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Maybe you should teach them instead of daydreaming about hypothetical situations. You were probably slow until someone taught you.
I'd rather drop that staff off on a deserted island.
If you’re in PA and are expecting everyone to be efficient, responsive, and excited about the work they do you’re in for a bad time.
Ignorance and lazy is not the same thing.
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I guess you guys need background? I give an intern a task as tie the GL to the detail or perform basic footing functions. They proceed to tell me I don’t know excel and raise up those hands. I sit down with them and show them how to do those functions. It takes them hours/days of maybe asking questions and still has nothing done. I pulled them aside and talked to them about it and they proceed to say I don’t have any excel skills. I showed this person how to do it again and I reach out to the firm to get basic excel trainings. I let them do the trainings during the audit so they can complete their assigned tasks. They do not. They IM other interns about how much they hate auditing and stare at the screen all day. This person doesn’t try. After asked to go though the APG and write down any questions this person may have and we will go over; this person does not. Even after showed what the APG is and where it is in the file. They don’t want to ask any questions and as soon as 8 hrs is up they disappear without saying anything to anyone. This is laziness every firm has had their version at one point.
Agree with MA1. Slow I can deal with - I'm still slow but certain managers loved working with me because they know they'll get a solid work product without surprises from me. Lazy...I'd rather quit than work with someone like that for 10 years.
Arghhh... and how do you fix slow? And I mean.
... extremely slow?
I would just spend more time upfront giving them directions. Or give them bite-size assignments by breaking things into manageable pieces where I tell them: here's all I want you to do for now/check in with me after you're done. And sometimes (in my case) it's managers telling me: I do NOT want you looking this up. Come ask me lol. Because I have a tendency to go on CCH/RIA and look up things I don't know and 2 hours later...
Yeah being slow from laziness has no cure lol. I would document everything, as in, write emails with instructions specifically telling them to check in before they leave and that you want things by a certain date. If they ignore, start CC'ing managers. Thankfully it's just an intern so let whoever makes decisions on hiring know.