Timeline for How to deal with an intern who puts no effort in her work?
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 9:52 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Pepone: If the objective of the internship is to learn how things are done in a company while working as a regular team member, then providing any special training or giving the interns tasks any different from those of the other employees undermines the goal of the internship. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @pepone, the company has cost involved: A chair, a desk, office space, the time of someone like the poster who looks after them. A good company will do that to be a good citizen, and quite selfishly to find future employees (I have colleagues who used their internship as a massive learning opportunity and were promptly hired when they were ready and looking for a job). If the intern wants to waste their time, the company isn't going to be willing to waste their effort. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | HLGEM | @pepone, they are there to learn about how to mnavigate the work woprld, you have to treat them as employees for that purpose. Yes you are not supposed to be giving them the projects you would give normal employees, but they are still expected to work on their assignments and be pulled up short when they don't perform on what you gave them. It isn't a free ride. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 14:40 | comment | added | Pepone | @HLGEM "interns" are not employees in the strict sense some companies in the USA and UK have been getting into trouble by abusing the intern system to get round minimum wage laws | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 14:13 | comment | added | HLGEM | @pepone, you are ded wrong in that. Any intern who expects to be given special handling becasue she is an intern is going to get fired. We have no need to keep someone who is wasting our time buy noit doing what he or she was asked to do. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 13:08 | comment | added | Pepone | an intern isn't "doing a job" its workplace training not free low cost resource. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 12:26 | history | answered | mhr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |