Just morning rant.

My company usually take in interns from various university for various post. All of them are pursuing degree from local University. Now I have 4 engineering interns, 2 man and 2 women. I noticed that they have this kind of attitude, do as they wish. They came in as they wish, and clock out as they wish too. My company have this policy where u can clock in between 8-9am, and then u just clock out accordingly after 9 hours (8 hours working + 1 hour rest). From my point of view, we gave leeway already on being flexible on your working time.

However these interns came in almost 10, at least once a week. So my HR did an investigation and call those that have this problem. Their reason for being late? Simply overslept. Cant brain someone who went to university to overslept. I mean, they usually have class at 8am or 9am, they did their study for 4 years, and by this time they are not accustomed to waking up early? Don't they have to wake up early to pray also? I am not a muslim, yet I woke up when there is Azan because that is the way we are raised. Azan mean its beginning of the day. And this is not special case. Last year I had few interns with the same attitude, and some of my engineers also have this problem, especially fresh grad. Never in my life I was late to work due to overslept, even in my youth days where I partied until 3am, reached home and slept, and still manage to clock in at 8.30am.

I guess kids nowadays dont have that sense of responsibility and integrity.

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1. there is no such thing as forced. students can always look for course without internship.
2. kinda true to certain level. but that doesnt mean the students need to act like a bad employee.
3. there is no real obligation to absorb intern after graduation, especially the internship is on the second last semester. double tax relief is not worthy to keep the intern for the pain.

fixed 9hrs in office and you call that flexible? that's rigid. please update your definition of flexible.

again, it depends on the type of work.

My employers can come in from 7-9, and check out 4-6. That is flexible enough. We are specialist consultant firm, cant expect people to come in 11am. We usually have meeting with clients as early as 9am. Most companies, in or out malaysia practice the same thing.

Like u said yourself, depends on type of work. In my line of work where we are office based, this is flexible enough.

Your company allow u to work 3 hours for 8 hours pay? or u get paid by hour?

we work around the clock. work life integration. working with Intel AMD requires one to sync up with people in different time zone. sometimes late night like 12am. sometimes early morning like 6am. so you can split you work time at home.

u see, u work in IT dept. My friend working at Intel also same. We are working with local companies, so we have to adhere to local time.

So our situation same or not?

Is gen Z

Gen alpha too young to work unless the companies do child labour

Just morning rant.

My company usually take in interns from various university for various post. All of them are pursuing degree from local University. Now I have 4 engineering interns, 2 man and 2 women. I noticed that they have this kind of attitude, do as they wish. They came in as they wish, and clock out as they wish too. My company have this policy where u can clock in between 8-9am, and then u just clock out accordingly after 9 hours (8 hours working + 1 hour rest). From my point of view, we gave leeway already on being flexible on your working time.

However these interns came in almost 10, at least once a week. So my HR did an investigation and call those that have this problem. Their reason for being late? Simply overslept. Cant brain someone who went to university to overslept. I mean, they usually have class at 8am or 9am, they did their study for 4 years, and by this time they are not accustomed to waking up early? Don't they have to wake up early to pray also? I am not a muslim, yet I woke up when there is Azan because that is the way we are raised. Azan mean its beginning of the day. And this is not special case. Last year I had few interns with the same attitude, and some of my engineers also have this problem, especially fresh grad. Never in my life I was late to work due to overslept, even in my youth days where I partied until 3am, reached home and slept, and still manage to clock in at 8.30am.

I guess kids nowadays dont have that sense of responsibility and integrity.

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Not just kids nowadays. I mean when I was in uni, there are times that a lot of us skipped the morning session lecture. I'm pretty sure some of my gang are actually doing that, there is usually a guy or 2 who are more hardworking and he actually help us to sign the attendance

Me too. im not the brightest student in my class, and I always skip morning class. Most of my gang did the same thing. But when it come to work life, none of us ever been late because of overslept. And yet we still party until  3am, lepak at Asia cafe until 3am shisha, drinking, watching footies. Because we know if we fcked this up, we will be fcked for life.

ini uncle yang rant mesti Gen X. sure this uncle born on 70th - 80th. i'm not gen Z btw but FYI, in local university we can arrange/choose our own class schedule. Me back then, i like to choose afternoon or evening class. haha

1. you don't know alot of courses in msia is forced meh ? You are going to argue next, that if don't like, go study overseas lor. The you are going to argue, if cannot study overseas, don;t study lor
2. bad working condition = bad attitude
3. no shit, hence (2)

Actually, the best argument is, internship is good if it is run correctly.

It gives the undergraduates a sense of what to expect in the future.