Hardworking intern gets told by management that they are not in “a position to agree or disagree,” so they quit: 'The red flags were the craziest I've ever experienced.'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 26, 2025 6:00 PM EST

Have you ever been an intern? Internships were curated for people who have zero experience in the work field that they are trying to break into. So, they do an internship that pays little money, if any at all. You figure out the inner working of your field and viola! You're on your way to being an expert. Sometimes internships can even lead to a full-time job. However, too many times does a company take advantage of this cheap or free labor. That is not what internships are for, you evil manglement!

 

This intern finally cracked and immediately quit. The entire internship team was getting pushed around and treated unimportant. They weren't making enough money, and the little that they did, the upper management would find a way to take it from them. The interns might not be learning the jack of the trade, but they're definitely learning how to see the red flags in a company!

 

The final straw was when this intern was actually agreeing with her upper management. They said they agreed with them. And the manager had to make sure this intern knew they were not as important as them, because he told them that they aren't even in a position to have an opinion. So, she quit the next day.  

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  • I quit an internship job after just a month and an half, but the red flags were the craziest I've ever experienced.
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  • I was doing an internship for a big company that offers remote assistance for legal softwares, the type "the client is always right so either help them or find excuses and take the blame when we mess up".
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  • I received ZERO formation (just a brief introduction about their softwares and nothing more), they made me speak on the phone with lawyers pretending to know what I was doing.
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  • No problem, I'm used to learning on the spot, I studied the softwares in my own time and I managed quite fine.
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  • The job was a 9:7 with two hours of lunch break, five days a week. Seems nice?
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  • Too bad you were expected to work extra unpaid hours since whenever the call arrived you had to answer no matter what, even if at the last minute before leaving.
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  • Bathroom breaks weren't allowed during your last fifteen minutes to make sure that you would work the overtime, and you couldn't take bathroom breaks if someone else was already on break to avoid reducing productivity.
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  • Plus they constantly arranged reunions you had to attend during lunch breaks (I'm talking 2/3 reunions each week).
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  • More often than not you ended up working 11 or 12 hours a day, that without considering the extra "homeworks" they gave to do alternately at home.
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  • All of that just for 600€ at month. It was a regional paid internship btw. Me and the others were supposed to get bonuses after very long calls (we were technically owned by a bigger international company I obviously won't mention here) but the guys in charge openly stole them. from us, and even made us write the forms so they could steal them from us.
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  • Not only that, to get more bonuses money they constantly forced us to say useless phrases so to increase the time (much to the clients irritation).
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  • Not only that, some of us had to do work for yet another company, without the knowledge of the first one.
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  • But despite all of that, what really set me off was that one of my many bosses (yeah we had many, often with conflicting orders) reprimanded me because when he expressed his opinion I answered that I agreed with him.
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  • (I didn't even disagree, I literally said "I agree with you"). He told me I wasn't in a position to agree or disagree, I should just do without questioning.
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  • Also he went on saying that, while I did a very impressive job for someone who just started, he could easily replace me, and the fact that I refuse to attend meetings outside of work time could be a reason to fire me.
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  • Oh, and before that he asked me to tell him exactly how I spent and I will spend the money they gave me.
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  • Again, this only after 1 and a half months of internship. I gave my letter of resignation the next day.
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  • Literally worst job of my life. Also they were planning some mandatory "education courses" about a political/religious party completely unrelated to the work we were doing.
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