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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It's only a meeting that she is missing. Unfortunately an important one. I'm not calling her boss for her ! This is something she has to do for herself. And to the pp who is all burned up ... You get what you pay for. Pretty entitled of you to think that college and grad students should work for free. [/quote]

Not the "burned up" pp, but I also work with interns that just get a very small stipend, but I have to agree with pp. Internships are not for the benefit of the entity they're working for.  At least 80% of the time, interns are more problem than they're worth from a productivity standpoint.  We can talk about how unfair the system is for kids that can't afford to work for free, but that's another discussion.  When a kid who is lucky enough to get a very compeitive internship shows up an announced that they're going to miss 10 or 20% of an internship because of a family vacation, I don't fuss, and I don't tell them they can't go.  However, I wouldn't be inclined to hire that kid or give them a good reference.  It's clear that they aren't serious and lack maturity, and are, may I say, "entitled."  I would consider myself lucky to know this about your dd in advance, as I have discovered this about people after they've been hiired -- when they disappeared on vacation in the middle of big project and everyone had to scramble to fill in for them.  [/quote]

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