Because the assignment clashed with his gym schedule, a lawyer has sparked a debate over workplace expectations after claiming that a Gen Z intern refused to report to court at 9 AM.
He said that won’t be possible, as he has to go the gym and agreed to do it as a one-time exception,” the lawyer wrote in the X post. Reacting to the post, one user shared, “I once had a junior who instructed me to assign him files only in one particular court which he somehow found comfortable. Responding to the criticism, the lawyer clarified that the issue was not the intern going to the gym. And yes, our interns are compensated and reimbursed as well. The issue isn’t the gym. It’s calling a basic work responsibility a one-time exception while making your seniors feel like they should be grateful for it,” she wrote.
Sharing the incident on X, the lawyer said that she had asked the intern to reach the court by 9 am to manage some work. “Told an intern to reach Court by 9 AM to manage some work. “No one said 9 AM is an early check in, its court and briefing. “Isn’t 9 AM the normal working time for people in court? I went to court more than a few times and I see people coming in around 8-830 AM. Even if court starts at 10 AM like in some places, isn’t it regular for people to reach office by 9 to get things in order?
It motivated me to work hard to find cases in that particular court so that my beloved junior could go to court.
However, the intern told her that it would not be possible as he had to go to the gym. The intern later agreed to take up the assignment as a “one-time exception”, the lawyer claimed. Peak unseriousness,” said another.
However, some defended the intern’s response. “With due respect, the fact that you had to specifically ask means it isn’t the norm, implying an exception. You also have to consider that they may have a schedule that doesn’t cater to it,family responsibilities, dropping someone off, etc. So, he isn’t wrong to call it one time,” wrote one user.
