<p>I have an internship with a small company; I've been there for almost a year.
I'm amazed how little some of the regular employees, including my boss, knows. He's trying to launch a turnkey website, something about Wall St or something, I don't know. Anyway, he's basically selling the contact information of thousands of Wall St. employees and employers without their permission: their email, their phone, their address, everything...which seems a little shady to me. Anyway, he also has some copyrighted information on his site like other companies' logos, one of the people working there has ripped off job descriptions from one of those college information database sites, there's a lot of copyright infringement going on. He asked me if that was legal (without credit to anyone) I don't know. Do I look like a lawyer?
Isn't that something he should find out? </p>
<p>He also knows nothing about actually creating a website. Doesn't know HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript...nothing. In fact, I had to find a host and pay for a domain for him because he didn't know how to. </p>
<p>Then, he asked me to design the site. I'm strictly a PHP person, as I put on my resume when he hired me a year ago. I don't do designs, I hate CSS with a passion. I can do it, but I hate doing it. I also don't have a creative bone in my body, so any site design I do will look like something a child vomited.
So I suggested he hire a web designer. Which he did.</p>
<p>Today (and the point of the rant), two weeks after hiring this woman, I find out that she doesn't know HTML or CSS and I have to translate her page from some Photoshop image into the actual page. What the hell type of web designer doesn't know CSS or HTML!? And why would he hire one who doesn't know anything about it? </p>
<p>So now I have to not only develop a custom idiot-proof CMS by myself (and anyone who knows about custom web apps knows that a full team of developers should be working on this-- he also isn't concerned with security at all because "nobody would hack my site. Well have fun after someone performs a series of SQL injections or tosses out an XSS attack.)</p>
<p>....but also design its prettiness. I'm a ****ing intern, not a full employee. And not a single of his other employees here is helping with this project. I don't even know what the hell they do. Some recruiting BS.</p>
<p>Luckily, I'm quitting in two weeks. I wanted to quit sooner, but I figured, as much as I roll my eyes at the job, I need to leave on good terms and that's what I'm trying to do. Frankily, I don't know why I stayed as long as I have. It was pretty evident that I was the cheap webdeveloper hire after the first week. I thought interns were supposed to assist...or get the coffee. I haven't gotten anybody's coffee. Does anybody here want some Starbucks? I'll get for you. </p>
<p>This job isn't even in my major. And if this kid keeps banging his ****ing hands on his desk like the idiot he is, I swear some NYCers will see me on the 6'oclock news being handcuffed for murder.</p>
<p>/Rant over.
I just needed to get that out. It's been churning for awhile.</p>