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
I totally agree :)
ReplyDeleteI just hope they don't use my Photo for some publicity in some school in some place called Patiala :)
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for you guys!
ReplyDeleteWhy dont you try to reach people from MC?
I think that almost whole AIESEC India is like this so how can it help?
ReplyDeleteHey All!
ReplyDeleteWe are very surprised to read all these comments cause we, as former interns, have totally different impressions. We are not sure if all of you Guys had extremely bad luck or if we were so lucky. Anyways, our internship in India was an unforgettable experience in a positive way!
Maybe we just met only good AIESEC Chandigarh members or maybe a huge role played our attitudes. Coming to India, we knew what to expect (more or less;) and we were aware that conditions would be totally different from what we are used to. Generally, we treated all of our problems as Indian experience and part of adventure.
We are sorry to hear that you face so many difficulties but we just wanted to underline that there are interns who were and still are happy when they think about time they spent in India!
Cheers,
Olga, Diana & Kornelia
The one above must have been from aiesecers itself! Well, exactly the same happend in Kolkata. We were here treated like trash. Writing to MC won't help. We all tried that. Their procedures protect them, after 4 months of complaining one email from president of Aiesec Kolkata explaining that everything has improved (obvious lie but who will check that?) was enough to local MC. By now we collected 12 complaints from our interns. Maybe we could unite in this fight because alone we have no chcance? anyone responsible for this blog please contact me - bungie99@wp.pl
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ReplyDeleteI suggest all "happy interns" to write your EP ID numbers, otherwise you are not reliable, sorry. Anyone could write it, couldn't they?
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WOW... i was listening yesterday to ivan and lukasz... and i could not believe what they were telling me... about their experience with Indians, about this blog, about those bad experiences ... and i was like "can't be for real" as i had only good experience so far...
ReplyDeletebut... i love this blog... kicks ass totally! :-P i guess it's thanks to this blog that it's good experience that we have now ( or at least me) with AIESECERs, or at least most of them :-P
Why can't someone restart this blog. It's now August, and things have not exactly changed for the better, rather the opposite. We are now a interhouse full of DT EP who is not working. Aiesec Chandigarh have fooled us into coming to India in order for them to get higher numbers of interns, but they don't have not given us any work. We are now at our last week, and we have only had one week of work.
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