Interns saying dumb things...

[Scribbled_Notz]

As I'm sitting in the office today, I can hear a phone conversation one of the news interns is having with a friend. Classic line:

"It's total bull**** that I have to do obits today. They just aren't recognizing my talent here."

He's been talking **** about the rest of his intern class, too. I'm going to love sitting near this guy.

 

[Moderator1]

We are blessed with a truly great intern.
And if he's reading this: Get the **** offline and get back to work. I didn't leave the office so YOU could **** off!

Seriously, kid could not work harder. We just pile **** on him to see how much he'll take.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Notz' intern is the one who posts all the "hot young effin' studs who should be working major beat nows and be in pro teams' front offices by 25 threads."

 

[Seabasket]

The White House gets all the good interns.

 

[Moderator1]

We're giving him some very good assignments. Along with some **** work. Along with whatever else we can think of *** ****, I just thought of something else I meant to dump on him before I left. Thank gosh for e-mail.

 

[imjustagirl2]

The intern at my place is kick ass. He's helping me out with some stuff this week.

Awesome.

 

[Appgrad05]

Moddy, I'll trade you a case of beer (your choice) for your intern.

 

[Moderator1]

Make it half a case (Blue Moon) and I'll send him along later. Have to beat some more work out of him first!

Dude led our section three days running a week or two ago. We've thrown him into anything we need covered and he hasn't flinched.

 

[Moderator1]

Cheddar (extra sharp), still Blue Moon and he can.

 

[Moderator1]

He'll be there Monday (we need him this weekend).

 

[playthrough]

I remember how p*ssed I was as an intern to have to type piles of bowling scores...lo and behold, I typed bowling scores at my first three full-time newspapers, including a bureau of a top-20 circ. daily. The difference: as a full-timer I learned just to type them a ... bit ... more ... slowly :)

 

[DyePack]

As I'm sitting in the office today, I can hear a phone conversation one of the news interns is having with a friend. Classic line:

"It's total bull**** that I have to do obits today. They just aren't recognizing my talent here."

He's been talking **** about the rest of his intern class, too. I'm going to love sitting near this guy.

At one paper (some time ago), all four interns were female. Their day consisted of writing files about guys in the office (this was before e-mail; hi, spnited), then sending them to the garbage file without erasing the text. Thus, they could be read by others.

I think one of them ended up marrying someone in the newsroom.

 

[cougargirl]

Best I ever heard from an intern, who was on the phone when she was supposed to be writing a school board story on deadline.

"This is such bull****. They'd never have had me do this at the New York Times."

 

[sportschick]

Our sports intern didn't realize there was a chick in the department until he made a bad and slightly sexist joke, prompting me to stand up and said, "Hey, I'm a girl, dammit." He's now on his best behavior, and he's a helluva writer.

 

[DyePack]

Our sports intern didn't realize there was a chick in the department until he made a bad and slightly sexist joke, prompting me to stand up and said, "Hey, I'm a girl, dammit." He's now on his best behavior, and he's a helluva writer.

What was the joke?

 

[sportschick]

Our sports intern didn't realize there was a chick in the department until he made a bad and slightly sexist joke, prompting me to stand up and said, "Hey, I'm a girl, dammit." He's now on his best behavior, and he's a helluva writer.

What was the joke?

Something about a girl being passed around like a bag of M&Ms. I've heard it before from the guys. I think they were trying to get him in trouble.

 

[ballscribe]

Our paper's interns (there are none in sports, sadly) are blogging on the web site.

It is unintentionally hilarious comedy. I eagerly await every installment.

No freaking way I was that clueless when I was in their position. No freaking way. ;D

 

[DyePack]

Our paper's interns (there are none in sports, sadly) are blogging on the web site.

It is unintentionally hilarious comedy.  I eagerly await every installment.

No freaking way I was that clueless when I was in their position. No freaking way.  ;D

Links, dammit! I need fresh meat!

 

[alleyallen]

Getting an internship at my last paper was almost like a guaranteed letter of employment. We hired no less than five or six interns as full-time employees in the four years I was there.

 

[alleyallen]

Hey, how can this thread have gotten this far without a mention of the ever-great Krystal Grow, America's most noted intern (next to Monica Lewinsky, of course)?