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FTW, an exchange between a supervisor and a former intern (from 2011)

"Just as some background info, he was an assistant manager for me last year. I was not hiring him back as an assistant manager per the board members' request. I was, however, offering him a position as a lifeguard:"

Email to intern:
I have to give my final list of guards to the board and I never got confirmation on whether or not you would like to work as a guard this summer. Is this something you are interested in? Please let me know as soon as possible so I can send my final list.

Response
I apologize for getting back to you a few weeks after your previous email. This semester I am employed by BMW as a co-op/intern, handling operations and performing various functions related to test car builds and the testing and eventual release/implementation of new content in upcoming series releases. This is a highly coveted internship that, due to my business prowess, especially that concerning the analysis of different hypotheticals, financial situations, and if-then relationships hinging on international investments, I was able to easily secure without having to bat even a single eye lash.

I have been offered a second internship with BMW, a profoundly respected world leader in luxury automobile manufacturing, for this upcoming summer and fall semesters. Obviously, looking to significantly enhance my resume to a level enabling me to one day run corporate America, I will be returning to this prestigious multinational corporation. Therefore, returning to the pool for another summer would be like Apple CEO Steve Jobs returning to Foot Locker for summer employment, especially seeing as that returning to the pool would mean being a subordinate to a woman of below average intelligence with the responsibility of teaching "ghetto" school children various topics and subjects that they couldn't care less about. This would be the equivalent of Bill Gates (Microsoft CEO, in case you were unaware) applying to work as a personal computer salesperson in a local Best Buy retail store.

I was never truly interested in managing this summer, but the absence of a job offer for a management position was both alarming and unjust. This is simply a matter of principle. In over half a decade of working at the pool, I can state with much certainty and conviction that I have never encountered a "manager" with such appalling naivety and laughable incompetence until the commencement of your employment the summer prior to the one upcoming. I understand you are a school teacher and not a professor or employed in a position that requires significant knowledge in any particular field of study, so maybe my criticism is unfair. Nonetheless, I still provided much guidance and support as you learned the ropes of managing at the pooll at the rate of a snail in the Indy 500. Did I ever complain? No. Why? Due to the fact that I am a professional and, given my advanced knowledge of operations at the pool, I wanted to bestow certain bits of my wealth of knowledge upon you.

After vacuuming the pool during early mornings last summer, coming in to work when you were unable to do so, and providing more than adequate instruction and tutelage to you, regardless of your overall lack of competence concerning very basic managerial responsibilities, one would expect that you would question the absence of my name on a list of eligible assistant managers for this summer - a list that includes two people that have YET to serve as assistant managers of the Pool. However, did you do so when informed by [Redacted]? Of course not. You showed no genuine interest in this rather odd and unexpected situation.

As I previously mentioned, though feel it is necessary to do so again for reiteration purposes, I provided guidance and instruction to you as necessary, which was a more than commonplace occurrence last summer. By that accord, I am entirely offended and utterly disgusted in your lack of concern for this situation. Do I need a summer job at a local neighborhood pool? No, as I continue my employment as a respected intern/co-op for a dominant player in the international luxury automotive industry. However, this represents a matter of principle and ethics. Unfortunately, you undoubtedly lack even the most basic understanding of these aforementioned concepts.

I look forward to a summer of continued professional development and resume building, as I add invaluable work experience to a resume already including a highly sought after education at a business school with the #1 International Business program in the entire nation. On that note, I encourage you to do the same with respect to a job coveted only by high school and college students. I implore you to enjoy making a salary that barely exceeds the poverty line and garnering the respect of professionals, I mean 3rd grade students, in your "profession."

Best Regards,
[Redacted]


I'd love to know if his supervisors got wind of this letter (since it was posted on the Internet) and if he kept that internship, or where he is now.

altschmerz 9 Sep 3
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Wow. Just wow.

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Is this guy some narcissist or is does he severely lack in emotional intelligence. Not to be rude, but perhaps a type of high functioning autism? What possesses any person to write such an egotistical, delusions of grandeur and condescending long-winded email reply is beyond me. fckkkk

The answer to your first question is yes and yes.

@altschmerz I don't think Jobs or Gates would give him the time of day after reading his letter.

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Wow, what an arrogant dick to write such a hateful, self obsessed letter. My favorite part was "until the commencement of your employment the summer prior to the one upcoming." Normal people would say "until you started last summer."

dkp93 Level 8 Sep 3, 2019

@altschmerz Agreed, I'd love to know if this letter changed his prestigious career trajectory once it became public. The largest BMW plant in the US is about 15 minutes from my house, so he might be local to me!

@dkp93 listen we are just women of inferior intelligence do not sully the good name of the ruler of corporate america now! harumph

@altschmerz Silly me, I had no idea that USC had the "#1 International Business program in the entire nation." 😂

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Here's the supervisor's response:

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