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You are making this sound so simple. It's freaken work. Look, I train interns and it takes a lot out of my day. Then they leave and I have to train more. And I don't blame them for leaving, who the heck even wants to do the same thing for decades? I know I didn't when I was their age.
It feels like your interns are leaving for more money, have you talked to your employer about boosting pay (or maybe just pay, given we are in america) for interns that are showing promise?
Yeah, this dude is acting like people's motivations are a mystery. No one gets an internship where they don't want to work, unless they have no other options.
Interns are not mysterious creatures completely alien to other workers. They want money and a career path. I guarantee you if being a janitor paid $300K, people would be lining up to do it.
Hey say it to me next time directly. At what point did I say that it was mysterious? It is pretty clear cut. They are young and ambitious and life hasn't crapped on them yet. Of course they are going to jump from job to job. I did the exact same thing. Also I don't have the fucking power to give someone with one year of engineering school a 300k salary.
Oh wait I forget because I manage people I am automatically in the wrong.
Also employer here.
I always hate how people believe solutions are easy and clear cut. FFS im lazy- if it was easy it would have been done already and I'd be taking the reward from it.
It's fine. Everyone knows that we are idiots. Can't scratch my ass without 4 peices of paperwork and 8 people giving me advice on how to do it.
Directly:
MONEY
How's that?
Sorry I should have said directly and smart.
I don't see how you took that from what I wrote. It "feels" like you have an ax to grind.
But yes the typical intern salary is in the mid-30s which is well above market rate and I have lobbied to get them more. I mean is the concept so confusing that maybe a 19 year old doesn't want to spend their life doing the same job and instead wants to try to work for a bunch of different sectors? The last one who left told me on the exit interview that they got a job with a certain very large Internet company and asked me what I would do in their position. I told him I would have done the same thing at his age. You don't say no to an internship with one of those.
To me it's simple enough. Humans don't change. When I was young I jumped around a lot and they are doing the same. One day they will be fat middle aged with a family to support and can't do that anymore.
I don't know how I became the bad guy here. I get them as much pay as I can, I give them interesting projects, I truly give a fuck about their success and when they leave I wish them well. That one that just left I made sure he had my personal cell and email address so he could put me down as a reference. And yeah he was screwing me over a bit. Spent all this time training him and leaves in the middle of a project. But that wasn't personal so I didn't take it personally.