Hello and greetings to all
i dont know even if i can post kind of things here. if this not suitable maybe tell me the suitable forum section
so, i am currently is a final year student in Bachelor in Culinary Art. and doing my 6 month compulsory internship and i am really struggling to completing this internship, i am drain mentally to keep my spirit up and desire.
i know my job as a cook and path of career as cook is not a easy job. it will be physical every single day standing, lifting, doing the job non stop 8 hours. and mental power to keep focus on the job.
this is not my first time to do an internship btw. this time is the third time i did it. so basically i already work at 3 5 star hotel. one of them are made 100% by malaysian 2 of them with international title. Out of all 3, current one is the one i hated the most and i have another 3 and half month to go.
Why do i hate this one? simple, i am do feel like to be abuse by the hotel hard and its getting ridiculous every single day.
1. the kitchen is massively under staffing. including me there are more then 15 interns, coming from a lot of the university. what i can say we are the cheap labor that they have. being Rm 200 per month and to add some salt with it, with any black and white they cut our allowance for epf, which i already inquiry the EPF through email that they cant do that. and i will be going to check my EPF account later.
2. some of the past or some of current interns do work more then 8 hours a day. FYI this hotel is quite different as their staff need to work 9 and half hours per day and they getting 2 day of rest day. like the office work lah. but intern do not have the option for that. we work 8 hours a day with 1 day off. for me that piss me off from the beginning of intern i did 2 hours of overtime, i believe only 5 times that i did get to go home nearly the time i should finish up my shift.
3. majority of the interns are very young. and alot of them from same university they did complaint to their lecture about finishing very late some of them not able to go for break. and their lecture did complaint to HR and the HR also do sent the complaint to the Exec chef. so these kids will be going home on time every single day. one extra hours of working they already piss so much even though not even 5pm yet. they start to be not i need mood their working is messy and left all for me to clean it up or finish their work. i believe they never understand this line of job that require a long hours of job every single day. if you able to go home early just call yourself very lucky. that bring to my next important point
4. zero benefit, zero compensation for us interns student do really make me feel like cheaper labor then the banglas and nepals. our extra hours no overtime being paid and cannot claim the extra hours for off day. as for some hotel did do that if you do extra hours not more then 4 hours a day if the total of extra hours is 8 hours that you able to accumulate you can claim a day off. for us interns nothing is being provided i believe this also making the others interns dont have any desire to stay for extra learning and of course complete the extra job that require time to time.
yes, i do understand doing internship is the way to get experience but do we deserve this? they expecting us to work like a staff but when we start to complaining they start calling us "just interns" "lucky to be here, we gambling taking you in" "your mistake gonna lead to more wastage to resources". i dont see any law that really helping us or protecting us. my past experience also saw how bad this hotel actually running and no wonder a lot of staff resign.
What to do? nearly every day 10 hours a day, saw staff that coming after me coming to work and they the one going home first. saw other interns going home exact time every day. really hurt me. what bad is i believe the HR kinda care and the are the one like no power. they say if any problem come see them. but nothing is being solve. no extra compensation, no benefit for our extra work. what is really bad is the staff get the service point thus the more busy the hotel with function the high the amount of money they gonna get. while we interns stuck with Rm 177.20 per month
sorry for rambling alot,
interns need some help..., struggling hard