I understand why our internship program runs through the summer, but good lord is it during one of the most busiest parts of the year.
@dashazygmont269
2 ай бұрын
Or half of the department js on vacation xd
@Domieboy
2 ай бұрын
That’s good for learning tho…
@Blue-Lights
2 ай бұрын
Same with my company but apparently that’s when you get the most funding for students or interns
@josephineosei1151
2 ай бұрын
@@dashazygmont269that's currently my case lol the office is almost empty
@Johnnnnnnnyyyyyy
2 ай бұрын
Why not prepare for it since you can predict it?
@HDKEN4729
3 ай бұрын
You’ve either got absolutely nothing to do or you’re inundated, there’s no in between
@saecsee
2 ай бұрын
Sadly, yeah. My last summer practice was 6h on paper but I had to work at home too, it took me the whole day. I just wanted it to end.
@louisgipp5208
2 ай бұрын
@@saecsee what do you do?
@saecsee
2 ай бұрын
@@louisgipp5208 computer science and computer engineering, practice was on web development, backend and frontend
@Luckyj714
2 ай бұрын
That’s because there’s either an overflow and they actually need help, or there’s not enough work and they want to keep the employees (that they pay) busy.
@liberide2192
2 ай бұрын
AMEN
@mangana215
2 ай бұрын
I read novels online, since it was text with no images, it almost looked work 😂
@Me-eb3wv
2 ай бұрын
What job do you have?
@ashunotaku
2 ай бұрын
lol that is so smart!
@AriPotty67
2 ай бұрын
I started reading this Greek mythology book online you can find like over 100 pages
@ann_cam
2 ай бұрын
@@AriPotty67what book?
@bunnywavyxx9524
2 ай бұрын
I did this during primary school lol. Was reading a lot of things I shouldn’t have… but yes you can find PDFs of anything and just scroll about.
@Kiy-uh1fi
3 ай бұрын
This reminds me of my internship days with two of my college friends. Our mentor assigned us a raffle web project, but I was the only one who worked on it. Every two weeks, I was the one who presented the progress in the meeting room. I lost so much sleep completing that project in those three months 😢
@bebaoboy
2 ай бұрын
I'm sorry to hear that, but your work will be acknowledged one day❤ keep up your good work and stay healthy
@waner17
2 ай бұрын
friends? yikes
@connor-5123
2 ай бұрын
be careful who your friends are! in general not just group projects
@js.6260
2 ай бұрын
If you're still friends I hope they acknowledged how they were wrong for that 😭 that's crazy
@BlakeGeometrio
2 ай бұрын
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
@lisilein2
2 ай бұрын
That's what I did in one of my first internships. I basically read an entire novel. But later I realized, that pretending to be busy is not only useless to the company but even more so for myself. I wanted to gain valuable experience after all because it might help me get more lucrative jobs. So instead, I started making rounds on a regular basis through all the offices, where I just said "hi" and "how are you", "busy day?" or "what are you working on today" to everybody. Basically I asked questions about social things and did what I called "mini job shadowing". Not only did I get a better sense for the company and the people I also gained more insight into different departments than most employees working there. Because when you are an unwritten page, you can move between groups much more easily than employees who might be on "different teams". Which makes you a valuable asset. I learned more during that time than I had during all my previous internships and had a permanent job within the year.
@1Neck913
2 ай бұрын
Holy hell underrated comment
@baileyarnold2020
2 ай бұрын
@@1Neck913 took the words right out of my mouth. That's actually some top tier guidance & advice. It's easy to sit there and look busy, but as you said it doesn't help YOU in the long run.
@bengarcia5330
Ай бұрын
So you did the office talk and think it was productive for the company lol you people are the worst
@RawDoggin_78
Ай бұрын
@@bengarcia5330😂
@coolkaw4497
Ай бұрын
@@bengarcia5330no? He analyzed the workplace environment, saw how people act/respond, and also inquired about the daily tasks that everyone was performing. This is good for him since he learns many things about the people he will be working around and similar tasks he will be performing, as well as others, because sometimes a bit of chit chat can help someone detox from a long session of work. I see this as genuine advice, and as someone looking for an internship, I’ll be sure to act similarly on my next job shadowing.
