Challenging interns…any stories?

[Anonymous]

I was assigned to mentor an intern this summer and she is something else. Technically sound, but major attitude problem: complained about the lack of ‘intellectually stimulating work’, brags constantly about all the networking she’s done and ‘how much everyone has loved meeting her’, and says she ‘doesn’t see any point’ in some of the tasks she’s assigned. I was shocked she even wants an offer, but she won’t be getting one.

Anyone have any funny stories?

[Anonymous]

Get a life and grow up OP.

[Anonymous]

This is why they are interns and not full time hires.

[Anonymous]

I have an intern that told me this was not her first choice internship. And then proceeded to ask for a recommendation for a future internship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was assigned to mentor an intern this summer and she is something else. Technically sound, but major attitude problem: complained about the lack of ‘intellectually stimulating work’, brags constantly about all the networking she’s done and ‘how much everyone has loved meeting her’, and says she ‘doesn’t see any point’ in some of the tasks she’s assigned. I was shocked she even wants an offer, but she won’t be getting one.

Anyone have any funny stories?

If this is your reasoning for not giving return offers, then your company is not going to have any new young talent.

[Anonymous]

Fire her if you can. The worst I had was entitled and incompetent and had a father who was one of our biggest clients. I loaded her down with make work and wrote a glowing reference hoping she'd get a job somewhere else

[Anonymous]

Mine is great. Hard worker, asks great questions. He asked be if I minded if he took the leftover sandwiches home after a meeting. I said sure and he was very happy. The next day he brought in a lovely thank you note from his mother thanking me for the sandwiches and for the internship. Some people are still raising great kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine is great. Hard worker, asks great questions. He asked be if I minded if he took the leftover sandwiches home after a meeting. I said sure and he was very happy. The next day he brought in a lovely thank you note from his mother thanking me for the sandwiches and for the internship. Some people are still raising great kids.

Yep, so dependent on how the kid was raised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was assigned to mentor an intern this summer and she is something else. Technically sound, but major attitude problem: complained about the lack of ‘intellectually stimulating work’, brags constantly about all the networking she’s done and ‘how much everyone has loved meeting her’, and says she ‘doesn’t see any point’ in some of the tasks she’s assigned. I was shocked she even wants an offer, but she won’t be getting one.

Anyone have any funny stories?

If this is your reasoning for not giving return offers, then your company is not going to have any new young talent.

Really? Are you saying all ‘new young talent’ is rude and socially clueless?

I can’t imagine complaining about the tasks I was assigned at a paid internship…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a life and grow up OP.

No need to open the thread, dear.

[Anonymous]

We had one a few years ago who was given a really fun assignment and then he just ... never did it. When the assignor followed up the intern was like "Oh ... yeah ... I was just ... too busy so I never did it." He didn't get an offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine is great. Hard worker, asks great questions. He asked be if I minded if he took the leftover sandwiches home after a meeting. I said sure and he was very happy. The next day he brought in a lovely thank you note from his mother thanking me for the sandwiches and for the internship. Some people are still raising great kids.

That is so wonderful! I hope he gets a full time offer (and if not, send him my way!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine is great. Hard worker, asks great questions. He asked be if I minded if he took the leftover sandwiches home after a meeting. I said sure and he was very happy. The next day he brought in a lovely thank you note from his mother thanking me for the sandwiches and for the internship. Some people are still raising great kids.

That is so wonderful! I hope he gets a full time offer (and if not, send him my way!)

Even better was after I read the note, he said his mom insisted that she write it in English herself even though her English isn’t very good. I asked him how his Spanish was and he said it was not great because his mother insists that they speak English to help her learn.