June 20, 2007

When the internship is not worth it

[pu2]: the simpler story said:

It turned out that the company’s main business was to conduct credit card telephone sales for one of the biggest banks in Singapore. The interns would work as telemarketers.

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on June 19//9:10pm and published by jseng, Agagooga :: 1822 reads | trackback (1)
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A whole bunch of companies see interns as free cheap labor and give them sucky stuff to do. Some even try not to pay them.

Posted by samdude* on 21 June, 2007 - 7:58am

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For me, I am just glad to have a good average allowance and a great supervisor....

hoho.. got do before 100sgd intern a not? aiyuh dun complain. u see what work u do.. u sales.. u enter telemarketing.. only sway what.. tell u waht.. internship dun mean u cannot find ur good internship u like.. its urself must take the effort to find