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In reply to New Jack Karyn. It’s possible he had been assigned a project but went looking for other work because he was bored or didn’t understand the project. Confession, I did that at one train-wreck of an internship where they gave me a coding project *far* beyond my experience or ability and the only person who knew the proprietary coding language and was supposed to teach it to me was too busy or on vacation.
In reply to Anon for This. I had this, but only in combination with another coworker! We were both in IT, and both had the ‘magically fix it by standing near it’ field thing (by which I usually mean that it’s amazing how much more careful folks are when there’s an IT person standing there watching them.) And the coworker had the same ability – there’d be an issue, they’d walk over to see, and as long as they were watching, it wouldn’t break.
In reply to MigraineMonth. We had an intern like that! They informed us with great confidence that the ERP system the university used wasn’t very well written, and he’d put together something that should work better, so who would he talk to about replacing SAP with the javascript app he’d cobbled together in a week.
In reply to Productivity Pigeon. In the US it’s because most maternity leaves are covered under FMLA and as I recall FMLA rules prohibit you from doing any work on covered time, mostly as a protection for the leave-taker.
#5: Just started a new job, and my coworkers will put upcoming out-of-office events in Slack (and of course on shared calendars). I find it useful (for the stuff you explicitly stated wouldn’t be the case with external contacts) so I can figure out if I need to squeeze a meeting in before they go off-grid. So the email signature thing is kind of like that.
In reply to Artemesia. Yes! There is surely a formal protocol for this. Why would anyone, especially an intern, be allowed to just wing it? Or was she given instructions and she ignored them?
In reply to anonymouse. I worked with someone who couldn’t figure out fractions — this was at a summer job, at a deli counter, and people would regularly ask for fractional pounds. Even with a cheatsheet (1/4 =.250 1/3 =.333 etc) that matched how our scales read, she’d just kind of panic and give a random amount to the customer. She was really sweet and got a job in the same shopping plaza at a register, which she seemed to be good at as I saw her still there like a year or so
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