I’m doing my second unpaid internship before I graduate. For my “fieldwork” class, which I actually pay to take alongside my internship, I have to do video lessons on business etiquette. Meanwhile I’m getting Cc’d on emails where they use emojis, say stuff like “OMG,” and “EEEK!!!” I’m specifically told not to do any of that in these lessons.
I put in the time to triple-check grammar and proper name spelling and include a greeting and sign off, meanwhile everyone else is spelling my name wrong and sending incomplete sentences. It’s like they can do whatever the fuck they want because they already have a job and I can’t. One guy even slept during our zoom meeting.
I also spend hours designing graphics only to have the executive director completely change it. She calls them “tweaks” but it’s literally a whole different design. They give me vague instructions so I do my best, but then they say, “Oh, we should say this instead.” Like why do they even have an intern if they’re so specific about how they want things?
It feels like I’m wasting my time and embarrassing myself. I fucking hate this so much and I’m sure it’ll only be worse in the working world.