.......I discussed with my students what they thought that little poem meant -- and sometimes I had to remind myself.

I wish this young man all the best, but I think some thinking through the situation is in order.

Boomer

You make a lot of sense. I bet you were a great educator.