Fired From Internship
I am a graduate working as an intern while working on finding a full time position. As of recently I have been having 5-6 meetings/ interviews a week (I am paid hourly and do not get paid for the meeting times). Today I had a 9am coffee meeting and a 12 interview, and was texted by my MD (who is traveling for the day): “I think today should be your last day so you can focus 100% of your time on finding a job…….Turn in everything before you leave”
I’m unsure how to feel about this and if this will affect me in the future.
(My last day was supposed to be Friday)
they don't have enough work for you / horrible management. don't mention it on your resume just put the time period you worked like July - August.
Feel like I need to put it on my resume as it’s a big brand developer, and I interned here last summer too (only true real estate related experience/ the rest is construction)
I think he meant don't mention you got let go on the resume and just put like Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024 or whatever the time period was (don't specify it ended a week early)
Understood, thanks
Your last day was supposed to be Friday? So the MD fired you like 3 days before your last day? My initial impression of this is that it's a petty thing for the MD to do for a temporary internship with no return offer. I would approach this by being cordial and friendly. The MD obviously feels a certain way about you having all these interviews and no plan to remain at the current company, given that they went a petty route. So really the only way to approach this without burning a bridge is talking to the MD on the phone or meeting them in person and just simply say that you:
This reframes the situation so that the MD now:
Classic real estate management style of not addressing issues and then being passive aggressive about it later. A lot of people in this industry can manage a project but very few can effectively manage people.
That said, I will say that unless it was cleared ahead of time, I’d be annoyed if my intern was regularly spending their day out of the office job hunting. I wouldn’t let it slide for months and then be a bitch about it at the end, but there would definitely be a talk at some point.
I wouldn’t stress too much about it though. Definitely don’t need to go around telling people you got fired or anything. Sounds like “the internship just ended a week early so you could job hunt.”
I did the same thing during my internship. Would leave the office and crank networking calls. The company had zero work for me and I knew I didn’t want to work there when I graduated. I probably did 30 calls while working there. Ended up securing a great FT offer and it worked out well whereas others were left behind when the company didn’t give return offers and those that did get returns were laid off 5 months into their FT job. Don’t feel bad for networking when they don’t have work for you.
If they let you go now, then they probably were going to do it at some point regardless. It's foolish to think that you would not be looking for a full time job, especially if they were not giving you an indication that they would hire you or provide you with substantial work. As long as you were getting your work done/working well with others I wouldn't stress too hard on this, still list it if you feel confident that they won't give you a bad reference.
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