Timbers-Intern?

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This matters because the Timbers are run by rotten people. We may love the team, but it's hard to even like the Timber's management. It is even worse now that they are taking over youth soccer. This is the kind of sh!t we can expect from the Timbers.

The General Manager is GW. Does anyone have anything positive to say about GW? The smartest move that MP had was hiring Caleb rather than allow GW to be the GM and Coach although that was what GW wanted. I am only disappointed that GW did not get the chance because he would have been run out of town in 2 years.

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The General Manager is GW. Does anyone have anything positive to say about GW? The smartest move that MP had was hiring Caleb rather than allow GW to be the GM and Coach although that was what GW wanted. I am only disappointed that GW did not get the chance because he would have been run out of town in 2 years.

Not even GW's mother has anything positive to say about GW.

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Blah blah blah. Non stop. My club is awesome. Everyone else stinks. Over and over. It's like petulant children. Gotta love the anonymous chat rooms. Grown men (supposedly) chatting in an anonymous chat room.

My club is great. Yours stinks. Blah blah blah.

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Parlow has resigned as Thorns coach. Maybe she didn't get paid either...

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I couldn't really care less about all this fuss, but I would say that I don't think anyone here, unless they were there, knows all the facts. Who knows why she was asked to not come back.

I'd recommend caution before jumping to conclusions about situations like this. I have been around similar situations and the documentation later does not always reflect the facts. The prevailing party might have stated details that now get considered facts, but that doesn't mean there aren't more sides to the story.

You are right to say there could be another side to the story, because in this case there is. Here's what the article didn't say...I happen to know that this intern tried to go progressively up the chain of command at the Timbers, not asking for pay, but asking for additional experience during her internship that would meet the criteria of the federal law guiding unpaid internships. It wasn't her first intent to file a wage claim; that decision was reached after she was told multiple times that "staffing" the camps their first priority and she should feel proud to be paying her dues for the Timbers organization. The Intern Coordinator at the Timbers stated that she didn't know anything about federal or state laws on internships, this is "just the way we do it here". Since I was advising the intern about her options, I suggested that the Intern Coordinator and/or the Timbers Camp Manager might want to check with the Timbers legal team, because the situation was so clearly in violation of the laws, but I'm guessing that didn't happen until after the intern was terminated for speaking up. And to the person who suggested she should have quit instead of asking for a different internship experience, that's not who she is...which is why she would have been an amazing person for the Timbers to invest in, instead of exploiting.

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You are right to say there could be another side to the story, because in this case there is. Here's what the article didn't say...I happen to know that this intern tried to go progressively up the chain of command at the Timbers, not asking for pay, but asking for additional experience during her internship that would meet the criteria of the federal law guiding unpaid internships. It wasn't her first intent to file a wage claim; that decision was reached after she was told multiple times that "staffing" the camps their first priority and she should feel proud to be paying her dues for the Timbers organization. The Intern Coordinator at the Timbers stated that she didn't know anything about federal or state laws on internships, this is "just the way we do it here". Since I was advising the intern about her options, I suggested that the Intern Coordinator and/or the Timbers Camp Manager might want to check with the Timbers legal team, because the situation was so clearly in violation of the laws, but I'm guessing that didn't happen until after the intern was terminated for speaking up. And to the person who suggested she should have quit instead of asking for a different internship experience, that's not who she is...which is why she would have been an amazing person for the Timbers to invest in, instead of exploiting.

You wouldn't happen to be the girls lawyer would you? No bias there...

I'd be cautious accepting anything posted in an anonymous chat room as fact. We all craft our "facts" through the lens of our own biases.

I have no idea what happened here but I do know that unless there is concrete proof (witnesses, emails, certified letters..), it's all suspect it my opinion.

Maybe it's all there (rock solid evidence), but if it just she said/she said, it's all just white noise to me. Is posting on chat rooms billable?

I have zero connection to any if this, just being a crabby cynic. I am high skeptical of verbal assertions.