26 years old Intern, Segi Grad.
First impression was she was pretty smart and intelligent, had lots of certs and CGPA was pretty decent.
But the red flag was that she left several courses unfinished and switched over to another.
Head of HR decided to hire her anyway.
I left by the time she came in, but I heard from my ex colleagues that her true colors came out after she became an intern.
Wearing spaghetti straps (covered with cardigan) to a formal dress code office, using the patients' room to sleep, changing her top in front of everyone.
One day, it seems she had enough and decided to throw in her resignation letter and never turned up.
The head had to call her back in to office for her to show her face.
Eventually they decided they didn't want her too, so they fired her.

cheapo labour also fired

intern cost prolly Rm300-500/month oni

if i am the permanent staff i will worry about that company futures.

my intern more powerful
immediately after punch in and open laptop, terus watch Youtube
after I back from pantry he still watch Youtube
free time? play Dota. play fckg Dota during office hour! and their seat even @ the entrance and staff walking around was like "wtf?"

there's always some non-senior or junior that can act as guide.

unless the company biz really good or really short of staff, then they should not accept any interns.

when company do bad, you need more salesman to up the revenue.

this is normal.

you retrench those supporting cast like technical support & engineering.

Sales & HR are the last ones to go. Usually the boss go before HR leaves.

dear advocado,

I came to this thread to read about people and their experience with horrible interns. And not about you telling people what they should do with interns, or whether we are from a failed education system etc.

If you have no stories to share, please step away and let the rest of us enjoy the stories shared here.

thanks

dayum.

i wanna hire her.

i had worked with my fair share of interns.
granted, 10 years back the quality of interns were much much better. at least they had initiative. the best ones, after 1month can be as reliable as a fresh grad engineer d.

got one very funny. my company is chinaman la and we do testing with a laptop on the road. so usually we ask interns to drive, and to observe the engineers doing the test and learn.
this foreign intern, i think hes from india, we ask you got driving license? he what also say yes.... then he drove... straight into the divider at the toll booth. turns out, he didn have valid malaysian driving license lol.
the dude too eager to please.. everything also yes... lol

normally intern not interviewed.. just assigned by university or college.

wtf u ask an intern to OT?

Okay guys since y'all are mostly employees, then I'll ask this question as a student

I'm studying Quantity Surveying, will need to do a 6months compulsory placement/internship soon. But I'll have to find my own company, the university will not provide it.

So on what criteria should I choose the company? Higher allowance? Size of company? Reputation of company?

And what will the company expect from me? Mind you that this internship will be graded by the company supervisor in the end.