How To Lose An Internship In 10 Ways

You've spent hours hitting the books to maintain your almost flawless GPA. You gave up the Taylor Swift concert with all of your friends to finish up your internship applications. You woke up at 5 a.m. to practice exactly how you were going to walk through those office doors on your first day. After spending months preparing for the internship of your dreams, the last thing you want to do is jeopardize it from the beginning. Here are the top 10 ways to lose your internship, and (more importantly) how to avoid these mistakes.

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1. Get smashed at work happy hour

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Repeat after me: Happy hour with my coworkers is NOT a grown-up frat party. Needless to say, there is a fine line between having a little fun and getting completely bombed at an office event. If you wake up the next morning and can't remember the specifics of the previous night, you did something wrong. Especially when you're out with co-workers, always be in control of yourself. Even if you and a few people from your office just casually hang out after work, be particularly cautious of how much you drink and how alcohol is affecting you. Lauren Berger, better known as The Intern Queen, notes, "In fact, you could lose the internship if you get drunk and act inappropriately around ANYONE--remember everyone knows everyone. Develop that mentality." Let's review: responsibly sipping cocktails with your co-workers after work = good. Dancing topless on the bar doing Backstreet Boys karaoke = bad.

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Repeat after me: Happy hour with my coworkers is NOT a grown-up frat party.
Needless to say, there is a fine line between having a little fun and getting completely bombed at an office event. If you wake up the next morning and can't remember the specifics of the previous night, you did something wrong.

Especially when you're out with co-workers, always be in control of yourself. Even if you and a few people from your office just casually hang out after work, be particularly cautious of how much you drink and how alcohol is affecting you. Lauren Berger, better known as The Intern Queen, notes, "In fact, you could lose the internship if you get drunk and act inappropriately around ANYONE--remember everyone knows everyone. Develop that mentality." Let's review: responsibly sipping cocktails with your co-workers after work = good. Dancing topless on the bar doing Backstreet Boys karaoke = bad.

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[siyafrica]

04:39 PM on 06/28/2011

If you read the full post there is an interesting tip that says watch what you tweet, and it feels so archaic that your tweets become fuel for dismisal if they urk your superior. I was fired for some tweets I sent out about internships in general (I was crowdsourcing opinions for an article I was writing) and my boss stated that she saw my tweets and that is why she fired me because I showed no passion or whatever. The irony is that I was their social media intern, tweeting in my own capacity, and linked none of my questions whatsoever to their brand.

[jmichaelmunger]

03:55 PM on 06/14/2011

Shouldn't these things be called "Common Sense"?

[AllyCat7]

02:21 PM on 06/12/2011

Wow. Pretty l@me list. All were ridiculously obvious.

[MsBisOnline]

09:33 AM on 06/11/2011

It amazes me that we need to state the obvious but each time we ask students to "dress up" I am amazzzzzed at what they wear.

So thanks again for the reminders; they are needed

[Almondo]

04:42 PM on 06/10/2011

Hey, storing waterballoons under your hairdo is not listed. Wassup with that?

[Trittydi]

04:29 PM on 06/10/2011

I call BS huffpost - saying there are ten wats and not supplying them.
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[VirgoLinnea]

03:49 PM on 06/10/2011

If your doing of #2 on this list in any way affects actual employees, maybe you should just leave your internship immediately. Sure, this list was for an office, but I'm working on scientific research right now. We have a male intern diva who is negatively affecting the research every step of the way because he's so defiant and refuses to do what is asked of him on a daily basis. The thing to remember about internships is that no one is forcing you at gunpoint to do them - don't like it and don't want to do it, you do not have to stick around. Leave for the sake of people nearby who DO want to work, PLEASE!

[intolleft]

03:43 PM on 06/10/2011

I didn't see sucking off your boss in "his" office.

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

02:52 PM on 06/10/2011

Where I work, they don't stock the pens that I like so I just buy my own and keep one in my pocket.

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

02:48 PM on 06/10/2011

Snooki is an ungly dog hungry for bone.

[lightnessandjoy]

02:44 PM on 06/10/2011

Tell the boss you can count to ten, then stop at five.

[lightnessandjoy]

02:41 PM on 06/10/2011

What's amazing is that anyone would need to be told about such basic misbehavior. This stuff you should have learned in kindergarten.

[BLambda]

02:35 PM on 06/10/2011

SNOOKI?? Are you kidding me? - a waste of a perfectly good vajajay

[darquelourd]

02:16 PM on 06/10/2011

is this an unpaid internship? if it is don't listen to this author - do what you want. what are we talking about here? one line on your resume?

get drunk and steal em blind if you can - it might actually get you a job if you show some INITIATIVE

[GraniteSkyline]

12:58 PM on 06/10/2011

That's nothing! An old college friend of mine has all those beat!

She interned with a prominent US senator in the South (she was engaged to the senator's son) and was caught schtupfing the senator's chief-of-staff in the senators office by the senator!

They were both fired immediately and they eloped the same day.

Surprisingly, they are still together.

[hagagaga]

03:02 PM on 06/10/2011

I knew it would be something like this as soon as I read the word "senator."

[CHMB]

04:40 PM on 06/10/2011

I don't think this story can be topped. Unless it involves a chief of staff or president.