How to approach bad job bridge internship

stevek93

Hi all,

You probably heard this 1000 times over now. But here goes I'm actually writing this on the PC in work cause frankly I do not care. I started a IT help desk internship with jb 4th of this month which has been nothing but empty promises from the employer.

I have sit at my desk here all morning since 9am doing nothing! I haven't been spoken to maybe get one or two words out of the people sitting around me when I try to say hello but that's it, I am not shy I am very outgoing and sociable. I have stopped asking about work to be done cause I'm told they will do it themselves. I have to just sit quietly from what I gathered.

This has been going on the past 3 weeks now am I am sick of it. I am going to pull the manager aside after lunch and say if things don't pick up I'm gone. More so to give a warning cop the f**k on and stop treating me like sh*t. But I don't know how to say it in a nice way I don't think I can. I am going to make a complaint with jb as well see what they have to say.

Its really demotivating and depressing when I have spent 4 years in college and come out to this crap I cant find a paid job I am looking constantly but no one will pay me everything is jb now. Can someone please advise me how to go about this.

Sounds bad, but why not turn it to your advantage - look at doing a course online that might help your chances of landing a better job down the line - plenty time to sit there and study and have an extra cert or two (cisco, vmware etc etc) that would help you no end!

If something else comes along in the meantime, jump at it!

livedadream

can you approach him again?

then report it to your jobbridge supervisor?

it sounds like they dont know how to run the scheme and take advantage of your skills and help you upskill...

its not the worst ive come across but there should be an officer in your DSP that you can talk to,

if you want to stay they might be able to have a quiet word and if you want to leave and file a formal complaint they can do that too.

best of luck.

stevek93

Deleted User wrote: »

Sounds bad, but why not turn it to your advantage - look at doing a course online that might help your chances of landing a better job down the line - plenty time to sit there and study and have an extra cert or two (cisco, vmware etc etc) that would help you no end!

If something else comes along in the meantime, jump at it!

Yes I could do that but the experience is what I am here for, there is a few things in IT I don't know about yet that I could learn in here if I am given the chance likes of real world stuff they don't teach in college, if I got that I would be set! Maybe they don't want to me show me to much in case I get a job elsewhere.

stevek93

livedadream wrote: »

can you approach him again?

then report it to your jobbridge supervisor?

it sounds like they dont know how to run the scheme and take advantage of your skills and help you upskill...

its not the worst ive come across but there should be an officer in your DSP that you can talk to,

if you want to stay they might be able to have a quiet word and if you want to leave and file a formal complaint they can do that too.

best of luck.

Going to approach again today. Your right its like they haven't got a clue what to do with me. Its like I'm there little got to buddy when they are stuck or busy. I would like to stay here but I don't know how they will take it. I don't want to start burning bridges.

livedadream

stevek93 wrote: »

Going to approach again today. Your right its like they haven't got a clue what to do with me. Its like I'm there little got to buddy when they are stuck or busy. I would like to stay here but I don't know how they will take it. I don't want to start burning bridges.

yeah your taking the right tack there.

its toughb ecause so many of us read about terrible jobbrdige where people are being used and abused but yours is the other case, they just dont seem to know what to do with you.

if it helps, ive been though both sides,

ask your supervisors if you can have a sit down to plan out the next 6/9 months, what do they hope you to achieve, what would they like you to have learnt by the end. etc etc

if they dont do that speak to the DSP.

Best of luck with it... keep us posted.

curiousoranje

You're not interning in a government department by any chance? I had the exact same experience as you if you are. Was two lads on contract to finish an IT project and myself and another intern were taken on. The two contract lads gave us nothing to do so that they could stretch the project out as long as possible. Was seemingly nobody in charge in the office, and we didn't get issued access cards to leave office/go to the bathroom/canteen unaccompanied until the third day.

I just walked after the second week of it. Life is too short.

Senna

Similar to OP situation but I got a paid IT role, infrastructure. First month was a whole lot of sitting around as my access requests were being processed, this was completely normal but once things started moving, I soon got more work than I could handle.
That first month I started doing online courses that I knew would be relevant later on. Told the boss that's what I'm at and he was delighted I wasn't just sitting on Facebook all day.
Spend the time studying, work will come your way, but if it doesn't, at least you have 9 months experience on your CV and more knowledge from the courses you took during the 9 months.

the_syco

What course have you done, and do you have the CompTIA A+? If not, consider it. Use the knowledge from it to find stuff that is broken.

stevek93

Senna wrote: »

Similar to OP situation but I got a paid IT role, infrastructure. First month was a whole lot of sitting around as my access requests were being processed, this was completely normal but once things started moving, I soon got more work than I could handle.
That first month I started doing online courses that I knew would be relevant later on. Told the boss that's what I'm at and he was delighted I wasn't just sitting on Facebook all day.
Spend the time studying, work will come your way, but if it doesn't, at least you have 9 months experience on your CV and more knowledge from the courses you took during the 9 months.

I am hoping things go this way. The manager is fairly sound all the more reason why I want to stay. I'll see do things pick up, I had a chat with him today he has big plans for me after the 9 months, its still hard to believe when all I did today was move a pc from one desk to another. I just have to keep bringing it up being nice about it, is there anything I can help with yadda yadda yadda.

Maybe they are afraid to throw me in the deep end just yet incase we share him away? I don't know, you don't know how to approach these things incase you case offense.

livedadream

stevek93 wrote: »

I am hoping things go this way. The manager is fairly sound all the more reason why I want to stay. I'll see do things pick up, I had a chat with him today he has big plans for me after the 9 months, its still hard to believe when all I did today was move a pc from one desk to another. I just have to keep bringing it up being nice about it, is there anything I can help with yadda yadda yadda.

Maybe they are afraid to throw me in the deep end just yet incase we share him away? I don't know, you don't know how to approach these things incase you case offense.

your taking the right appraoch though.

you seem to have a godo enough reading of it aswell,

my take on it is:

its one of those companies where people stretch out the work to make it look like stuff takes longer than it does.

they genuinely dont know what to do with you

they dont have any project work for you to do yet.

theyr sensing you out to see what your capable off.

the_syco

Pick someone, and see if they'll allow you to shadow them?