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Info Tech grad sues school because she can't find work.
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NEW YORK - A New York City woman who says she can't find a job is suing the college where she earned a bachelor's degree. Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit last week against Monroe College in Bronx Supreme Court. The 27-year-old is seeking the $70,000 she spent on tuition. Thompson says she's been unable to find gainful employment since she received her information technology degree in April.
This one made me laugh. The only way she wins is a contract violation. This will fall under contract law imo. They had to promise to perform certain duties that she can prove they didn't do. Otherwise, chalk it up to everyone else who had to get a job selling shoes at Macy's because they couldn't find a job in their field.
Can't really blame a fellow American for taking advantage of our sue-happy system and society.
Except in this case its full of fail and the amount of time and money she's putting towards this ******** would've been better spent on actually finding an IT job.
Gee. That would be someone I'd want to hire. First time she didn't get her way, she'd want to sue. My school tried to help me find a job (a zillion years ago ), but the jobs they were looking at were crap.
Find your own way.
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That 70,000 tuition was not for her to purchase a job, it was for the degree. Regardless of her not being employed, she still has her bachelors degree and that is what she was paying for. I hope she loses and can't find a job because this haunts her.
Asked whether she would advise other college graduates facing job woes to sue their alma maters, Thompson said yes.
"It doesn't make any sense: They went to school for four years, and then they come out working at McDonald's and Payless. That's not what they planned."
The local community college here used to have tuition reimbursement if you either didn't find a job or couldn't transfer to a state school. That policy has now been changed of course.
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My thought is that someone sold her a bill of goods on how great a career it will be to be in I.T. and that this little college was going to magically make it happen for her.
During her 4 years of study, did she start tearing apart cans, rebuilding them, blowing up the occasional component, troubleshooting PC's for friends and family, helping out at the local non-profit agency as a technically oriented volunteer?
Did she attempt to build a server and load it with an OS (any OS, pick one)? Set up a RAID, play around with AD, shares, GPOs, DNS, or did she just do the school time and sit and eat cheetohs at home while watching TV when not in class?
$1000 for the self study course and the tests, some study time and she could get the MS cert, probably more potential in getting a job with that than with the 3rd rate degree from a run down little school in the Bronx.
Info Tech grad sues school because she can't find work.
), but the jobs they were looking at were crap. 
