In what im studying 2 years of school and 3 months of unpaid internship in a company im which the school chooses is obligatory.
Unpaid in terms of they're not obligated to pay us, if the company is willing they could pay, the point of this is to learn how to work and apply what you learned.
These companies who gets unpaid interns to TEACH them are getting paid 3$/€ per hour per student they take in. So all in all they get (3×8)x90 = 2160$/€ per student.
However, that's not the fucking case.
They put me in a company where 4 out of 6 people in the department I got put are unpaid interns, and one of the non-interns is a newcomer who never had experience and have never touched a PC before.
What I studied is programming and networking, instead I got put in ticketing and incidents where I stare at the screen for 8 long fucking hours, in which when a clients machine has a problem we make a ticket and send that shit to the proper department.. That whole fucking thing is stupid and can be automated.
Also we cannot take any breaks nor stand upexcept for going to the bathroom, it comes to the point where my back started hurting because Im sitting down for hours straight, told my boss that we should have 15-20 mins breaks and I got told “No, nobody does that in any workplace, maybe in your country yes but not here” I was taken a back and fucking annoyed.
Also asked him if they are gonna pay us as we're working the normal job anyway and he told me “Im paying you knowledge and that's important”
This fucking piece of shit is so goddamn annoying that he has a mug that says “I am the leader”, calls himself a leader and is just fucking obnoxious. Doesnt teach us shit and when we ask him the fucker has the audacity to say “Don't ask me, ask your mates”
The only positive thing is the other workers or I say interns are fucking nice and tells you what to do which arent their fucking job in the 1st place.
I understand the point that these internship are necessary and all, gives us experience and shit but cmon man atleast make us learn something, not put interns in entry level jobs in which what we do is literally fucking work for free..
Also working remote is 100% possible but for some fucking reason Im obligated to come into the office.
For now I asked my school to change my fucking company and tomorrow Id call in sick and tell I got covid to make this whole shit remote, I am not getting paid enough to wake up at 5am eat 2 hours of commute just to sit down and watch 10 hours of my day go to waste for the next 3 months.
Fuck this system, and fuck these companies who take unpaid interns and make them work for free without teaching them shit.
I want to say that not all companies are like this and I heard some good experience from my mates, but majority of them are a cesspool of exploiters who will just waste your time and make you miserable. Makes me not want to work to IT consulting firms ever again.
Fucking waste of time.
Thanks for reading my rant.