Internships - Horror Stories

About every intern has an horror story about his or her experience. Personnally, my last experience was to be grossly unpaid but having to buy my plane ticket from the middle of nowhere to my workplace on the other side of the ocean. Another didn't get paid because of her nationality - as if you're not supposed to be paid according to your work. Some are expected to work overtime, even on week-ends, as if every minute you work as an intern is not already a sort of overtime (but overtime is paid!).

If any intern wants to share his or her experience here, I'll gladly welcome them here and give them a voice. Washington is full of interns and those internships are very sought-after. But the fact is that his competition creates the problem: if you turn an internship down, someone else will pick it and get the experience that you need. But if some solidarity emerge between the interns, if some sort of organization, like that in France, takes off, the situation might change.

It could start with your story.