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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, that was snarky. I'm sorry.

Look, I don't think it's ever a good idea to mislead other people, and that's a lesson for humans of any age past infancy to learn.

When you sign on for a task -- even a volunteer one, even an unpaid internship -- other people are going to be factoring that into their plans. Maybe less, maybe more, but if they weren't going to factor you in at all, then there was no reason to have you sign on or get scheduled for things.

There was no reason not to be courteous and professional clarify from the beginning vacation time she knew about from the start. There was good reason not to keep waiting to tell them, if it hadn't been clarified from the beginning.

Then there was a post here asking if this was okay, just exactly 7 days ago -- a post asking if a week vacation was okay to spring on an internship position. Apparently this was at the extreme last minute and without warning, because in the week since this thread was started, that "vacation time" has already happened.

So something happened that made the OP want to know whether this would be okay. It wasn't finding out about the vacation, as that happened in January. It wasn't finding out about the existance of some unspecified disability, as that happened in February. Whatever it was, the OP asked right as the question must have been posed to the people supplying the internship, and they made do.

Some people said it was no big deal. We're anonymous, so we'll never know exactly how many. Others said it was a big deal, or at least unprofessional. (We'll also never know those numbers for sure.)

Regardless, I am pretty sure that any company with a slot that 74 are competing for would like to have this kind of information. If it did not outweigh whatever value the teenager brought to the position, then telling them would not have mattered to her getting it -- again, no reason for her not to. If it wouldn't outweight it, then for a competitive position, they should have been told -- so no good reason not to.

She should have disclosed. The OP shouldn't have waited to the last minute to ask. The company probably did the best it could. I'm sure the teenager did, too.

I hope it doesn't play out this way in the future. I don't thinkit was a win-win from any perspective.[/quote]

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