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| mamekonomi | Posted – 4/22/2005 4:36:17 PM | show profile http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=81497 FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 Young journalist cries and cries after Spin mag rejects her North Adams Transcript Krystal Grow was crushed when her summer internship application was ''flatly rejected'' by Spin magazine. After pressing for a reason, ''I was told that being 'snippy' to a prospective employer was 'unbelievably off-putting,' even if they had already decided not to give me the job.'' Grow says she went home and cried ''until I passed out, then woke up and cried some more.'' |
| nonono | Posted – 4/22/2005 4:52:14 PM | show profile Wow. She's got a long, hard, wet road ahead of her. |
| La_Semeuse | Posted – 4/22/2005 4:53:22 PM | show profile That column just ruined her career. How could her editors run that garbage? Maybe they hate her as much as every NY editor would if they read that piece. |
| mamekonomi | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:03:21 PM | show profile reality check One of the more mind-blowing passages: http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9054~2830784,00.html ''I first stumbled upon the internship opportunity on SPIN's Web site, and decided to take a shot at it. The application required a cover letter and resume, and three to five clips of published work. Three to five? I had at least six in my portfolio from my time here at the Transcript and with MCLA's paper, the Beacon. Along with camera-room experience and graphic arts certification, I assumed I was a shoo-in and started looking for apartments in the East Village in my spare time.'' Bur not sure if it was the assumption that she was a shoo-in for the internship, or that she could afford the EV apt. on an unpaid internship.... |
| clairezulkey | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:09:45 PM | show profile | email poster ah, I feel for her. yes, that's how it goes but you're still allowed to be crushed when you're rejected. ------ Editor of MBToolBox |
| slink | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:15:00 PM | show profile A girl getting rejected for an internship is not news. |
| mkelly | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:39:16 PM | show profile Are we sure that wasn't something concocted by The Onion? Otherwise, I can't believe nobody stopped this girl from careening off her self-absorped cliff. |
| LAgal | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:43:16 PM | show profile ''These kids today...'' Ah, the voice of immaturity – with a few sour grapes thrown in for good measure. What got me was when she whined about how they didn't immediately answer her demands to know why she wasn't hired. She's lucky they responded at all. Companies aren't obligated to explain to every applicant why they weren't hired. And when they did tell her why, she got all uppity. She should dry her tears, take the guy's advice and stop using cutesy fonts in her resume so it will ''stand out.'' Good grief. Must have been a slow news day at the Transcript. You have to wonder what the poor, misguided girl's editors were thinking. |
| Janeofalltrades | Posted – 4/22/2005 5:54:56 PM | show profile Oh man, when I started looking for jobs and even internships when I was in school, I could have wallpapered my entire crappy basement apartment with all the rejection letters I got. She'll learn rejection is an all-too-common experience in writing. You know, after writing about this experience at the paper where she's currently interning, I'm kind of surprised to see that she's still working there. If I were her editor, I'd kind of read that article as a lack of enthusiasm for her current position and look for someone else more eager. |
| jacks7 | Posted – 4/22/2005 7:44:04 PM | show profile <<First of all, what does an editorial intern coordinator have to do with the production schedule of a magazine? I read SPIN a lot, and have seen this man's name under a few minor album reviews. Nothing that would delay anyone's schedule. I had gotten a lame excuse for his procrastination, and he obviously didn't take my inquiry seriously.>> Obviously she doesn't know much about magazine publishing. She has an unrealistic view that all the ''editorial intern coordinator'' does is set up internships. He's probably overworked, and the last thing he has time for is people like this. |
| westsidestory | Posted – 4/22/2005 7:45:59 PM | show profile sounds like a spoof to me. Krystal Grow? |
| Careen | Posted – 4/23/2005 9:21:13 AM | show profile Very stupid! and so is the dumb intern. Perhaps truck driving school is in order for the lass? |
| anonymouse | Posted – 4/23/2005 10:04:51 AM | show profile Perhaps in the bad old days of SPIN, when founder Bob Guccione Jr. used his casting couch to pick interns (this really happened) she would have had more luck. |
| skurczysyn | Posted – 4/23/2005 10:28:56 AM | show profile This sounds like what you get when mommy and daddy raise a child via nanny and try to make up for their negligent parenting by kissing their kid's bum and showering her with undeserved praise for the few hours they spend with her on weekends. |
