#workedition

Office Manager: I’ve scheduled the staff retreat for [day that I am usually at my internship].

Me: I’m usually at my internship that day, but I’ll see if I can reschedule.

My immediate boss: It would be great if you could reschedule so you can be at this meeting.

Today, two days before the staff retreat, after I have rearranged my schedule at work and my internship to be able to attend the retreat...

Big Boss: Aubrey, you don’t need to attend the retreat on Thursday.  We’re mostly doing 5-10 year planning, so if there is something else you would like to work on, that is fine.

When she was “brought on” as my intern, I made it very clear that her work was going to be VAWA focused (dating and domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and rape), as it specifically applies to colleges and universities.  She would be writing a post for our office’s blog twice a month on something pertaining to those topics.

So far she has given me:

A post about Dance Moms, delivered at the end of January.  (This was her “sample writing piece,” so I’ll give her half a pass on it not being related to the VAWA stuff.)

A post about the negative stereotypes of African-American Women on Television, in mid-February.  (Great topic, but not what she was asked to write about - we did still publish it.)

A post on the Wage Gap in the US, in mid-March. (It was Women’s History Month, she was super excited about an article she found, so I went with it.)

An idea to write about Disney Princesses, which she decided not to do after I asked her to find a way to relate the topic back to gendered-violence and college campuses, especially since it was, by now, Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

A post about how college campuses deal with reports of sexual assault, which I had to heavily edit because she was misquoting things left and right and including incredibly false numbers, delivered about a week ago.

None of these were given to me without copious spelling, punctuation, and syntax errors.  I always had to edit it and send it back to her to make the changes.  

And now she is asking me for suggestions for her next post topic.  

It’s finals week.  I think we’re done.