From TS story.. its the monkey who looks for peanuts. And I think the monkey should stick to his commitment. If he thinks the $$ is peanut, he should not accept the job in the first place. I want to know what this joker will be in 5-10 yrs. lol
An internship isn't about the pay. An internship is the opportunity to learn from people who have things to teach. Like mattlock said, this kid should be paying them to be learning from one of the best in the field.
If you're really caught up on your "pay peanuts, get monkeys" idea, then one simple word for anybody who intends to find any sort of internship or employment opportunities here - MIGRATE.
not every boss views internship as a responsibility to teach. many make use of the interns to clear backlog and do saikang...
hmm.. not bad :bsmilie:
I've met my fair share of irresponsible kids but this one takes the cake
A 16 year old wanted to join us for an internship. He's been asking around for some sort of internship so he can learn from "seniors", and all other flowery nonsense that you can find here in this forum if you look...
So we offered a standard $500 per month internship for 2.5 months. (based on poly internship rates)
He came in for 3 days and then left, leaving this sms:
"Hi sorry if this is too sudden. I wanted to leave this for tomorrow, but I decided that I don't want it to affect the new assistants. I've decided to quit this job. I won't ask for my 3 days of pay either. I'll take it as that I worked for exposure.
I have more than enough reasons to quit. Firstly being that the distance, which is too far and coupled with the timing, I don't even have time for myself after work each day. I know it's just the 2nd day in the office, but I know I won't be able to take it on a long-term basis. Secondly, it's just not my type of job. Also, I'd like to be honest here. The pay is just too little. After deducting the Sundays and Saturdays' half days, I work for 198 hours each month. In other words, I am earning $2.50 per hour. Taking $4 each for lunch and dinner, $2 for breakfast and $0.45x4 for transportation, I would be left with $10.70 each day. But even if you give me a pay rise, not having time for myself is enough to keep me off. On top of that, I have to spend time with my family and my girlfriend too. My parents support my decision as well. I apologise if I caused any inconvenience for tomorrow's meeting.
...Please do not bother calling to talk things out. My decision is already made."
funnily today I was telling my associate that I should be charging him for learning from us professionals.
wow I haven't felt this publicly bitchy in awhile.
Well , he have not went through NS .. really just a kid . Cant expect much from them
Funny, during lunch yesterday our intern from NTU mentioned that her friend interning at Barclays is paid SGD6000/mth.
Yes, 6k/mth for internship. No wonder all the kids want to join finance sector.
With that kind of pay, they can be really selective and attract only the brightest students. The best of the interns continues to take on their projects even after leaving, and many are offered jobs even before graduation. They take it as an extended job trial. If the intern do in the end join, the company is familiar with them and they with the company. They are more productive from the word go.
That, sadly, only seems to apply for particular sectors.
And well, as someone else has pointed out, an example is the banking sector. Using that as a benchmark, how many photographers or photography companies you know are willing to pay an intern $6,000/month?
If you don't want to, or can't (in some cases, or most, perhaps), then if pay is the sole basis of attraction in an internship-seeker's list (and this is a huge IF) - then indeed the brighest are taken, and by the time it filters down to the lower echelons in such a theoretical world, you'd be left with the dregs.
But of course, like many have pointed out in recent times on other issues, it isn't always about the pay. Some people really have a passion for certain things in life, others really don't want to engage in a particular type of work-life... There's so many factors that need to be considered and I won't just put it down to pay. I know many people who would without a doubt, be able to make it into a high paying job, but chose not to - and I'm sure all of us here know of such cases as well.
Not ideal but I don't see it as a complete disaster.
well, for me, i know that a lot of effort was done in planning my internship schedule on the management side... i saw their planning and meeting briefs hahaha.
assuming the same, yes, its a pretty bad disaster. especially when u requested for an internship, make ppl move mountains, just to pull out later in a not so cool style.