Help! or The Trouble with Interns

personally, i thought the point of interns was to make those of us at the bottom of the ladder feel like we have power over something (anything) at all. i mean, when i was an intern (over six months ago) i did any mundane job thrown at me, and i did it with a smile, dammit! i mean, i guess i still do every mundane job thrown at me, but i'm certainly not smiling now....

our interns are not so obliging. for one, they refuse to do any of the menial tasks that are below the rest of us. i mean, sure, working as part of an assembly line to compile departmental folders is really REALLY boring:

but somebody needs to do it! hell, i'd do it myself if one of the interns would answer my phone while i did them, but they don't want to do that either.

another problem with our rogue interns is that they don't always show up for scheduled meetings. michelle scheduled a time for a couple of our interns to help her with something, and only one of them showed up. her excuse?

oh sorry. i forgot.

we're paying these people!!!!

and then there are the emails. i get emails from our interns (whose names have been deleted for their protection) like these:

and

i mean, come on! they talk to me as though they are in charge of what i should do. and the worst part is that I END UP DOING IT. what's up with that?

lastly, some of our interns don't realize that interning is, like, a job. this means that they have to show up when they are expected, every time. on multiple occasions, this has been a problem.

okay, i'm finished venting:




thanks for sticking by me in these troubling times. maybe as a reward, i won't kill you. (i'm sorry, i'm really jonesin for some processed sugar. it's making me irritable. okay, MORE irritable. )

only 24 more days to go....