"My mom writes my papers, "says new intern

[gozf]

Oh my god.  This is going to be a long summer.  I would like to state, for the record, that I did not hire this person.  No no no.  I will just have to babysit her.  How does a rising senior who majors in media and comm have her MOTHER write her papers?  And why on earth would you admit that to your internship supervisors???

She also said "sporastically" instead of sporadically. 

Ugh.

[MWOS]

[daisycat]

May 22, 2013 14:05:26 GMT -5 squirrelymom said:

I foresee a lot of stiff drinks in your future.

I'm sorry. I'm trying to find the bright side, but I got nothing.

The bright side is that she will have some good stories for us this summer 

[rupertpenny]

May 22, 2013 14:04:22 GMT -5 gozf said:

She also said "sporastically" instead of sporadically. 

Ugh.

She has obviously not watched Clueless enough.

[pantsparty]

Holy sheet. I thought this was going to be a link to an article, not a REAL PERSON that admitted it to her SUPERVISOR! WTF indeed.

[cuddlyevil]

I predict a very entertaining review at the end of the summer.

[gozf]

Apparently, she excels in design. Which is good, we need that. But I'm not a designer; most of my projects revolve around writing. So I asked her how she felt about writing. She said, "I don't mind it. My mom's a writer, so she writes me papers for me."

I stared. And then I blinked, and crossed out about half of my list of potential projects for her and told her I'd need to get back to her about what she'd be working on first.

She looked instantly panicked. Good.

[Deleted]

Wow. What a disservice to that kid.

Although, they seriously must not be very bright to admit this to a supervisor.

Please tell us stories throughout the summer!

[Deleted]

[cleo29]

I think the most my mom did for me would point out areas that I should use a different word, not telling me what to use, but discuss it with me so that I could figure it out and one time she typed up a paper for me when I was in middle school.

Actually doing my work? no.

[Deleted]

my mom would've had a stroke if i'd ever asked.

[gozf]

May 22, 2013 15:36:05 GMT -5 @astrid said:

May 22, 2013 15:34:23 GMT -5 cville said:

my mom would've had a stroke if i'd ever asked.

I'm sitting on this couch.  My mom would get PRICKLY if something like that came up.

Even if it only came up sporastically?

[Captain Serious]

"You might want to keep that under wraps."

[mrsjuleshs]

I have helped DD type up a paper she wrote (exactly as she wrote it and then made her go fix her grammar and punctuation) when she literally had 5 huge projects due last week week and 4 quizzes and 2 tests. But I would laugh at her if she ever thought for a minute I would actually write her papers for her.

[jennifertx]

May 22, 2013 14:09:40 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

May 22, 2013 14:04:22 GMT -5 gozf said:

She also said "sporastically" instead of sporadically. 

Ugh.

She has obviously not watched Clueless enough.

Clueless was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

[snickers]

Well, she's on the road to success, until her mom can no longer write her papers.
I can't believe she told you this, what a tool.

[gozf]

This is going to be a very interesting summer. Sigh.