@Jellybunie
2 ай бұрын
I work at a law office and the only reason why I accepted the underpaid, low hours position is bc they offered to train me. They did train me eventually…. After 6-8 months 😭. But honestly it was just them getting to know and trust me during that time. Now I do documentation, interpretations. and calls. If this was a summer exclusive job, i doubt you’d learn anything. You can always ask if they need more help or just step in when they’re having trouble. One of our only Vietnamese coworkers wasn’t there so I stepped in to do the translation. That’s one of the faster ways you can become seemingly reliable
@superchet4026
2 ай бұрын
Good advice I appreciate it
@HoomieArtz
2 ай бұрын
Awesome that they let you step up for translation
@velvety2006
2 ай бұрын
I was trained for two weeks or so in dementia elder care, my training was reading a pamphlet apparently i had been presented as a dietary assistant a job I did not have the dimplona's for nor for the elder care. i basically was there so the elder had a babysitter while the nurses took long breaks. The first thing i did at home was ask my lawyer's older brother if they could shove it into my shoes if something happened with one of the elders. he assured me that they could not put anything on me since I was not trained in elder care.
@TheNamesFarquaad
2 ай бұрын
What practice is the firm? Also how did you get the job?
@jclyntoledo
Ай бұрын
@@HoomieArtzI'm not sure they let them do that as an opportunity they were probably too lazy to replace the last person. That wasn't even related to heir intern 😂😭
@thekameru6058
2 ай бұрын
Good effin lord, this takes me back. Im someone who gets anxious without something to do. It was torture. I ended up reading books on industrial meat production to pass time.
@Savedbygrace44
2 ай бұрын
This is so funny to me😭😭 industrial meat production????LOL
@laurenmiller8084
2 ай бұрын
this was me when I volunteered at a hospital but they didn’t ever let me do anything so I just sat at the nurse’s station for 2 hours - no computer, no phone 😭 stared at the list of phone numbers on the wall
@PhazeParsnip
2 ай бұрын
This exact thing ^^ i wrote like 6 chapters on my fanfiction during training cuz everyone was bussy elsewhere lol
@VietcongProphet
2 ай бұрын
Bussy? 🤨🤨🤨
@PhazeParsnip
2 ай бұрын
@@VietcongProphet lmao I cant spell apparently
@La-PetitMort
2 ай бұрын
They were doing what 😮
@1Neck913
2 ай бұрын
bussy 😳😳😳
@dahliaherrod4301
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for that. I need my fanfiction on a consistent schedule
@louisa3930
2 ай бұрын
I did something in Germany called "Duales Studium". Basically, I went to university, and when others were on break, I worked for the company, and my work was graded as well. Once COVID began, and we transitioned to remote working, they didn't know what to do with me. So, they gave me some videos to watch for two weeks. I finished them on the first day.
@louisa3930
2 ай бұрын
@Betty.Pfeffer Wir haben in den Semesterferien (Praxisphasen) immer ein Projekt bekommen vom Unternehmen (oder das sollte man zumindest), was man während der Arbeitszeit bearbeitet. Dann kurz vor Ende der Praxisphase schreibt man einen Praxisphasenbericht (Wissenschaftliche Arbeit im Umfang von 10-20 Seiten, Ausnahme: das 6. Semester ist komplett im Unternehmen, da muss man 30-40 Seiten schreiben). Der wird vom Unternehmensbetreuer und Prof benotet, im Anschluss gibts dann noch ein Kolloquium :)
@froggygal_
2 ай бұрын
Did you get paid for it?
@louisa3930
2 ай бұрын
@@froggygal_ yess
@louisa3930
2 ай бұрын
@@froggygal_ yesss
@felixk1843
2 ай бұрын
@@froggygal_yes, u get paid relatively well for it.
@anyasadventures1
2 ай бұрын
I had the same experience with my internship. It felt humiliating having to sit hours there without it teaching me anything. Since then I changed my perspective on working. I hate it. I had different jobs since then (5y ago) as I still need to make a living (yet still not enough to leave my parents home) but I hate it with all my heart.
@SOH-bl4mr
2 ай бұрын
What do you do now?
