"An intern “failing” at ANY task is not a failure of the intern, it’s a failure of the leadership of the organization."

It's not every day you get to enact revenge as an intern . Most interns spend their days getting coffee for the team, printing out papers, organizing the office, or looking over the shoulder of different employees to learn more about how they do their jobs. But for u/Y0bogoya, this was an opportunity to learn many different things, not all of which were being taught by their company. This person's petty revenge story revolves around trying to please their crush. The crush overheard another woma…

Like many interns, this guy is convinced he has a lot of offer the workforce, but he just hasn't quite figured out how to navigate an office. Being an intern is one of the strangest experiences in the working world. You're often a student, still learning every day, and accustomed to the teacher-student dynamics. Then, you're thrust into the work world, and it's every person for themselves. The expectations for every intern are different, and they won't know what they'll have to do until they sh…

Unpaid internships should not be a thing. No matter how small the job that they are doing, if it is a job, they should be getting paid for it. The whole concept of unpaid internships only allows employers to take advantage of young people who desperately need to gain experience in order to get a real job, and that's just wrong. Employers can afford to pay them even a minimum hourly rate, instead of bossing them around for nothing whatsoever. This is why I was extremely proud of the intern in th…

This intern wasn't afraid to burn bridges after his boss fired him out of nowhere! Internships can be truly grueling. Regardless of what industry you're in, as an intern, you can expect to be doing the jobs no one else wants to do, popping out to get coffee for the employees, and even working extra hours. You're supposed to gain career experience , and maybe even gain a job as a result. But in actuality, companies almost never end up hiring interns, and they often don't bother to pay them for t…

We all know someone who is practical to the extent that they don't believe in miracles of any kind. This Reddit thread is proof (well, proof-ish, considering it's the internet so obviously we've gotta take everything with a grain of salt) that they exist — in the form of a fail, no less. Sometimes you just luck out, and it's kind of unexplainable. Call it a flux, coincidence, or fate — either way, the facts that stare you in the face are undeniable. The great thing about all this is that this s…