I work at a pretty big company and they have a program where students in school, can do the internship/co-op. The schedule is flexible and it’s supposed to be accommodating to classes. In the summer, they give the option to stay a co-op or work full time.
Now, when I got hired I was hired on as a remote worker. It was super unorganized and I would get like one easy task every 2 days - like putting in data to an excel. That’s it.
Then after 4 months they moved me to a different team where I took over someone’s spot (since 2 people left that team in a month). So I’ve been doing that role and I’ve been learning it pretty well so far.
But as time goes on I’m realizing I’m overworked like hell. For starters I’m taking two asynchronous summer classes but they want me to take the exams AT work. I was supposed to be hybrid for the summer but the company got RTO so I come in and drive 2 hours every day. I often have to stay overtime.
Next, they want me to build a powerBI - I told them that it’s still fairly new to me but I’d be interested in learning it and they were just forcing a whole project on me that’s due in a month… like what? They told me to watch YouTube videos to learn it. Not only that, when I reached out to a team member who specializes in power BI I set up a learning session so he could teach me a bit of the basics, and my manager frowned upon that.
Now they want me to do more stuff like presentations in front of the department head, another powerBI, making another dashboard, coding some data they are having trouble with, training this new guy on our team, and processing a couple hundred checks every week. I haven’t been able to go to ANY of the intern events at all which has been so sad because I’ve been wanting to connect with the other interns for months and I haven’t been able to because I’m so busy with this work.
I don’t know anymore. Tomorrow I’m expected to take my exam at work, I had to skip a really really cool event they were having for the interns today. It just sucks and I’m sad. They put so much pressure on me and I only have so many hours in a day. It’s to the point where I come home and I literally work more on things too and it’s not enough.