My son worked scnopiog ice cream at Brusters at 15 1/2, played baseball and graduated with a 3.5GPA. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.Fast food, some restaurants, vet clinics, Blockbusters, grocery stores, CVS, Walgreens, after school programs at the local ementary school balancing is all about talking to your employer about your schedule, being honest, trustworthy, reliable, dependable,a a self starter. Try it for awhile and if it is not working examine why talk to others who have a job good luck to you!

Ha! That is an excellent saying.

If starting a business doesn’t float his boat or isn’t an option right now, he might want to look for a union job, where the risk of termination on a whim is somewhat constrained by collective bargaining agreements. This could ease his fear of being at the mercy of a single employer. A union job might also be a good place to get solid training in a particular trade. As everyone knows, the only real security for the working class is in the skills you have to offer. He may have basic carpentery or other skills learned while helping his mom. These could be the basis for a trade apprenticeship. Obviously, as Evil already pointed out so well, the game playing has to stop. Remember, Machiavelli himself was arrested, tortured and exiled from public life at age 44. (Moreover, some scholars now think that “The Prince” was comical irony –Machiavelli may have been a Florentine John Stewart.)

Needless to say, most of these people did not receive a promotion. In fact, one person was fired without cause two days after she was told about her upcoming ‘promotion’.

Many people, including myself, figured it out and eventually left the company. However, I ran into one of my former co-workers at the supermarket and she was still waiting on her ‘promotion’ – she has been waiting for two years. I didn’t want to ‘bad mouth’ the boss, so I didn’t tell her that I’d figured it out. 🙁

If this person should ever work for a boss such as my former boss, it would put a lot of things into perspective. From my experience, I’ve learned what type of person I should not work for and what type of person I should never be if I should ever become a manager.

How much you want to bet he comes as a complete set including helicopter parents and over-inflated LinkedIn profile?

Yikes.

Now, come on, did this letter really come from a real person? Is this an early April Fools’ Day joke? Is there some sort of January-prank-day I don’t know about?

“I hope he understands that unfortunately, this is the nature of the game with most part-timers.”

I disagree with this. I’ve worked quite a number of temp and part-time jobs, and I find that people are generally friendly if you’re friendly with them. True, you might not get the big projects that require a lot of time in the office, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to be a pariah. As with so many things in life, you get out of your relationships (at work or otherwise) what you put in.

I grew up privileged in the sense that my parents were able to put me through college debt free – and I graduated top of my class. However since I graduated in 2010 my prospects were bleak. Guess what I did? I sucked it up, joined a temp agency, and ended up getting promoted out of a receptionist temp gig into a full time higher level position in a different department. Is it my dream job? No. Is it where I expected to be at this point in my life? No. But it is what it is, and life is what you make it.

Life is not fair, and if you sit around picking apart the levels of injustice (perceived or real) you will gain nothing. This person needs to have a serious reality check – if for no other reason than the fact that they name drop their own mother (and connections they only have due to their parents). As a general rule, nepotism is not an attractive feature in a potential employee.