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Web Design Internship: Am I being exploited? Or should I continue to follow the promise of full-time employment?
06-01-2014, 04:21 AM
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Web Design Internship: Am I being exploited? Or should I continue to follow the promise of full-time employment?
I have been doing it for a month for 2 days a week, 8am to 5pm and 10am to 5pm. Straight away my supervisor wanted me to design for clients, these banners for facebook company Pages. I got an email with their company and a list of clients. I get promises of getting a job after the internship because this company "is still growing", so I work hard, all the way through lunch to complete things, but she says I'm too slow and need to work faster. I get stuff to do like display advertisements to be designed at home to work on to Friday (I'm doing university full-time so I get pretty busy).
Last week she wanted me to design a full 1 page website for 3 clients of my list (just a mockup not coding using photoshop). She gave me a template related to their business, their "old" website and company photos and colors, and I need to redesign this template by taking screenshots of the page, putting the images together in photoshop then editing them. Some have sliders and topics that are irrelevant so I need to change the text, name ,writing, images, contact details, background etc. of the whole page. I am too slow and take 30min to design a full page even with extra tabs (which I have to recreate too). She says I'm much too slow and even when creating sliders that I shouldn't take so long and she gets angry at me...I feel very pressured to go there, but do it for another month with the hope of gaining a job...but I don't know...

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06-01-2014, 04:28 AM
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After listening your condition i can say that they are not planning to give you any job after internship, They will use your skills and make good amount and later they will blame you of not completing the task on time and remove you from the company.

I can tell you because i am offering internship at my office, but i never behave with interns this way. I teach them new things on daily basis so they can learn those topics and implement in real time projects.

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06-01-2014, 04:35 AM
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After reading your situation, I can say because you have an internship with a web designing company, its typical that you will be given web designing works. However, it is not also right to pressure you to do a lot of job since you are still an intern.

Just do the best of what you can do to have a good score in your internship and look for job at other stable and reputable company after you've graduate.
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06-01-2014, 04:44 AM
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exploited?

it depends on whether the intership is paid or free and if the promise is in the form of a contract that guarantees you a position

without some compensation and a guarantee, you are being exploited

but there is a bright spot to this, IF you are not getting any compensation and no guarantee of work, keep a list of every client site that you have designed and IF they do as I suspect, and Mohd suspects, then contact their customers and tell them to either pay you for your Intellectual Property or remove it and quit using it

Most of these 'intern positions' are a con to get free labor
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