@SOH-bl4mr
2 ай бұрын
What did you do now and how did you get over this? Yt keeps deleting which is very weird
@1Neck913
2 ай бұрын
NEED UPDATE!!!!
@anyasadventures1
2 ай бұрын
@@SOH-bl4mr I do an office job which is completely different to my degree. But I found myself in a very different hobby: solo long distance cycling. Last summer I cycled ~11500km from one side to the other side of my home country
@anyasadventures1
2 ай бұрын
@@1Neck913 answered to the other comment in the thread. But I still don’t know what to do about a career
@LitioFPV
3 ай бұрын
When I was an intern at a geotech firm, no one told me that I was allowed to put my time on projects I worked on. So everything I did was put under training. The PE I worked under was shocked at how much of the budget we had left over at the end of a project 😅😂
@griffinfurlong
3 ай бұрын
@@LitioFPV that’s gold 🤣
@Perceous_Jackson-Wonka
2 ай бұрын
This is a pretty good story 😂👌
@ItzSoaRqt
Ай бұрын
@@fiveoneforfourI'm gonna take the guess that depending what company you're in having some of the budget left is actually a good thing
@avaayla4263
3 ай бұрын
“Stamp some calendars for the companies/ clients” 😂
@lekoraxx5406
2 ай бұрын
I did an intern as an accountant and I just made some beats on my laptop out of boredom 💀
@klover9902
2 ай бұрын
Our IT dept monitors our pc😭
@saviocri
2 ай бұрын
you did what now
@xXtuscanator22Xx
2 ай бұрын
@@klover9902Oh that’sss fucked. I do know fair amount of remote jobs do that
@BBB-to4cc
2 ай бұрын
Damn my internship was INTENSE I was so busy. I’m so thankful for that
@Jim-tv2tk
2 ай бұрын
Oh the days of pretending to work. These days I just go out back and play ball with my dog when I get too bored.
@katelynnpeterson7877
2 ай бұрын
this was like when i was in school and i would finish writing my essays already so i’d just pull out my own personal writing project lol
@moonflower5553
2 ай бұрын
My first internship was in such a lax environment that when i had nothing to do i just gossiped. With my boss.
@avourrito1819
2 ай бұрын
I got the most mundane task of creating 30 generic style promotional posters for my boss's boyfriend's company. It wasn't even used. At the end of my internship, they even broke up. The work environment was low-key toxic
@eleo_b
2 ай бұрын
I have sometimes given interns assignments with work that I wasn’t hijg to use, just to have them work on something. Not private stuff of course, and I never told them we didn’t use it.
@ikn0wuryt227
3 ай бұрын
This is the supervisors in my workplace while, staff are literally busy.
@laki2212
2 ай бұрын
I am interning in a firm rn. Whats funny is that I realised in any big firm they expect interns to have experience as well 😂. In my first week instead of teaching they directly gave me task without actually making me understand what formats they use and I messed up and now they just don't bother with me 😌 and I have to do this 😂
@normandy2501
2 ай бұрын
My job in aircraft painting is like that if you end up on the shift with all the older people who've been there for a minute. Not all of them are like that across the other shifts, but the day shift people will often just make you look stupid rather than training you on the floor like their position description in the company's own policy says they're supposed to be able to do. A lot of us lower levels just ended up learning amongst each other to the point that we were able to do everything the older guys were, but our pay differences remained a point of contention for a while. One guy I worked with is always positive about things and busted his ass when it was go time, but he was at the lowest level for at least over a year and a half before they promoted him. By then, he should have honestly skipped the middle tier and went to the highest because he legit deserved it. But then the older guys would just take a break from talking mess about each other on the same shift to talking about anybody working there born after gen x.
@neonMETEOR
2 ай бұрын
I just had severe flashbacks
@KarenRomero-zz2ri
2 ай бұрын
Me rn sitting in an empty office one month into the job bc they’re too busy at the other office to give me more work/train me
@Godsgal29
2 ай бұрын
I just started working at a law office. I got 2 days of training and then I was left to my own devices. I have been googling things like crazy just to understand what emails mean, but I’m about to start week three and have come a long way. I’m hoping to finish my bachelors up and go to law school.
