A mistake is a mistake, right? Maybe.

Nahema Marchal at Heatst.com in “Intern Dress Code Petition Is Why Everyone Hates Millennials” discusses how a 20-something intern lost his position over his company’s dress code.

Intern Dress Code Petition Is Why Everyone Hates Millennials

In the age of clicktivism, when anyone can launch a bogus Change.org petition, one undergraduate student was shocked to find out you can’t petition your way out of every uncomfortable situation. An anonymous 20-something took to Ask a Manager (an advice blog) to complain that he was fired from his internship for protesting the company’s dress code and ask for guidance on being reinstated. In the post, he explains he felt “ the dress code was overly strict” but “wasn’t going to say anything” until he noticed that one of the actual workers — not an intern — wore shoes that were contrary to the dress code. Read more…

The story is interesting, but what is even more thought-provoking is Nahema’s title. Does this behavior drive a wedge between the generations at work? I have often wondered how the millennial generation will behave in 20-30 years. Will they, too, become a part of “the system”? Guess only time will tell.

Image via: “Herir / Hurt” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Hernan Piñera