Today, my boss expects me to conduct a meeting with a client, give him all the info he needs, and manage his campaign. This is because he fired the "expensive" marketing director and wants me, the intern, to continue his work. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my superior, who went to meet with client yesterday, told me I needed to prepare a detailed list of changes to enhance the design of a marketing video, and refused to tell me the client's feedback they received, then told me I should figure it out myself. It's the weekend, and they want it by Monday morning. FML
Today, my boss sent me to a meeting with a client I've never met to do some damage control and renegotiate his contract. For two hours, he alternated between threatening to sue us, and making vulgar comments about raping me in his office. FML
Today, my boss selected me to be the company representative at an important meeting in Portland with one of our biggest clients. I was thrilled, until I realized he hadn't said anything about my plane ticket or hotel reservation. He later told me that I'll need to acquire those things myself. FML
Today, my boss gave me a new assignment at work: go online and look for my own replacement, then interview him. FML
Today, I got fired from my position as a financial investor for giving a client the exact investment he asked for, even though the investment was out of my mandate, and I had gone to my direct manager to authorize the investment. My manager was promoted. FML
Today, the CEO of my company wanted to meet with me. I was excited until I found out she just wanted to bitch me out and personally fire me. Later on, I found out my boss had totally shafted me and blamed the failure of a big project on me instead of admitting it was all his fault. FML
Today, my boss told me to stop giving work to our college intern because it's an embarrassment to have someone who hasn't finished college working for him. This is the same boss who constantly brags about being a high school drop out. FML
Today, my boss threw me out of her office during a conference call for daring to correct her. The client fired the company because she subsequently got all the information on the call wrong, and plainly had no idea what was going on. From all the screaming, this is now all my fault. FML
Today, my boss made me give a presentation to several senior company officials about the serious financial losses our division has made this year. Barely an hour later, my boss had palmed all the blame off onto me and gotten me fired. FML
Today, my boss finally checked the presentation I have been working on for three weeks. She called me into her office, and told me everything was dreadful, and requested me to start from scratch. It's due in half an hour. FML
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Top comments
Crenny 16
Unless he is paying you I wouldn't help him at all. His stupidity doesn't warrant you having to help.
byron17 26
That's actually great work experience....even if it lasts for a day....
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silveronica5 12
Oohh, good luck with it
MaddyLannister 8
you're an Intern which means anything you'll do for him will benefit you. not necessarily in the shape of money here. but in the shape of experience. if i were you I'd do the work with all heart to gain experience and then someday replace an experienced and expensive marketing director somewhere.
fivetimeslonger 24
That's not always how it works. Besides, who has time to bust their ass like they're getting a paycheck when they aren't being paid? Experience doesn't pay the rent.
sjbartholome 14
"experience doesn't pay the rent" okay well then why join internships in the first place then?
mvc3ftw 17
cause it is required i guess
Fuhkyoo 17
Sell your soul to satan and take adderal, get shit done
fivetimeslonger 24
Internships, in theory, are great. Gain experience and network connections while still in school... Awesome! But, as usual, greed took over and now college grads/almost grads are being taken advantage of and run like corporate slaves, and most are unpaid. Sorry, op. Hope you can find a way to reason with your boss and/or get out of there and into a better situation!
vlader08 13
Make sure its not a ruse to test you under pressure so don't drop the ball, if he is paying you, suck it up and do your best, you don't know what he's thinking/planing. ;)
chrisstachon 30
Ask for pay and think of it as a promotion
newburton13 26
I don't know how it is in the UK, but in America that's super illegal.
sofitina 20
It's not illegal. The boss can argue that he's trying to give him exp. and not make him "slave labor".
ericcrash 13
35-For extended periods of time, yes it is illegal. The point of an unpaid internship is to learn and maybe working for a few days like a job is okay, but if it's one job for too long then it's not really legal.
MaddyLannister 8
#35 experience always pays back.
amisenho 11
That depends on how well you get along with your boss. For instance, for the past three years, I've been the only (and I mean only) employee under my current boss, and I've been denied two better-paying government jobs so far this year, just because he continually gives bad references for the slave labor he calls my work. Since I'm a lab technician/IT assistant/field associate/secretary/business associate/HR director, there's no one else potential employers can talk to about the quality of my work other than my boss, so I'm essentially screwed from finding any other jobs in my career field, even though I have the necessary experience. Even if I were to quit, it wouldn't change my boss's attitude when speaking with employers, so I'm stuck in an endless loop of underpaid, overworked job experience with no valuable references. Experience can sometimes mean moot if your employer/sole coworker is a big enough jerk. A word of advice, OP: be extremely wary of small companies, especially when you can count the number of current employees on one hand.
Aero_x 21
it depends on what company you are working for if you get paid as an intern or not. being an intern is not an actual job so they don't have to pay you...but if he is going to make you do an expensive job then I don't see the worth in it, even if it is just for the experience.
weveallbeenthere 30
if it's your job, you do it, and for it to the best of your ability.
worldclassrager 41
Well I guess you can call that a promotion from intern to hopefully a paid employee