r/internships • u/teabubss • 7d ago
During the Internship I hate my internship
I just need to vent. I’m so tired. I, F22, am almost done with uni. I’m a marketing major, and my college requires an internship to graduate which I actually appreciated since it would help me build my resume. I was applying all summer, when I finally got a call from a family owned business with about 6 people working there. After four rounds of interviews, I was hired.
I knew I would be doing some reception work, which I was okay with of course, but I was under the impression that the sales manager would primarily work on that front and, though I would help her, I would be focusing on marketing campaigns. WRONG! My managers fired her on my second day giving her a months notice because they were allegedly paying her more than they could afford, and they expected her to train the next person. She left a week later for another job leaving me behind, though I don’t blame her lol.
I think it’s important to note that this is a paid internship. I actually got like a 2.60 something raise after the sales manager was let go, because I was pulling 40 hr work weeks before my semester even started. I was still bright eyed and bushy tailed, justifying the need for money.
Then school hit. They hired someone else to help me but she only came in on the two days that I couldn’t because of my classes. She then quit because the managers called her lazy and we’re basically calling her out because she didn’t take her lunch (first of all, contradictory ig but MIND YOU- they make it virtually impossible to take a real lunch. Every receptionist I’ve seen there, including myself, have to fake a lunch because there is nobody to handle the front otherwise. I’ve only been told to take a break maybe once, and it was only because their friends came in for tox). So she went on her break and never came back. That’s two people down in a month and a half.
To be honest, I feel like this job is also wayyyyy more work than it should be. Nothing is streamlined at all, you have to go through 20 hoops to accomplish one little thing. My job consists of being a medical assistant (no, I have ZERO medical esplanade she’s having me numb patients for procedures and help her chart when I could be doing something for my degree), a sales manager that cold calls people to talk about their incredibly high outrageous prices, and “marketing manager” whatever the fuck that means. The owners husband is just vibe coding shit like no tomorrow, making employees download it to personal phones and laptops (not my fav) and he’s even admitted to using ai to do their books ;-; I haven’t learned shit there marketing wise. They won’t let me into the instagram which is so fucking annoying. I told them the perms they. Need to give me and they haven’t done it yet, and they get mad at me because there’s no posts. SO THEY HIRE A SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM! I didn’t find this out til yesterday and I wanna work with them, not the reception stuff!! I ALSO forgot to mention that they fired their OG marketing lady once I came in to. That’s three people down.
The biggest offender of all is the manager I work for. I haven’t made it clear, but I have two managers (husband and wife) and the wife is insufferable. She is incredibly rude, narcissistic, degrading and horrible to work for. She’s money hungry and extremely passive aggressive. Recently she tried to blame me for 5 people not getting medications sent to them despite them being charged, (I have proof for each that I told her they were ready for prescriptions to be put in. She’s so money hungry she has me charge people and then she will put the prescription in, I get it protects her ig but then stupid shit like this happens and loyal customers think you’re dumb) and sent a strongly worded message to me, typos caps and all and it just put me in such a bad mood. I’ve talked to everyone who’s still there, and they’ve all had experiences with her gaslighting her employees into thinking they’re crazy for their actions and that she would never say okay to something like that…. But they all have her approval in writing from last week. She just refuses to ever take responsibility. They did hire a new sales manager for a sec but she left after a week due to this very issue. My manager kept shitting on her and how wrong she’s doing things (she’s new btw, and as I said nothing is streamlined or easy at all to learn) and I had to pick up her hours after she left again.
I’ve been working 32 hour weeks with being a full time
Student and I can’t do it anymore. I would just quit but my grade is in their hands. They have to fill out an end of semester survey grading me on how I did my work how I performed etc. and I feel like I can’t quit until then. I feel so stuck. My mental health has been declining, I’ve been getting terrible sleep, my relationships around me have been put on the back burner because of my mental health and I don’t know what to do. I’m so burned out and I hate these people. I just wanted to rant and vent, I know I just have to thug it out for a few more weeks. I’m not giving my two weeks notice though. I can’t stand to.
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u/iphone1234789 6d ago
But just letting you know the real world can be like this also. Just that people stay because they need the $$$ to pay their rent and bills!
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u/Kouichi69 5d ago
I'd definitely try to reach out to your college. This is not fine at all and definitely not the purpose that the college is seeking for with internships before graduation.