It's semestral break already. I am supposed to relax or travel and have fun. But I'm spending it with my OJT because I still lack lots of hours before I complete it. So, I'm having my semestral break with pay and allowance but gets tired in return because I work for more or less than 7-8 hours a day.
For this week, we were given a new group task which is to populate the forum page of our dear company website. We have our moderator which is our co-intern. So basically, what we do is post and post and post until we reach our quota which is 1000 posts. Aside from this new task assigned to us, we have other stuffs to do which our supervisor know.
There came a point that our moderator found out that others were not doing their tasks but instead doing other things. Because of that, she reported it to our supervisor. Our supervisor got mad and called the attention of the group. Our supervisor scolded us and yelled to us why we were working so slow in populating the forums.
I voiced out my opinion saying, "Sometimes, I fear to post a topic in the forums because it might not be a hit. I have my time wasted." I was able to say that because I was thinking that there are already other people/customer in the forums. My supervisor said, "There are no other people aside from us who are in the forums." Well, he challenged me and I posted something in the forums. It was only one but at least I contributed.
He then challenged us interns to make an essay exactly 100 words of what are we going to do after graduation. I'll be posting my humble answer in my next blog.
His closing remarks was bad. It made me upset. He said that out of the nine interns who are working, only three would be left due to violations and hardheadedness and if not because he asked for some consideration to the boss. If you were in my shoe and you heard that line, then you would feel embarrassed. So, what was he trying to say to us? I felt like giving up on my OJT with hundred hours lacking.
Things that happened this afternoon was unexpected. My co-intern said something that he is already done with his task and he's not going to help for today because he has reached his quota. And again, our moderator reported it to our supervisor without dropping names. Our supervisor was enraged with what he heard. This was his exact line, "God damn it, I do not have the time or patience for this shit. One more toe out of the line and I will do everything I can to invalidate all your hours worked".
As human as we are, we try to respect people higher in rank than us but with his reaction, I was really pissed. I wanted to scream out of anger. It was bullshit. Why would he invalidate our hours? What is his point? We came here to work and sit in front of the wide monitor for several hours. What The Fuck! It's not that if you are in rage, you should blame all of the team. Your anger should not be in a domino effect. I'm innocent of doing things wrong. I was working things expected from me and what's wrong with that?
There are times that issues should be kept within the team and not by reporting it immediately to the supervisor. Resolve things as a team. But we can't stop other's mouth from speaking directly. I hate those kind of people because innocents will be blamed too. Deep shit.
With all those negative stuffs that happened, I was still able to chat my supervisor. This was the story. In the forums, there were only six people assigned to post. There was this someone in the forum named Brendan Reed who I thought was our supervisor because he speaks English well and had his unique style of commenting in the forum. And prior to that, our supervisor told us that he wanted to help in the forums. I don't know how to state it in words but I'll let you picture it out. That moment when you say good things, this and that. Then came that person who'll contradict your opinion. I'm sure you've also experienced that. So, I was thinking that that was my supervisor. I was suspecting that it was him because his name is an anagram of Brendan. Before I logged off, I chatted him, "Bye sir.(With a wink emoticon)". When we were in the elevator, then I knew that that Brendan Reed was not my supervisor but a co-intern who is not part of the forum posting team but helped us in achieving our quota. Duhhh.