There is no doubt that the word is out about AIESEC Chandigarh! Since we have installed a counter on this blog it has had over 700 visitors in 3 days. Not to mention that the visitors are from all around the world. Almost every continent in fact! Are we happy we have reached this many people? Yes. But the reasons why need to be VERY clearly clarified-
1)Is it because we are a minority of evil interns? NO! Most interns are here because they want to make a positive impact on the world. Clearly people don't move to India for a great pay rate, they move here to make a difference. AIESEC Chandigarh has accused us of being a minority of interns who are ruining our experience here by starting this blog. I beg to differ- WHY?
Because we are enjoying it here. We love India, we love travelling, we love spending time with the other interns, we love the experience... we just don't love AIESEC Chandigarh. Did I wake up one morning and say to myself "I want to bring down an organization for no reason?" NO!!! I came here to make a positive impact and that's what I intend to do! I am not wasting hours of my precious time updating this because I am an evil, malicious person. I am doing it to help (repeat HELP) prevent future interns from having a terrible experience.
2) Is it just a minority of interns? NO! AIESEC Chandigarh argued that they were unaware of the 10 unhappy interns and stated there are at least 300 happy ones. The harsh reality is the other night we came up with a list of 15 interns (not including the 10 of us that were in the room) who had their internships broken and that’s only the people we knew. I can’t even imagine how many more interns there are out there. Can you imagine saving up all your money, flying all the way to India and not having an internship? Unimaginable!
3) Is it because we had a negative pre-misconception about AIESEC Chandigarh? NO! Most interns are AIESEC members in their own country. Therefore why on earth would they go on an internship with an organization that they had a negative view on? The rest of the interns are not AIESEC members in their own countries and therefore come here with no opinion formed yet and come here with an open mind. Therefore there is no one left to have a negative pre-misconception!?!
Just in case, to make things completely fair, we have changed the blog’s name to “The AIESEC Chandigarh Experience” and by all means- if any intern that is reading this had a wonderful experience with AIESEC Chandigarh leave an email address in the comments box and I will happily post that too! The unfortunate reality though is the more people that read this, the more people we talk to, the more publicity we get the more negative things we here about AIESEC Chandigarh.
In fact I was even in a business meeting the other day with a lady who did not want to include me in a project as she heard that I was affiliated with AIESEC Chandigarh. And no, I did not say anything bad about them in response but sooner or later it can’t all be called a “coincidence!” Speaking of coincidences it seems rather convenient that AIESEC Chandigarh is bending over backwards trying to make us happy now. Which brings me to my next question- is it sincerity or publicity?
Either way all we care about is gaining positive results for future interns so let’s hope that at the very least we can find a way to achieve that. All the current interns came together last week in our free time to make a list of outcomes we would like to see happen in the future to improve internships through AIESEC Chandigarh. Will keep everyone updated with how it all goes.
1)Is it because we are a minority of evil interns? NO! Most interns are here because they want to make a positive impact on the world. Clearly people don't move to India for a great pay rate, they move here to make a difference. AIESEC Chandigarh has accused us of being a minority of interns who are ruining our experience here by starting this blog. I beg to differ- WHY?
Because we are enjoying it here. We love India, we love travelling, we love spending time with the other interns, we love the experience... we just don't love AIESEC Chandigarh. Did I wake up one morning and say to myself "I want to bring down an organization for no reason?" NO!!! I came here to make a positive impact and that's what I intend to do! I am not wasting hours of my precious time updating this because I am an evil, malicious person. I am doing it to help (repeat HELP) prevent future interns from having a terrible experience.
2) Is it just a minority of interns? NO! AIESEC Chandigarh argued that they were unaware of the 10 unhappy interns and stated there are at least 300 happy ones. The harsh reality is the other night we came up with a list of 15 interns (not including the 10 of us that were in the room) who had their internships broken and that’s only the people we knew. I can’t even imagine how many more interns there are out there. Can you imagine saving up all your money, flying all the way to India and not having an internship? Unimaginable!
3) Is it because we had a negative pre-misconception about AIESEC Chandigarh? NO! Most interns are AIESEC members in their own country. Therefore why on earth would they go on an internship with an organization that they had a negative view on? The rest of the interns are not AIESEC members in their own countries and therefore come here with no opinion formed yet and come here with an open mind. Therefore there is no one left to have a negative pre-misconception!?!
Just in case, to make things completely fair, we have changed the blog’s name to “The AIESEC Chandigarh Experience” and by all means- if any intern that is reading this had a wonderful experience with AIESEC Chandigarh leave an email address in the comments box and I will happily post that too! The unfortunate reality though is the more people that read this, the more people we talk to, the more publicity we get the more negative things we here about AIESEC Chandigarh.
In fact I was even in a business meeting the other day with a lady who did not want to include me in a project as she heard that I was affiliated with AIESEC Chandigarh. And no, I did not say anything bad about them in response but sooner or later it can’t all be called a “coincidence!” Speaking of coincidences it seems rather convenient that AIESEC Chandigarh is bending over backwards trying to make us happy now. Which brings me to my next question- is it sincerity or publicity?
Either way all we care about is gaining positive results for future interns so let’s hope that at the very least we can find a way to achieve that. All the current interns came together last week in our free time to make a list of outcomes we would like to see happen in the future to improve internships through AIESEC Chandigarh. Will keep everyone updated with how it all goes.
Unhappy AIESEC Chandigarh (extremely happy with everything else) Intern # 1