@joeyboboie
Ай бұрын
POV you’re the counselors in my highschool
@dariosilvestri473
2 ай бұрын
I miss those times. Now I'm actually busy
@rukybojor6991
2 ай бұрын
I desire and receive this instead of the former
@alikhanhotak511
2 ай бұрын
Today was my first day as an intern, an this was literally me 😂
@tredaviousbowser7931
Ай бұрын
Get used to it. Either they have a well structured program that will keep you busy, or a lowkey position where you’ll sit around doing nothing most of the time
@Fallasyt
Ай бұрын
if this continues for a few days, you're going to have to ask for work show that you're not here for nothing
@reeveherbert6540
2 ай бұрын
Wtf… why is this so accurate
@Anberel
3 ай бұрын
No! This is a golden opportunity to make the role whatever you want it to be. Start doing the kind of work that you want to do and by the time a supervisor remembers that you exist, you can tell them your plate is already full with all the work you took on your own initiative. It both makes you look like a rockstar and lets you set the tone for the type of work you expect to be doing. Otherwise, they will give you grunt work that teaches you nothing and gives no opportunity for advancement.
@RedCandle23
2 ай бұрын
It will show them what a good boy you are LMAO grow up
@Anberel
2 ай бұрын
@@RedCandle23 it’s not about being a dog, it’s about making your work what you want to be. You can wait for them to tell you what to do or you can shape your own career. I know which one I think is lame. I’ve managed multi million dollar projects for Fortune 100 companies. I didn’t get there by playing minesweeper until someone told me what to do.
@AHossain-j2q
2 ай бұрын
I HATED days like these. I ended up drafting up mock subpoenas for clients that I already did assignments on and showing it to my supervisor to make sure I was drafting the documents correctly. Sometimes I’d just watch body cam footage and take notes to add onto what may be missing
@ShameCobra
Ай бұрын
At least you’re trying to LOOK busy - that goes a long way bc most people would slack off. Shows integrity.
@battenro
Ай бұрын
I interned for Lockheed a couple of summers and it was a blast. They fed us, gave us cool little “projects” to do and let us be a little think tank.
@Mani-oh6dl
2 ай бұрын
I always wanted to do work because 1. I wanted to learn and 2. Sitting around is just boring. I asked literally everyone for more work but all I ever got was "idk ask someone else", "we have nothing for you", "I'm busy" etc.. So I just did a bunch of does google courses or some shit 😂
@leviackerman1032
Ай бұрын
That sooooo true. Whenever I asked, they'll say "Did your supervisor teach you anything yet? Wait for her to teach you." But then, my supervisor was busy, she told me to ask the others. But then, they still didn't want to teach me. I was fed up with the situation.
@Thats_MarieHoney
2 ай бұрын
This is me at my job right now I was thrown in and I’m doing to basic. If I mess up. I’m new lol
@sjanejms9394
2 ай бұрын
I intern at an architectural bureau and they actually give me important work and its even worse cus im always scared about what mistakes ive made
@sarahm9723
Ай бұрын
LOL! The whole first week is like that.
@emm._.
Ай бұрын
I felt so awkward and almost felt bad pulling out my phone 😭
@HonestlyHolistic
2 ай бұрын
That is so funny actually, because it’s accurate
@Olivia-bx2mx
2 ай бұрын
REPETITION IS THE KEY TO LEARNING 🎉❤
@a.j.miller872
2 ай бұрын
Im glad that this is a universal experience 😂
@JF-bc2lw
3 ай бұрын
This guys going places.
@Wendy-je6cz
Ай бұрын
They're wasting your time because they believe it has no value
@ceceliaanneruehmann5192
Ай бұрын
I hated that I not only ran into that problem. But I also had to write a detailed page for my professor Everytime I went in for my internship
@danbutonyoutube
2 ай бұрын
Me for 3 months at my job before I got sick of it and just started booking in my own work 😂😂
@alysecat812
2 ай бұрын
I legitimately wrote a chapter of fanfiction at work once. Since it was on a Google doc it looked like work.
