Come on, dear Madelaine, when some interns are hired for some companies is because this a internal policy which have been well meditated, studied and planned in order to get the best from this kind of personnel.
These unexpensive workforce is conformed for almost graduated professionals and it has been demonstrated they are as useful as their own employees.

So if I were this company’s CEO I would call for attention to all the Departments in order to take the best of this workforce.

I am a 30 year-graduated System Engineer with some experience in supervisory and management duties and the opening comment I did was the position of the bosses in my begining years as an engineer. Later I felt that attitude changed in the company where I spent my first 15 years of my career and those hired interns shown to be first-line workers, more efficients than some experienced employees.

So, it is hard, difficult and unbelievable to read that position against interns is still kept in mind if many bosses.

I am a proffesional of Third-World Country, but it seems there is not any difference with First-world ones…uffff

One further suggestion. I have managed our internship program at my university on and off for 25 plus years.

If the internship is connected to the university, the intern could have looked there for help.

I have coached interns through difficult situations like this on a number of occasions.

And 2 or 3 times I have intervened with the organization. Once I even pulled the intern, and found them a new better spot with no penalty to their grade.

Jeff

One further suggestion. I have managed our internship program at EWU on and off for 25 plus years.

If the internship is connected to the university, the intern should have looked there for help.

I have coached interns through difficult situations like this on a number of occasions.

And 2 or 3 times I have intervened with the organization. Once I even pulled the intern, and found them a new better spot with no penalty to their grade.

Jeff

Jeffrey L. Stafford, PhD
Professor: Organizational Communication & Leadership
Chair: Department of Communication Studies
Co-Coordinator: Communication and PR Internships
Co-Director: Leadership Certificate
Department of Communication Studies

Winter Quarter HOURS 2018

PLEASE NOTE: YOU CAN GO TO ANY CMST PROFESSOR FOR ADVISING

Monday: Office Hours 10:30 to 11:30, & 1:30 to 2:30 THEN HEAD TO SPOKANE FOR NIGHT CLASS
Tuesday: Working in Spokane, meetings, etc NOT AVAILABLE except by appointment.
Wednesday: Office Hours 9:30 to 11:30 & 1:30 to 3:30
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Friday: Office Hours 9:30 to 11:30, & 1:30 to 2:30

In general I will be on Campus Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays

Tuesday and Thursday I will be at meetings in Spokane

Rosie Rodriguez (new department secretary) can probably help you with signatures if I am not there.

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Address: 117 COMM Building
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004

Voice: 509.359.7929
Fax: 509.359.2496