Milford chronicle., 1960-06-10
Why Bosses Don't
Hire Students
BY VIVIAN BROWN
AP NewsfeafureS Writer

Many employers have become
wary of job-hnnting students be-
cause of the attitude they take to-
ward their summer employment.
Some employers feel it just isn't
worth the bother to train young
people for jobs because they some
times prove to be disappointments
What are their complaints? How
can you profit by them?
An employer who hired girl
as a waitress at summer resort
said:
Many students work at resorts
because they feel it is a vacation
in a sense. The majority are will
ing to conform to regulations but
many girls are rude to guests who
do not leave the expected tip. One
girl managed. to lose business for
us because she froze out people
who did not give her the gratuties
she anticipated. I'd rather have
mature women in the job, unless
the girls regain their perspective. ;"
Adman's Lament
An advertising man who has a
small business says that the big
problem with young people today
is that they don't want to do a
days work for the money they earn.
81 hired a girl who could do
stenography and wanted to be a
secretary. If the job worked out,
she said, she would like to go to
college at night and continue to
work in the fall
1--WE hired her but after three
weeks she was working about four
hours day. She took several half
hour coffee breaks, cigarette
breaks, ran out to shop during the
day, talked on the phone to her
friends throughout the day, took
long lunch hours, came in half
hour late in the morning, and took
a day off whenever she was out
late the night before. The final
straw was when she balked at stay
ing few minutes overtime to help
us on a special project"
Sloppy Appearance
Another employer experienced a
let-down when the girls appear
ance became a problem:
when we hired a girl to be a
receptionist in our Office, she look
ed very attractive" he explains.
"Her clothes we're just right for the
job. She was well-groomed and
looked like a young lady should
look in a job like that. In no time,
she dressed like a sloppy member
of the campus pizza pie set. When
she came to work in fiat shoes
without stockings, chewing gum,
we fired her. 1t was the only thing
we could do, but / doubt that it
taught her a lesson. Some young
girls refuse to grow up to the
trusts they seek"
One employer had a girl who op-
Grated a monitor switchboard at a
reception desk. The Office staff was
out to lunch one day and she was
left in control when an important
client called to ask a question. She
told him that she couldn't talk
then and would call him back.
When she did, she said she was
sorry that she hadn't been able to
take a message because she was
listening to the ball game on the
radio and had that particular inn
ing in the Office pool.
Employers can't afford to lose
business with inexperienced help.
Many firms have given young stu
dents the chance for summer en-
ployment in their firms, but it is
going to be difficult for young
girls to clinch these jobs in the
future unless they learn that time
in the Office belongs to the boss,
and that a good appearance counts
on job. It's a good thing to know
this when you seek a job, so that
you can impress your employer-to-
be with your eagerness to work.