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omg - Take Your Job Seriously!!
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Posted by: BekZoR
Okay... I honestly can't take this anymore!! I have an internship at a very big company for the summer. It's over in two weeks. I share an office with another boy (I say boy for a reason). Now, the way the intern program works, is that they have about 900 - 1100 IT applicants every year to the IT intern program. They choose 20 students from the pool for the upcoming summer. Needless to say, if you get in, you've got an 86% chance to get hired, and to have a long and healthy (they have insane medical benefits) life with this company.
It's a once in a life time opportunity to get accepted to intern here. So this boy who shares an office with me... guess what he does all day? You guessed 'work' didn't you? Haha.. nope... try again! What was that? You guessed 'learn about the company' this time? LOL, good try. No, no... you're wrong. He SLEEPS! Yes, as in closing your eyes and SNORING!!!
His bosses have walked in at least five times, and always joked about it. They're so buddy-buddy. He takes two hour lunch breaks, and SLEEPS ALL DAY! I'm not making this up, and it's not a brief 10 minute nap. It's for HOURS. Most of the time, he sleeps from 9am - 11am, then goes on lunch until 1pm, then sleeps from 1:30pm to 3:30pm when he leaves.
This is not a new thing... it's been happening for the last few weeks. It's driving me mad! How can someone be so dense?! Or if it's not dense-ness, what is it? Who in their right mind wouldn't sacrifice sleeping between the hours of 7:30 and 4:30 for ten weeks, to insure a job for life?!? I want to smack some sense into him! But of couse I won't - becasue hopefully that's one less person to be in consideration for a full time position.
What do you guys think? Is this normal? Are there scum-sucking bottom feeders in every walk of life? And at every level? What gives?
It makes me sick...
Posted by: Cettie
Scum sucking bottom feeders? That's my boss to the letter.
Posted by: 9:35
looks like your boss, who's opinion on the matter is the only one that counts here, doesn't seem to mind. since you're an intern and not a protected employee it would probably be best to just let it slide.
Posted by: TheeMon
yeah why rain on his parade when your better off then him?(i mean getin the job n stuff)
if he can sleep and get away with it, more power to him... if he snores stuff a sock in his mouth...
Posted by: redwench
the reason they tolerate it is because hes an intern. they know hes gone in a few weeks, so no need to get confrontational about things. they wont be hiring him 
Posted by: Bishop
he could be banging his boss.
I'd let my employees get away with a lot if I were banging them. But I wouldn't be banging any of them.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
I once interned in a broadcasting company and had a fellow intern who not only came to work an hour late, but always left two hours early, and althroughout the day when he is in his cubicle, he plays solitaire or chats with his friends on the phone... our supervisor just looks at the guy and looks at me, then says nothing ... I thought there was special treatment going on until we got our final grades... needless to say the guy got a very unfavorable grade and even more unfavorable comments from the supervisor, and he contested that grade the whole summer... of course, he didn't get anywhere, and I eventually worked in that same company after I graduated...
When I asked the supervisor about that intern, he just laughed and said he gets a lot of those types of people every year, and he always gave them the same treatment...
I would just advise you to keep doing what you're doing, and do your best. I am tempted to suggest that you talk to your boss and ask what's up with that, but as wench said you're just interns, and he doesn't actually pay you to work there, so unless this intern actually ****s up something, there's really nothing the boss can do short of a "civil" reprimand... as long as he isn't getting in the way of what you're doing and not disrupting your duties, it's not really your problem...
Posted by: BekZoR
Actually, we do get paid. Alot.  More than I've ever made in my entire life. 
For those of you who read my introduction, maybe you can figure out which one it is. :P
But nonetheless, thanks for the advice. I'm going to work on just letting it slide, and hoping that whoever makes the decisions sees that he's not workin' very hard.
Posted by: Bishop
I don't think anyone, where I work, takes the job seriously.
Not that they aren't preforming, or are preforming poorly... it's just that they don't seem to care. I can understand the casual mailhandlers tossing around packages, but all of the stuff we see is there for a reason, and while the potentially dangerous stuff is usually handled by a different team, here we are, opening and tossing with reckless abandon.
but hey, every day is like christmas for a couple of hours, so I just jive with it.
Posted by: BooRadley
Do you have to intern at your school? Maybe he doesn't want the job in the first place, doesn't consider the pay worth while, and just wants to do his time and move on.
But, yeah, just laugh at him and let it go. It doesn't affect you. It sounds like you're doing pretty well, so congratulations. Hell, maybe he WANTS to get fired so he can move back home and pretend he's a victim of a cruel and unforgiving world while he spends the next ten years living in his parents basement smoking reefer and playing Doom 3. If so, then it sounds like he's doing well, too, because that's about where he's going.
