AD
2024-07-19 19:25:30 +0300

Hey, Is Anybody Watching the Interns?

Logo The New York Times
The New York Times
By Emma Goldberg

School is out for the summer but in some cases, so are the bosses.

AD
AD

Alex Hyman pictured his summer internship being one part Entourage and one part The Office: people screaming into telephones Ari Gold superagent style, others menacing their desk mates as unnervingly as Dwight Schrute did at Dunder-Mifflin.

Instead, the office of his entertainment agency was mostly empty when Mr. Hyman, 20, arrived in early June, on the day he had been told to report to the Los Angeles location. He waited outside a locked door until a colleague found him and explained that his boss was working from home. Mr. Hyman was dropped off in a conference room with his fellow interns. They spent the day navigating Excel and joking about it. (Whats an Excel joke? How do you not know how to use Excel, Mr. Hyman said, insisting it was funny at the time.)

I think everyone is a little nervous for the first day on a job, Mr. Hyman laughed. This definitely threw a curveball in what I was expecting.

Summer interns generally are aware of what awkward rites of passage await them. Most have to attend their share of stilted happy hours and softball games. They might have to nod their way through a brown bag lunch. Now, though, interns experience a strange new introduction to professional life. Working a summer job can mean commuting to an empty office, sitting unsupervised with other interns and trying desperately to impress managers over video calls. School is out for the summer but in some cases, so are the bosses.

Continue read on nytimes.com

AD
Logo The New York Times
Business / FinanceBy Emma Goldberg2024-07-19 17:46:17 +0300
School is out for the summer but in some cases, so are the bosses. Alex Hyman pictured his summer internship being one part Entourage and one part The...

Logo PR Newswire
Business / FinancePress Release2024-07-19 15:30:00 +0300
ORLANDO, Fla., July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX), a leading manufacturer and distributor of automotive and consumer...

Logo Benzinga
Business / FinanceBy Pr Newswire2024-07-19 15:44:00 +0300
LAS VEGAS, July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreams fade because most people do not have a strategy for momentum, says personal development expert Darren...

Logo The Independent
PoliticsBy Sam Blewett2024-07-03 02:29:14 +0300
Boris Johnson is under growing pressure over his decision to give Chris Pincher a ministerial role amid claims he knew about allegations against the...

Logo The Independent
PoliticsBy Sam Blewett2024-07-03 02:38:53 +0300
Boris Johnson is under growing pressure over his decision to give Chris Pincher a ministerial role amid claims he knew about allegations against the...

Logo The News Letter
PoliticsBy Aine Fox2024-06-28 21:11:52 +0300
Not laughing at a sexist or otherwise offensive joke or telling a friend to cop on are among the actions people can take in what is known as the Bystander...

Logo CBS News
Politics2024-07-13 13:00:02 +0300
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Alex Finley, a former CIA officer in the Directorate of Operations and an author of...

Logo Benzinga
Business / FinanceBy Pr Newswire2024-07-06 14:07:00 +0300
SALT LAKE CITY, July 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world finds its footing with pandemic-induced adjustments, one global CEO and bestselling author is...

Logo The New York Times
Business / FinanceBy Brett Anderson2024-07-11 12:00:25 +0300
WASHINGTON Few people understand the power lunch better than Ashok Bajaj. The restaurateur began his career here in the waning days of Ronald Reagans...

Logo The New York Times
Business / FinanceBy Patricia Leigh Brown2024-07-07 12:00:23 +0300
Alwin Jacob Smith became a free man last summer after being locked up for 21 years because of what he calls my little old rocky past most notably, robbery...

Logo U.S. News & World Report
PoliticsBy Reuters2024-06-27 04:50:39 +0300
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he expects to announce former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto as his running mate...

Logo BBC news
Business / FinanceBy Michael Race2024-07-19 15:26:03 +0300
Several airlines at Heathrow Airport could face disruption due to refuelling staff striking later this week. Workers employed by Aviation Fuel Services (AFS)...

Logo Nasdaq
Business / FinanceBy Reuters2024-06-27 04:47:50 +0300
SAO PAULO, June 26 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he expects to announce former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto as his...

Logo CNN
PoliticsBy Andi Babineau2024-06-30 21:07:32 +0300
(CNN)The man who sold a semi-automatic weapon that was later used to take hostages in a Texas synagogue in January has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms...

Logo The New York Times
PoliticsBy Maggie Haberman2024-07-13 03:11:14 +0300
Even by the standards of the Trump administration, a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, about the presidents desire to overturn the election, was extreme. The meeting...

Logo The New York Times
TechnologyBy Shira Ovide2024-07-06 20:34:44 +0300
Next time you laugh at musty old tech, remember that new technologies are often built on it. Caitlin Mooney is 24 years old and infatuated with technology...

Logo The New York Times
Business / FinanceBy April Rubin2024-07-03 15:00:05 +0300
David Proudfoot told investigators he applied for a security job at Walt Disney World and hoped to prove himself by highlighting lapses in Disneys oversight....

Logo The Independent
PoliticsBy Adam Forrest2024-07-07 22:11:18 +0300
Conservative MP Will Quince has agreed to return to his old job as childrens minister only one day after resigning in protest at having to defend Boris...

Logo PR Newswire
TechnologyPress Release2024-07-07 15:05:00 +0300
TORONTO, July 7, 2024 /CNW/ - When it comes to productivity, workers share more similarities than differences, new research from talent solutions and...

Logo The New York Times
PoliticsBy Maggie Haberman2024-07-02 01:54:20 +0300
Mr. Ornato, who was Donald Trumps deputy chief of staff for operations, has become a key figure in a dispute over testimony from the Jan. 6 committees star...