02-04-2009, 02:28 PM
Allyson Wrote:For the first two years of employment we are "interns" which means we are mostly training and helping the senior analysts. It sounds like a great idea, except this training is completely mundane and irrelevant to my work. I don't give a eff what the phases of system development are because that's not what I do. I don't contribute anything meaningful and that really pisses me off. Some would take it as a blessing that I can come to work and play on the computer all day but I want to do real, meaningful work. And what makes me even more mad is the fact that when (not if) I leave, they are all going to go crazy complaining that they don't have enough people, etc. Well I don't do anything anyway so shut the eff up.
/rant
I always think set-ups like this are unfortunate. Here you are, a willing, motivated, intellegent women WANTING to learn, and grow in your work, and because of the way they have structured their workforce they are losing out!! We have someone new coordinating our "interns" this year and he has some great ideas of how to get them interested in all areas of our business. It only makes sense in the long run! Get admin assistants to do the other stuff. If you want an intellegent workforce you need to treat them that way from the get go.
Congrats on Texas A&M!!