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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Comments (85)
cobra2012 13
Your moment to shine has come
brokenheart2014 6
It's called ask for there spot ;) it's a good thing
The_Voytek_Bear 14
Do the best you can. As an intern you shouldn't be responsible (legally) for any mistakes you make. So you can't loose but you can win alot in terms of experience, resume and so on. If you fail, the boss will be the one to blame.
simsgirlgem 25
I purposely muck it up and if something happens hey I'm just an intern I'm not the jack wagon who fired the guy who does this stuff
lateralligator 12
In Canada is it illegal for an unpaid intern to do the work of a paid employee. You can sure for compensation. Not sure about the laws in the UK but may be similar
BigBusinessBruh 6
step up prove you got what it takes and land a awesome job
jmeshvrd 13
That means: show me you can handle this. If you can't, I'll find someone who can. If you refuse, I'll find someone who will thrive under the pressure and ill pay them what I would have paid you. My boss did the same thing. Now I oversee 7 employees. I've gotten 3 pay raises, 2 bonuses and an office. Or you can be pathetic like the people who said **** that in the comments before mine.
amisenho 11
It's risk you have to be willing to take. Going that extra mile may or may not get you what you want out of your career. After doing the work of five people at my current job for the past three years, I'm still making 10 bucks an hour with no raises or benefits yet, even though I've already been "promised" a pay raise three times since I started. It's even more disheartening that I'm the only employee at the company, other than my boss. Good on you that you were rewarded for your extra hard work, but it doesn't always work out for the rest of us; we just get another day of not being unemployed.
Saraishi 25
Talk to HR.
chrissyodol 10
That's a great opportunity! Do your research and try to do it to the best of your abilities. You might end up scoring a job
MJ_ae 6
Negotiate for the position after taking care of one or two of the clients.