The cost of failing to educate may have just gotten a little more expensive. Trina Thompson can't find a job. So she is suing her alma mater, Monroe College of New York for $72,000 -- the full cost of her tuition plus damages..
Trina Thompson, 27, is no stranger of street smarts. She survived living in the Bronx and obtained a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology from Monroe College. However, frustrated by the inability to secure gainful employment, she sued in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing them because of the stress I have been going through."
Trina Thompson, 27, is no stranger of street smarts. She survived living in the Bronx and obtained a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology from Monroe College. However, frustrated by the inability to secure gainful employment, she sued in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing them because of the stress I have been going through."
Monroe College denies any liability. The defendant claims that it offers job-search support to all its students. Thompson apparently does not have a beef with the quality of her education. Rather she feels that Monroe's career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment. After all, her attendance is good and she does have a 2.7 GPA.
Apparently only two employers have responded to Thompson's search for employment and no offers arose out of those contacts. Has the Monroe Career Advancement Center done too little or do employers prefer students with closer to a 4.0 GPA?
Thompson is not represented by an attorney. Perhaps the lawsuit itself will be an educational experience.
Ballsy move, but what employer is going to want to hire someone who is litiguous?
ReplyDeleteIt's called "personal responsibility" ... and by the way, 2.7 is not impressive. I have no sympathy for this self-entitled litigant.
ReplyDeleteShe obviously is being discriminated against. Poor to fair students need jobs too!
ReplyDeletethis is a good college. The suit is frivolous and relects badly on all of its graduates.
ReplyDeletethis is a good college. The suit is frivolous and relects badly on all of its graduates.
ReplyDeletethis is a good college. The suit is frivolous and relects badly on all of its graduates.
ReplyDeleteThere are many high skilled experience peoples out of work..it is an employers market.
ReplyDeleteIf she wishes to sue anyone she should sue her state legislators for giving billions of her tax dollars to the financial institutions that caused this recession in the first place.
I wanna job... who can I sue?
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ReplyDeleteI was spitting feathers when I first read this story. Talk about a sense of entitlement!
ReplyDeleteBut then, I did develop a certain degree of sympathy for her. The graduate jobs market is tough, really tough and it doesn't take much for hopelessness to set in. It's ok for her to be angry. It's the way that she's responded to the situation that's wrong.
She should have knuckled down and looked at what she can do to improve her chances. There's always
Trina doesn't just want the bling bling from da man. She wants a regular gig with a regular payday. Aint to much to ask when you get your degree.
ReplyDeletePost degree placement programs have not only become big business, they have become a necessity.
ReplyDeleteOnly 56 percent of the 2012 law school graduating class were employed as lawyers nine months after graduation!
ReplyDelete2013 stats are expected to be worse!
A whopping 57 percent of lawschool graduates were working in long-term, full-time positions where bar admission is required. This represents an increase of almost a full percentage point over 2012 data.
ReplyDeleteAnd the conclusion is, law school no longer is a good economical decision from a cost benefit analysis.
Now get back to studying. You will need your education to fill out unemployment applications after you graduate from law school!
No wonder some lawyers are sue happy... perhaps they are trying to avoid going on welfare!
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