@LLCoolJ_25
2 ай бұрын
Lmao, on days that I’m not busy, sometimes I write my workout schedule in OneNote when I’m in the office.😂
@angelamitchel3984
2 ай бұрын
I did mine during my college semester, so I’d use my spare time to get my work done. Basically I woke up super early, arrived at my internship and immediately started doing the homework I normally would procrastinate
@Gangster0326
Ай бұрын
Honestly! Except my boss expects me to find a new project
@ayokay6404
2 ай бұрын
Yep, that sounds like they're training you for the real job 😂😂
@llcvtmimmlde7168
2 ай бұрын
Happened to me before, on my internship there was days in a row where no one would give me any tasks so I would just sit before my laptop, pretend to be working on stuff and act like I'm busy to not get called out. I even had ebooks on my screen that looked like paperwork to anyone passing by, whilst I was really browsing fanfiction.
@cajunguy6502
2 ай бұрын
It's so counterintuitive, but having nothing do to at work is surprisingly stressful. Either you have nothing to do and feel like they're going to can you soon, or you have something to do and you've completely forgot it and now they're definitely going to can you. Having no work is a pretty big red flag that your about to have even less work (with some notable exceptions, of course).
@sbombfitness
2 ай бұрын
This was me during my internship at EY. Got paid $46/hr to do nothing all day
@angelblood13
2 ай бұрын
Why is this actually me right now. Except I have work but the other intern is on vacation so I can’t complete the work without him
@glowstickqueen7139
Ай бұрын
I swear people could write a whole fanfiction at an office and nobody would notice.
@herbertmoon998
3 ай бұрын
Gotta find a way to secretly binge Sunny
@rj5801
2 ай бұрын
My right now learning the BA role before OEP lol. Just going to keep taking a few calls at a time and doing certifications until sometime says something. 😂😅🤫
@gooddogtrainingservices5351
2 ай бұрын
Nothing like being afraid of being fired from an unpaid job where you’re basically volunteering your time to hopes that you might learn something or get a job…
@reigndrops4090
2 ай бұрын
Makes me feel really guilty though when I get that pay cheque since I don’t feel like I really deserved it. Especially if it was a particularly uneventful week
@EkkyPlaysGames
2 ай бұрын
This, worst part is acting busy is a billion times worse than being busy, especially when you have a higher up breathing down your back the whole time.
@nyoin2028
Ай бұрын
Did this for 3 years at the big 3. Was let go off once they realized they needed to train me. The training manager was fired the same week i got into the job, some FBI incident with a chinise worker not wanting to go back to china while flying over alaska and almost bringing the plane down. It took them 3 years to notice.
@rllysilli
Ай бұрын
yeah this definitely is not a real story😭 interns are never signed on for 3 years, so if you were going unpaid for 2.5 you're just brain dead. but can already tell you aren't too bright from this comment lololl
@nyoin2028
Ай бұрын
@rllysilli bank statements say otherwise. Never said I was an intern. "YoU aReN't ToO bRiGhT" The Detroit auto industry is bloated with dead weight. Why do you think moneys constantly a problem for the whole sector. 70s being a prime example,
@onlyallegra
2 ай бұрын
I am a receptionist and did something similar when I started. I could literally just stare at a screen for 15 minutes and look like I am working.
@BalticLab
2 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Managers pretty much do the exact same thing.
@auroraboracat26
2 ай бұрын
This was me when the IT team took a whole week to set me up on their system. But I still had to turn up doing nothing anyways 😂
@andre5468
Ай бұрын
That was me working for a specialised cable manufacturer in sales. Then they proceeded to let me go despite not working with me at all
@Perceous_Jackson-Wonka
2 ай бұрын
I did this in school cause I finished the work, but I didn't want to do extra work or when the class didn't have anything to do but had to look productive.
@robertcurry389
2 ай бұрын
I never interned, but at my first year round part time job I spent a lot of time behind a desk, I found many ways to find work to do. And I found many ways to make up work to do.
@delordtofu
2 ай бұрын
I’m not an intern but I recently started a new job and this is what my training consists of. A whole lot of “looking” busy. 😭
@tredaviousbowser7931
Ай бұрын
Welcome to the real world🤣 where we fake it until we make it
@almightyblackdollar3669
Ай бұрын
What's crazy is that they know they didn't assign you anything 😅 😂
@okidokes
Ай бұрын
Bro id low key be a master at that
@Fallasyt
Ай бұрын
hell ye the internship grind
@DeathMonkeys
2 ай бұрын
“Oh you actually read those? Lol”
@booniebabie1210
Ай бұрын
Gotta take the initiative.
