Ophelia, how absolutely liberating! I can just imagine how amazing you feel as it is not every day us interns are granted any sort of power in the work place.
I know exactly how you feel... I have also been pushed to quit an internship once. It was a small commercial production company in Santa Monica. After the first couple of weeks of working my ass off for them on shoots and in the office transcribing boring footage, I thought that my b**chy supervisor had warmed up to me. Well I was wrong! She asked me to go on a run from their office in Santa Monica to pick up lighting equipment from a company in Burbank! That is like a 30 mile trip each way!!! I was really broke at the time and it just so happened that on that particular day I had almost no gas left in my tank. So I asked my superior if I could be reimbursed at the beginning of my trip instead of at the end so that I could fill up my tank before I took off deep into the valley for a 60 mile trip!
Instead of being grateful and understanding my situation, she went off on me... 'how dare you ask for special treatment?' and 'it sucks that I have to bend the rules for you! No one should get special treatment.'
I was so furious I told her to forget about it and went on the run, brought back the heavy equipment to the office and then told her where to stick it! I sent a kind email to the heads of the company highlighting what had happened and I never went back!
I say good riddance to experiences like that! I have learned a lot from good internships and there is absolutely no excuse for miserable human beings. Not when I have seen how generous and kind some of the busiest and most successful people can be.
There are great people out there, and I am sure that your next experience will be exponentially more pleasant because you deserve it, Ophelia!
Big kisses to you and enjoy the wedding!
xxx Rose
Some people think interns are only there as someone willing to do the dirty work. I guess the more you get paid, the less HARD work you have to do!
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