Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a professional for over 20 years and I have never once had to mail a letter for work.

Same, but I have seen mail. I've received it. I've seen movies where people look at addresses on envelopes.
It's not plausible the kid didn't know, in the abstract, that envelopes need addresses. He or she just wasn't engaging the brain on that task.

What is the purpose of the internship?
If it's free labor, you get what you pay for. If it's to teach young people that you might hire in the future, congrats you are teaching them.

Staff people always resent interns because it's a lot of work to occupy soneone and provide feedback when you can't really use their work. But the organization is presumably getting sonething out of it so figure out what that is.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a professional for over 20 years and I have never once had to mail a letter for work.

Same.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Lots of parents who don’t get it. Maybe that’s the issue?

I work with your teenagers, and I can say with full confidence that professionalism is an issue. Young people think everyone should accommodate them all the time. No.

These interns are there to work. It sounds like they’re actually creating more work for everyone else. You can’t do that in a workplace.

And yet the older generation doesn't seem to be any better, if it's represented by you and OP You spend your time judging instead of working with others who don't have the same culture. I bet you do the same with foreigners and anyone who doesn't think exactly like you do. Nice work, PP. Way to be productive.

Anonymous wrote:This is why people want to hire athletes you would not see this with athletes.

Athletes are dumber than most people. All brawn, no brain. (See how I can make a complete ridiculous statement, just like you?)

Wow. Lots of parents who don’t get it. Maybe that’s the issue?

I work with your teenagers, and I can say with full confidence that professionalism is an issue. Young people think everyone should accommodate them all the time. No.

These interns are there to work. It sounds like they’re actually creating more work for everyone else. You can’t do that in a workplace.

Anonymous wrote:This is why people want to hire athletes you would not see this with athletes.

Lol. Athletes are late and don't know how to send letters regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who just finished an interviewing process I was astonished at how upper management was all about do as I say, not as I do. Complete weeks where no one got back to me because they were out on vacation. Multiple vacations every other week. You could never work from home but I'd get an email saying they didnt talk to someone because they were working from home the past 3 days. They wanted new hires to know everything but when asked admitted they didnt know anything about what they wanted the new hires to know. They were uncurious about learning and the ones coming in late, taking vacations, and working from home.

If work from home and vacations are part of their package, what’s the problem?

The problem is that they expect other people to be ok with very restrictive packages. You can't say you have a no work from home policy and then work from home yourself all the time. The people I interviewed with were constantly coming in late to the office, working from home, or taking vacations. There is nothing wrong with their package unless they expect others in the office to live very different lives. Why say you have a no work from home policy while you are working at home and on zoom with a potential employee? What's the point of the policy. I'm positive OP is projecting her own issues onto these interns. Who writes a negative review for an intern. Just don't write one. No one needs their first employment to be so negative.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who just finished an interviewing process I was astonished at how upper management was all about do as I say, not as I do. Complete weeks where no one got back to me because they were out on vacation. Multiple vacations every other week. You could never work from home but I'd get an email saying they didnt talk to someone because they were working from home the past 3 days. They wanted new hires to know everything but when asked admitted they didnt know anything about what they wanted the new hires to know. They were uncurious about learning and the ones coming in late, taking vacations, and working from home.

If work from home and vacations are part of their package, what’s the problem?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a professional for over 20 years and I have never once had to mail a letter for work.

So? The point interns do have to mail letters, clearly don’t know how, and don’t bother to figure it out. I’m sure OP wouldn’t be so harsh if the intern came up and asked if they did it correctly, googled it but just wanted to verify it was correct, or flat out ask how to do it. I have have zero problem answers the questions of the young or new employees/interns. I will happily offer any guidance I have on the most trivial things. However, they do need to show some initiative to get their tasks completed and do to them correctly.

I’m sure the interns can clock that OP is too lazy and incompetent to teach them their job functions. She expects their mommies to teach HER employees how to function in HER offie.

OP is an entitled brat, sorry!

Well, that’s a bizarre take away. I think most people would expect their Harvard intern to know how to mail a letter. But should they not- then they need to ASK

This is why people want to hire athletes you would not see this with athletes.

As someone who just finished an interviewing process I was astonished at how upper management was all about do as I say, not as I do. Complete weeks where no one got back to me because they were out on vacation. Multiple vacations every other week. You could never work from home but I'd get an email saying they didnt talk to someone because they were working from home the past 3 days. They wanted new hires to know everything but when asked admitted they didnt know anything about what they wanted the new hires to know. They were uncurious about learning and the ones coming in late, taking vacations, and working from home.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a professional for over 20 years and I have never once had to mail a letter for work.

So? The point interns do have to mail letters, clearly don’t know how, and don’t bother to figure it out. I’m sure OP wouldn’t be so harsh if the intern came up and asked if they did it correctly, googled it but just wanted to verify it was correct, or flat out ask how to do it. I have have zero problem answers the questions of the young or new employees/interns. I will happily offer any guidance I have on the most trivial things. However, they do need to show some initiative to get their tasks completed and do to them correctly.

I’m sure the interns can clock that OP is too lazy and incompetent to teach them their job functions. She expects their mommies to teach HER employees how to function in HER offie.

OP is an entitled brat, sorry!

If students aren’t shoring up on time and working their required hours, that’s a parental failure. It shouldn’t be a company’s job to teach these basic skills.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP’s larger point about teaching our kids basic skills, but very much disagree on the bad reference for not knowing the skills already. We all make mistakes and have weird gaps in our knowledge. The reference could relate to how the intern handled it-did they ask for help? Once it was explained, did they go on to handle mail correctly, etc.

I’d rather a teachable intern who wants to learn than one who thinks they already know everything.

Exactly. And this thread just goes to show that people who need references sometimes depend on complete morons like OP, who will judge based on the wrong criteria. Sad.