Terminated from my Internship

tenisghs
Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:23:37 +0000

It looks like I have been terminated from my job. I was in Chicago Friday – Sunday for a prestigious business-industry conference. I didn’t get home until 1am, went to sleep at 2am, woke up at 5am, had a 7am dentist appointment and headed straight to work. I basically only had 2 hours of sleep. While I was doing my work with my supervisor, fatigue ultimately took its toll on me. While I was reading some documents for my supervisor, I accidentally fell “asleep” on my desk. The vice president of the company was doing his walk-through to study the production of his employees and spotted me. He brought me into another room, and told me that he has to terminate me (even though the internship ends in four days) because he must maintain high ethical standards for the company. “Sleeping on the job” is a cardinal sin, he preached. While he understood that I was at a great opportunity in Chicago, he must lead and discipline employees.

So, I have to tell my supervisor, who will be very livid (I’m updating the database and everything for him) that today is my last day and will probably fight to keep me here until Friday, the end of the internship. The vice president told me that if I was really tired, I should have taken this day off (my mother forced me to go to work today.)I didn’t fight or make any excuses with the vice president. I will just have to leave, and my supervisor has to finish with whatever I was left out, even though he has two major projects due by Wednesday. The vice president told me to look at this as a learning experience. What have I done….