#workedition

[gabyglifestyle]

#gabysrandomthoughtsoftheday #workedition #measaboss #changeemailfortextanditsme (at Carmel Valley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZLsEZlACp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[blazing-fireheart]

Lunch day 2 #workedition fared a lot better than breakfast! Wraps turned into a torn lettuce salad but I'm not complaining. Definitely starting to feel cravings for grains to pop up, hoping it passes soon 🤤 (at Social Finance)

[blazing-fireheart]

Breakfast day 2: fritters, hard cooked egg, and hollandaise, #workedition. I added some lump crab meat this morning and, I digress, it definitely doesn't look as good as yesterday, but it still tastes good and that's all that matters lol. Still feel pretty confident as I come into my second day, hopefully that stays with me as I try to keep from snacking at work 😥 #whole30challenge #beckalswhole30 (at Social Finance)

[marshareidartspresenter]

#Tuesday #iloveny #workedition Honored to be even peripherally involved in the production of Wangechi Mutu’s, “Banana Stroke” Mutu’s new work is a site -specific action painting integrating layers of images of the Kenyan landscape #performa17 #performanyc #wangechimutu #metlivearts @metmuseum @mutustudio (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

[ama0606]

Tagged by @sgtpeppers1978 for #bws #workedition (at North Carolina)

[breylee-tumbles-at]

A couple of months ago...

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.

Me: *fumes silently*

[breylee-tumbles-at]

Do not tell me “look on our shared drive for a document called ABCD” and then, after I spend hours digging through digital folders trying to find it, inform me that the document is actually printed off in a folder in your old office and I should have been looking for something called 1234.  That is not how things work.

[breylee-tumbles-at]

Update on the intern I have this semester...

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.

(All this to say, lesson learned.  Don’t just blindly accept someone as an intern because your boss said she was a “good student.”  Don’t just accept that you need an intern because your boss thinks that you need one.  (Especially when that boss is about to leave for a new job.)  Set up firm guidelines that state the type of topics they will write about and ensure that the intern knows what that means, or at least has a base level understanding.  Create a calendar that details when rough drafts need to be submitted and when final edits are due.  And be clear that it is THEIR job to come up with the topics, since THEY are the social media intern.  This is not the place for hand-holding.)