Posted by: laborat
Bottom line here is the bossman wants people who actually work hard. Anyone who honestly does a hard days work will never have to worry about being out of a job. What is sad really is that a whole generation has no clue what "work ethic" is. Everyone wants to be a manager type so they can sit on their butts, use the comp, and their brains. Key word is everyone since there is such a surplus, it's no wonder that management can pick and choose the best workers to hire. The real money at the moment is being made by simple grunt work building houses, people who use muscle and brains. Mostly illegal mexican workers since hard work seems beneathe so many of us Americans. Go figure.
Posted by: BekZoR
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Originally Posted by BooRadley
Do you have to intern at your school? Maybe he doesn't want the job in the first place, doesn't consider the pay worth while, and just wants to do his time and move on.
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Nope, this is totally un-associated with the schools. (Though, for the school he went to, they may have suggested it as a place to work - I don't know. Maybe he's taking it as credit for his major or something... but it's not *required*. I can honestly say that I don't care enough to ask.) 
Posted by: redwench
well, if he went to a different school, he might be required to intern somewhere. some schools do that, although they dont care where you do it.
Posted by: BekZoR
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Originally Posted by redwench
well, if he went to a different school, he might be required to intern somewhere. some schools do that, although they dont care where you do it.
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Yah... I just assumed he didn't. He and I both attend Wisconsin state universites, though in different cities. I've been to two schools in the state system, and both of them have not required it.
You do bring up a good point though, his school may treat it as a requirement. But still, there's no excuse for being a slack-ass.
Cheers!
Posted by: elhior_manwe
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Originally Posted by laborat
Mostly illegal mexican workers since hard work seems beneathe so many of us Americans. Go figure.
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I agree with most of what you posted but when contractors use mexican laborers it is not only because they work hard, which they do, but also because they can pay them less then they normally would have too, and they will still work hard. This may not be the case everywhere but here in Colorado illegal and legal Mexican workers do get paid less, for the most part, then there American couterparts.
Posted by: 9:35
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Originally Posted by laborat
Anyone who honestly does a hard days work will never have to worry about being out of a job.
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I got fired for refusing to work on a day I wasn't scheduled, three days into my two week notice of leave. The boss then called the owner of the store and had my next pharmacy job terminated as well (I was switching to a different pharmacy owned by the same guy).
You were saying?
Posted by: Bishop
he's not down with the corporate warfare.
no shills nine man, I'm hiring ten years ago, and you're all fired.
I don't think that makes any sense at all, but the pancakes command me.
Posted by: redwench
give over the pancakes, or the pink is no more.
Posted by: BooRadley
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Originally Posted by 9:35
I got fired for refusing to work on a day I wasn't scheduled, three days into my two week notice of leave. The boss then called the owner of the store and had my next pharmacy job terminated as well (I was switching to a different pharmacy owned by the same guy).
You were saying?
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You could probably file suit against him for that. For calling the other pharmacy and slandering you with clearly malicious intent that caused you economic loss. The ****er would deserve it, too.
Edit: OOps. I just noticed you said it was the same store. Scratch that idea.
Posted by: laborat
I stand by my remarks (in the context I made them -- whether being a lazy ass intern or hard worker would get you hired)...your situation not withstanding...there are other pharmacies...who no doubt would love to get a pharmacist who worked hard. a**holes are always an exception to the rule. (and yes I know management is full of them)
Posted by: Chaotic
Overflowing even.
Posted by: 9:35
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Originally Posted by laborat
I stand by my remarks (in the context I made them -- whether being a lazy ass intern or hard worker would get you hired)...your situation not withstanding...there are other pharmacies...who no doubt would love to get a pharmacist who worked hard. a**holes are always an exception to the rule. (and yes I know management is full of them)
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I'm not a pharmacist. I'm a licenced technician who can't use his former pharmacy as a good reference.
Posted by: uh...ok
Aren't you still really rich? How is that going anyway (the whole becoming rich thing)?
Yeah, sorry for being off-topic.
On-topic: but that doesn't mean you can't ever find other pharmacy jobs, right? Although yes it would be harder than if you had a reference, but still..
Posted by: 9:35
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Aren't you still really rich? How is that going anyway (the whole becoming rich thing)?
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i still need a job
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On-topic: but that doesn't mean you can't ever find other pharmacy jobs, right? Although yes it would be harder than if you had a reference, but still..
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I have a job at the hospital pharmacy if I don't find another place by the end of summer. One of my friend's girlfriend works as a tech there ($15 an hour as a two year employee) but will be leaving for college out of state sometime in September. I tried to get into Walgreens - they called me once, had me go to another store and deal with some computer walkthrough waste of time. They didn't call me back. No loss for me, the entire town seems to be ignoring them anyway.
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