@MadMusic26
2 ай бұрын
Then I pull up my Kindle in the incognito tab and catch up on my reading.
@prasannathanikasalam8990
Ай бұрын
Thats exactly what I did in my last work.
@katofmine
Ай бұрын
This was my first two years in the Air Force. Then I gave up and started using chat GPT to DM a game of DnD until someone gave me something to do.
@chris_louis
Ай бұрын
I started watching a movie and they gave me something to do within the next 5 minutes
@JohnDoe-uq2qd
Ай бұрын
Been there done that. Best thing you can do is be honest with your boss and let them know that youre just sitting around with nothing to do and you would like to be given some tasks. If they dont give you anything, then you dont have to feel bad about surfing the web all day. If your boss sees you watching youtube videos, just remind them of the conversations you already had asking for work.
@donttouchmebitc
Ай бұрын
Me sleeping under my desk
@Nereus00
2 ай бұрын
hahaha i still do it now that i am not an intern anymore, just look busy and nobody will bother you
@TheRealAbdallahEssam
2 ай бұрын
I did not even pretended and I was on KZitem all day
@josephineosei1151
2 ай бұрын
Same lol
@nurive
2 ай бұрын
Literally me this summer 😂
@eleo_b
2 ай бұрын
Oh pfff, interns… it’s so much work and in cannot deal with that in summer time.
@Vanessa_s_Book
Ай бұрын
You have to go around and ask casually what they are doing😅
@muslimtochrist4727
Ай бұрын
It just proves that anyone can work. They just act like they are irreplaceable 😂
@andrebrown10101
Ай бұрын
To be fair, this happens at my job and I’m a full time employee. Still don’t know what the hell half my job is.
@3StarLogo
2 ай бұрын
This was me for 2 years in retail jewelry. I'm still not trained after 3 years just asking and absorbing 😂😂😂
@joshuawilson8804
2 ай бұрын
I swear I've been doing this for 3 years at my company.
@artfulcord
2 ай бұрын
half of the military at any given moment;
@Zero-eq7mp
Ай бұрын
“Intern” could never work for free🤣
@jimbojimbo6873
2 ай бұрын
39 year old interns
@plyr_uno
Ай бұрын
legit what i’m doing rn💀
@newsogn5148
2 ай бұрын
Such is life I guess, but if you offer to shadow anyone who is willing you could just watch what they do and if anything repetitive comes that you can do in parallel volunteer as fast as you can, that’s how you get your spot
@LifeExotics
2 ай бұрын
Some people I know had an entire military career in this fashion.
@adequatequality
Ай бұрын
As an intern, I used to get frustrated with this. But now as a full-time employee with deliverable deadlines up the wazoo, the interns are my last priority 😂
@Jeff-im1ui
2 ай бұрын
😂. We have 2 temps starting on monday for the busy season, and my boss is literally always busy in meetings and what not, and I complete my job in less than 8 hrs in the day most days. So I have Nooo idea why they start 8/12 when busy season starts oct 15. They gonna be literally doing this. Reading emails they don’t understand lol.
@R3TR0J4N
2 ай бұрын
That's me but most of my time was in the cafeteria
@liberator7273
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like working at the IRS
@letsdothis4241
Ай бұрын
Every time you start a new job, find the private toilet. There's always one somewhere. That's your new break/nap room.
@stupidvickfan3744
2 ай бұрын
Yep that's how middle wage is, a class of people who do nothing all day and get paid more.
@xxBlackxWindowxx
2 ай бұрын
Here's a worse one, I'm an intern at college and I'm working as President of an org on campus with no training because the last Pres (who altho is a good friend) barely kept the place running, I feel okay saying that because they admitted it several times themselves, but now I have no clue what I am doing.
@tacobella99
2 ай бұрын
I have 40 cases as a social work intern 😭 I’m def not able to do this
@Y2KNW
Ай бұрын
I've found that as long as you're doing something with a concerned look on your face, people will leave you alone. If you're carrying a clipboard and look concerned, they will move away from you as to avoid getting pulled into whatever's got you in a bad mood.
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