| jsk | Posted – 4/23/2005 12:03:31 PM | show profile Ah to be young, inexperienced, and convinced that you're going to change the world. Hasn't everyone gotten upset after getting rejected during that first post-college job search, especially if it was a position they thought was a lock? You get pissed, and actually think that you deserve a reason why you got passed over. I would imagine that everyone out there has called up at least one HR person and asked why they didn't get a particular job, especially early in their careers.... Now, telling everyone that she was going to New York to work for SPIN, before she ever got the job, was unbelievably naive. Also, writing about it in a public forum makes her look like a whining, spoiled brat who expects to always get what she wants. So, as far as I'm concerned, the feelings she displayed were normal, while some of her behavior before and after the rejection (including the essay... her current employer must love being called ''sloppy seconds'' in their own paper) was pretty awful. |
| can't say | Posted – 4/23/2005 12:14:10 PM | show profile You guys are being really harsh on this kid. With her attitude, she would fit in great at the New York Times. |
| VillageGal | Posted – 4/23/2005 12:36:08 PM | show profile Feeling disappointed is one thing but publishing this piece about her experience is impulsive and self-destructive to her career. |
| LAgal | Posted – 4/23/2005 1:03:03 PM | show profile Sure, her feelings are normal to a degree. I can totally understand feeling down about rejection. But I don't recall having such a bloated sense of entitlement when I was starting out in journalism. I certainly didn't brag to people that I was moving to a particular city (and invite them to come along, no less!) before I had even gotten a job there. |
| VillageGal | Posted – 4/23/2005 1:29:04 PM | show profile So true about her bloated sense of entitlement; SPIN probably gets hundreds of applications for a few slots but she was positive she'd land it. Wow- this girl is in for some rude awakenings. |
| redheadedone | Posted – 4/23/2005 5:31:48 PM | show profile Do you think she's OH PLEASE's roommate? They both have that same sense of snotty entitlement and navel gazing. |
| Trixie Firecracker | Posted – 4/23/2005 8:16:40 PM | show profile Rejection is a fact of life! When I was in high school, I applied for the summer program at Boston College. I was sent a rejection letter essentially saying that judging from my grades, I didn't apply myself in classes, and thus cannot handle the ''rigorous'' BC summer program. Keep in mind the only bad grade I had was in chemistry - and I DID apply myself ... I'm just not scientifically inclined. And the program I was applying for was for literature and creative writing. Was I crushed? Yeah ... especially because they made wrong assumptions about me in their rejection letter. But since BC wasn't my first choice it was easier for me to move on (though at BU hockey games, I shouted ''BC sucks'' louder than everyone else). The letter Krystal Grow received from Spin didn't seem to outright say she sucked, like the letter I received from BC. Of course, any rejection letter - no matter how vaguely or sensitively worded - is a blow. And I think Ms. Grow should expect many more thanks to her whining in a very public forum. |
| newnametoday | Posted – 4/23/2005 10:13:23 PM | show profile funniest lines of the article: ''Lastly, and most importantly, his reasons for rejecting my application were the font I used in my resume and cover letter headings, and that I didn't show a ''passion for SPIN magazine.'' So I used an interesting typestyle. I thought it was creative and would make my application stand out. Apparently, it made me seem ''less serious.'' |
| j.hodl | Posted – 4/23/2005 11:22:51 PM | show profile Hmmmmm..... Apparently it was a slow news day at the North Adams Transcript... But could it be that the person hiring the summer interns had already made his/her choice and had to disqualify the other candidates? I'm reminded of a story I heard at an RV magazine where the HR woman considered ten candidates for a senior editor job and selected... her live-in boyfriend! ''He had the best credentials,'' Ms. HR later said, defending her decision after the magazine found out their relationship. The owners found out because Ms. HR openly argued with her hire, as once he assumed the job, began hitting on all the other women in the office. She was always ordering him to get her stuff out of her apartment unless he became loyal to her. The owners fired Ms. HR right away. Her boyfriend lasted a year on the job. |
| clairezulkey | Posted – 4/24/2005 7:43:46 AM | show profile | email poster >Feeling disappointed is one thing but publishing this piece about her experience is impulsive and self-destructive to her career. Maybe but she did get a published clip out of something possibly self-destructive. And now she's got press too so maybe this will work in her favor in the future. ''Oh you're that girl who got rejected from Spin!'' Anyway, I can see the temptation to turn rejection into a clip would be pretty high for a newbit. ------ Editor of MBToolBox |
| clairezulkey | Posted – 4/24/2005 7:44:39 AM | show profile ''newbie,'' although I like the word ''newbit,'' whatever it is. ------ Editor of MBToolBox |
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