Since last Thursday we were talking about how we should not write about a bad internship, because the company can get upset, I decided to write about my internship, but leave the name of the company anonymous. Leaving the name of the company that I worked for to the imagination, allows for me to freely write about how awful my summer internship was, and also the PR skills that they lacked. I find it interesting that a European day spa could be one of the most hostile places that I have ever worked. Day spas are supposed to be relaxing, but the spa that I worked for proved my assumptions wrong. I was the assistant to the marketing director. She obviously had some kind of personal problem with me, because she was rude from day one although I was doing her job for her and not being payed a dime (or even receiving a "thank you").
Why is this relevant to a public relations class? For example, I had to create an event that would promote the spa. To do so, I created an event that shall remain nameless, in which I brought all of my friends to. If my 15 friends had not showed up, there would not have been many people there. Since my boss was so rude/evil to me the whole three months that I worked for her, that event is no longer taking place because the boss cannot find anyone else to work for her. She also has made my friends and I no longer want to give the spa any buisness, and lastly, the PR that they are getting from me is not exactly positive. To prove my point, when you have someone working under you and having them do your job for free (because it is an internship) for three months over the summer, you may want to consider being nice to him/her because you never know what kind of PR you are getting from your employees.
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