Everyone has to learn the lessons of life eventually—and that is why the anonymous manager who fired almost his whole class of summer interns en masse when they petitioned to relax the company dress code is a 2016 Free Beacon Man of the Year.
This hero came to America’s attention when the ringleader of the dress code rebellion asked for advice at askamanager.org. In a letter that was one-part obnoxious, one-part indignant, and all-parts un-self-aware, this little Pol-Pot-in-yoga-pants wrote that she was “shocked” to have been let go after organizing the movement to allow workers to wear “running shoes and non leather flats, as well as sandals” and to drop the requirement that they wear “suits and/or blazers.”
After all, the intern said, she wrote the petition “professionally” and employed “arguments that were thought out and well-reasoned” just like she “learned about in school.”
Check it, youngster. Whatever you learned about in “Intro to Intersectional Wokeness” isn’t going to fly in a professional setting—not while we can help it. Our hero manager had the genius to intuit that he was facing not just a group of obnoxious millennials, but also, possibly, one of those moments in history, those sparks, those tipping points, that could bring the whole thing crashing down. If he blinked here, what would be next? State socialism, almost certainly—and then it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump to the killing fields.
Not on his watch....
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