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I'm in similar boat, wfh internships are a joke
BB, I sit around with my hand in my balls watching Netflix
Question deriving from this post: anyone knows how to make them give you more work if asking doesn't help?
I’d talk to analysts. Some firms are limiting work for interns because they fear leaking non public information so in general I think summer staffers are playing it safe.
Analysts will definitely have some work for you to do, most likely non of it sexy or fun, but if you want something to do I’d go to where the work actually piles up
Yeah, gaining your analyst's trust is a blessing and a curse lol. I'm actually so glad the internship is cut short- this fucking blows ass
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Can't say I'm surprised. Delegating work to interns is difficult to begin with - they're mostly a negative value-add. You can really only trust them with the menial tasks that you don't have time for, and it takes until mid-summer for them to really get the hang of it / stop making mistakes.
Now internships are shortened and 100% virtual. It's almost impossible to build rapport, start trusting their work, "swing by" to discuss a project or have any idea what they're working on.
I'd recommend that whenever you're given a task just crush it - do it quickly, make no mistakes, and ask how you can help next. Better yet - start to think about what the next steps would be, and offer to help with those. It's easier for people to say "yes, do that" than it is to think of ways you can help and schedule a zoom meeting to explain them to you
Lol I fucking wish. I’m doing back breaking work researching public and private companies in my sector and building presentations. I’m damn near seeing the cap iq home screen when I close my eyes....annddd I’ve yet to see my first check hit my account lmao
At an investment firm and my internship is fucking dead. I rode it out for first couple weeks but I’m bored shitless right now. I asked them if there was anything going on that I could do substantial work on and they pretty much told me deal flow is fucked. I just speed through the bs assignments and hop back on the PS4. It’s nice to get paid for what I’ve been doing since I got my 2021 offer, but I’m tired of this virus shit. Someone make a fucking vaccine!
Working my ass off and am not getting paid.
Meanwhile I'm at full capacity, can't wait to dump this stuff off to the new first years since you can't trust the interns with anything.
the worst is when an intern fucks up a simple task then asks quote "can i get some more intellectual work". god no, especially when you cant meet deadlines for mindless deliverables
i have interns that attend top ivy league schools and i went to a non-target. now i feel like i was a damn genius when i was an intern