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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP again (wow this blew up from yesterday).  The intern was not required to write a handwritten letter, just put letters in the outgoing mail.  And they did so with no address.  They didn't get a bad reference, but we simply wouldn't be able to write/say many positive things about him (can't say he works hard, can't say he is a problem-solver, can't say he pays attention to details, etc).  And for most of them, they do the internship to have it on their resume before other jobs and/or graduate school.

And there are plenty of folks supervising he could have asked for help.  We have administrative staff.  [b]The quality of interns is simply going down over time.  [/b]On the upside, the competent ones really stand out!

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Why does your organization have interns? What is the point, for you?

If it's to do actual work ... stop that. That's not what interns are for. Interns can do two things, 1) made-up assignments so they can audition for a future job / get a letter of rec, and 2) real work that is fully supervised and checked by a real employee. It sounds like you are not really auditioning them with this mail-room stuff but you are also not supervising it via the admins who would usually do it.

And yes, my tween can address a letter: she was taught at home and at school. I've udt supervised a lot of interns and am fed up with people who think they're supposed to be free labor for no effort. [/quote]

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