"funny" that my CEO's BIL/sister's kids got internships

[Mind_your_head]

even though they are "less talented". They are "well connected"/

[MineralMan]

1. This is in relation to what, exactly?

Are you having trouble getting an internship?

[Mind_your_head]

4. My kids haven't been offered any intenships.......and they are waaay higher in class rank than their

cousins.....but my HUSband, (don't have one of those).....isn't a
CEO

[MineralMan]

7. I see. Well, nepotism is a fact of life, unfair as it is.

What other internships have they been denied? How many applications did they submit? Class ranking in school is not generally a major criterion in awarding internships.

Right now, internshipss and jobs are tough to find for young people. They're even harder for 63 year old men looking for part-time work to supplement their Social Security payments.

Everyone's having a tough time here in "Amerika," it seems.

[Mind_your_head]

9. Again I say, JOBS President Obama. We need jobs

[MineralMan]

10. Sorry. President Obama can only make so many jobs.

Most of those in his administation are already full. Did your kids apply for one of those and get turned down, too?

Don't blame President Obama. He didn't create this awful situation, and he's doing everything he can to turn it around. Find someone else to blame. Or something else.

"Amerika" isn't the problem. The economy is the problem.

[MineralMan]

11. If you were a CEO, would you give your offspring

internships?

[OHdem10]

2. Welcome to the System. Elites and their kids keep the power.

[JuniperLea]

3. It has always been so...

And will always be so. Unfortunately, it's quite literally not what you know but who you know in most cases. I hate that, I really do. But my resume got me where I am now... and the heavy hitters I have worked for. The only difference is that I can actually do the job.

[bananas]

14. "it's quite literally not what you know but who you know "

Yes, and that's the biggest advantage of an Ivy League education.
It doesn't matter if you were classmates, roommates, housemates, etc.
There is an instinctive mammalian tribalism that runs very deep.

[Codeine]

5. Internships always work that way.

That's why a big part of graduate school is composed of networking, building the connections you'll need down the road.

[malaise]

6. I was allowed to hire one research assistant for the summer

My department notified me at the end of January. I told my final year students that those who applied for the position by the end of February would be considered based on
(a) mid-terms
(b) quality of writing in essays
(c) final exam.
Four students submitted applications on time.
Of those four, one met the other three requirements.
What's amazing is that the day after the exam in May, he showed up and asked if he had a chance. Twenty others also sent in applications in April and May and three showed up after finals to apply.

I hired the one person who qualified.

I refuse to hire the children of friends, family or co-workers unless they qualify like everyone else.


The young man has been with me for two weeks and I am delighted with his work. He'll finish his part of our work by the end of July.

gr. add

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[Journeyman]

8. "All these wolves raise their pups to take their places." ~ Seneca Doane.

Seneca Doane, the radical lawyer in Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt.

[tabbycat31]

12. sounds like my sister and BIL

BIL is a trust-fund baby, and my sister had everything handed to her on a silver platter. Both had high paying jobs months before graduating college.

[bananas]

13. Welcome to the Machine

Somebody should do a mash-up of "Welcome to the Machine" and "Free Man in Paris".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Machine
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/free+man+in+paris_20075302.html

[GoesTo11]

15. Jealous much?

It was probably connections, but you should be happy for your own family members. Let the rest of us be jealous of them and you be jealous of our fortunate family members, ok?

[Mind_your_head]

16. I'm not jealous......I just learned that my 85 y/o mother gave $30 to my sister

for her to buy her own birthday cake to celebrate with others in her nursing home. This is the sister who is married to one of the top earning 100 CEO's in the nation.

Not nice. One would *think* that a rich daughter could buy her mother a birthday cake, wouldn't you?

This one didn't/couldn't.

Shame.