summer internship season is upon us — Ask a Manager

summer internship season is upon us

With summer internship season in full swing, your workplace may be experiencing an influx of young people who don’t quite know how work works yet.

This is often delightful! Interns can bring new ideas, fresh energy, and an ability to explain what brat summer is.

But part of hosting interns is accepting that they often don’t know workplace norms yet; after all, part of the point of an internship is to learn how offices operate. Unfortunately for their colleagues — or fortunately, depending on your perspective — that learning process can range from mundane to comical to downright bizarre.

At Slate today, I wrote about the funny things interns sometimes do. You can read it here.

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