I've been doing an unpaid internship for a program that I am in. It's the second week and I quit today. Why did I quit?
First off, for clarifications sake, I am a white woman in an office that is mostly Mexican/Asian.
It's an office of mostly other young women and they immediately started treating me different(worse) than another intern who is Mexican.
They have been gossiping about me in spanish. Although I am not fluent, I picked up on the key words like “pinche guera” and I got tired of being constantly made fun of, when I'm just here for work experience. I spoke with the manager about how it was making me uncomfortable and she “banned” spanish amongst employee only conversation. Of course that didn't work, they just have been more subtle with it and only doing it when she isn't within earshot.
I'm the office scapegoat for when shit hits the fan because they never mess up, are perfect little angels that could do no wrong /s
I finally got fed up with it after being called stupid repeatedly when I'm literally just a student trying to learn, so I told the manager they didn't stop and I wasn't comfortable there. That I would find somewhere else.
Of course, when she confronted them about all of this they denied it and tried to flip it on me, but now that I'm out of there, I'm sure their true colors will show and the truth will come out eventually.
I had my petty little exit and told the manager everything that I was holding back. It felt good!