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Very hard to be confident that I’ve got a good answer for your question. I don’t know your major or your career goals. I also don’t know what alternatives you are considering. During my college years, money was something I very much needed. Given a choice between a poorly paying job and a higher paying less career-relevant job, I’d probably have opted for the higher paying job. If the internship is far from home, I infer that besides being low pay, it will bring you expenses to reside near the job. I can’t rule out your effective net income from the internship after considering your expenses could be less than if you just kicked back at your parent’s home. Can you afford that? On the other hand, kicked back and relaxed at home isn’t going to be much of an entry on your resume. I suggest that you look for alternative possibilities closer to home, but if you find nothing and can afford the low-paying internship, than if the internship has any relevance to the career path you are thinking of following, the experience might be helpful to you. (“Helpful” even if it results in your concluding that “Gosh, I’d sure not want to spend years doing this kind of stuff… I better re-think my career goals”).One other angle to consider: If you take the low-paying internship this summer, might it lead to something better later on? I had one summer job where the former manager of the warehouse had passed away. I was nominally just an inventory clerk in the warehouse office, but there was a twice a year report that needed to be filed with the IRS. I figured out how to pull the needed data from the inventory records and filled out the required forms. (Yawn). I was too young to sign the forms, but after I explained how I arrived at the numbers on the form to the big boss in NYC, he signed off on the report. And that meant I was the only living person who actually knew how to do that, so they hired me back for Christmas break too to fill out the next report and show the newly hired warehouse manager how it was done. The next year I was hired to do some clerical work in the corporate office in NYC. Matching freight bills to shipping records to make sure we only paid for what we had really shipped and didn’t pay for the same shipment twice (Yawn). I was a computer-science major so this wasn’t super thrilling, but while I was there, the IT department ran off a new report intended to make inventory management at the warehouses easier. Hey, I know about the inventory records that the warehouse operations care about. I reviewed a sample of the new report and found glaring errors in it. I visited the IT folks to point out the error, but the programmer was on vacation that week, so they let me look at the program myself. A simple mistake in a calculation, but once I saw what other data the program had access too, I was able to make some additional suggestions of how to improve the report to make it more useful. That turned out to be my foot in the door to a far more relevant job than matching freight bills to shipping records. Eventually I ended up as a system programmer supporting their IT department’s transition from an old OS to one much like we used at my college and they offered to hire me after graduation, but I had a better offer from elsewhere. Anyhow, my point is, don’t read your job description too narrowly. If you walk around with your wheelbarrow right side up, people will put stuff in it and some of the stuff you stumble into might turn out to be very good for you. Don’t be too quick to say “I don’t know” when the answer perhaps should be “I bet I can figure that out. Let me try.”

I worked as a stock clerk in the veggie aisle of a grocery store just over a year ago. Only lasted about two months, so I never got more than 6 and 8 hour shifts.Getting fired was mostly my fault, but the whole place encouraged a culture of minimal work and near-total apathy. You had to keep yourself looking busy so the manager wouldn’t think you were slacking off, even when there was literally nothing to do. I would purposely take super-long trips to the freezer, just to replace a single missing bag of carrots or put a few more tomatoes into my aisle. I’d stop the service elevator halfway between floors or even sit inside the freezer, minutes at a time, just so I could rest my feet. Never checked my phone, though; I wanted to avoid knowing the time for as long as possible, because nothing hurt worse than knowing how much of it was left. When I did do work, I was given contradictory instructions without much clarification — sometimes they’d want old produce on the bottom and new on top, to manipulate the fact that people expected the opposite, and sometimes they asked me to go with the conventional old-on-top method that everyone already knows about. They also generally had to make me take my lunch break, because I refused to work any less than half of my shift before eating (and often went well over), just so the second half could be less grueling in proportion to my fatigue.Speaking of lunch breaks, on my last day there, they implemented a new system of punching in and punching out for lunch, just as we did for starting and ending our day. Turns out almost every worker in the store was taking an hour or even longer for their lunches, sometimes even leaving for reasons besides lunch, while I was sticking to the designated half hour break. They got away with it because they were smarter than me — I was too tired and mildly suicidal to notice that my extended elevator and freezer trips were happening while no one or almost no one else was working in the store, thus consistently pegging me as the problem any time I left my aisle, even if I was leaving to actually do my job. Of course, it was near-impossible to relax when I ate my lunch, due to the poor quality of chairs and the moderately loud gossip taking place around the table, so like a moron, I felt I should eat lunch in the dressing room instead. Just to make myself seem weirder and less likable, y’know? Like I said, it’s mostly my fault I didn’t last, but nothing about the environment helped.When I walk through retail stores as a customer now, I see the tiredly neutral looks on the faces of the employees, and it gets hard to keep my mood positive. Already, it’s obvious someone in this store is suicidal or close to it, and there’s nothing I can do; that alone is a damper on my day. You can visibly tell when this is and isn’t true — for instance, I notice Staples and other technology-based retail tend to have much more involved employees, who actually look you in the eye. Skilled labour doesn’t always produce that result over unskilled (especially given that convincing people you’re smart is usually a more marketable skill than actually being smart), so there must be other factors at play. Personally, I think it’s layout and specialization — in the grocery store where I worked, and other grocery stores, it’s tacitly expected for every employee to know where everything is, even though they very clearly do not care and are already cutting corners on doing the bare minimum. Even for unskilled labour, if your job description is about only working a certain part of the store, you should be encouraged to do that part and have authority in it — not expected, in addition, to somehow pick up knowledge about the entire rest of the store, without even being told to do so. Tangible, explicit responsibility improves the work; when I was left in charge of my single vegetable aisle, I took better care of it, because my brain and body had a task clearly more enjoyable and important than simply being there. Shoppers tended to respond better to my attitude as well, because I could focus solely on helping them with information I knew, and it’s what I prefer as a shopper now.Regarding layout and specialization, I find a physical store is preferable to the Internet when I want something, but can only describe it in general terms. This might just be the fact that certain corporations have yet to catch up in web design (cough Best Buy cough), but regardless, it’s still a lot easier to find what you want in a retailer when you don’t know every detail yet. This applies to food, electronics, clothes, home supplies, virtually everything imaginable — many times, I’ve found websites telling me they have nothing like what I’m describing, probably because my description was too long or used complex language. I don’t have the time or patience to think about more common synonyms for what I want, especially if I’m not set on every detail; a store solves this by throwing a million options at me from the moment I set foot inside. Employees who are specialized into sections or even specific services amplify this effect; human beings are still capable of quite a lot that machines simply aren’t, and I appreciate how much work is taken off my shoulders. I know everything I’m describing is temporary; companies will catch up with giants like Amazon, and website design will eventually be pretty great across the board. Still, for now, it’s worth thinking about.I would also really appreciate not being bombarded with those automated self-checkouts. Get me a human cashier, please; this is less of a benefit and more of reducing a common headache. Not only are machines prone to failure that usually cannot be fixed without technical knowledge (which always requires some kind of technician to be called in, because nobody in this entire store has any technical knowledge), but they’re also difficult to operate when I’m tired and just want to go home. A cashier does all the work for me. People like to bring up sometimes that gas stations are almost completely automated and nobody seems to have a problem with that, but there’s a difference between gas stations and cashiers — an automated gas station requires less work from the customer, but an automated cashier requires more. Pumping gas isn’t that hard because the machines are reliable and simple in design; self-checkouts, in my experience, have way too many options for every step, and it takes too long to fix a mistake, so the whole experience is frustrating. Plus, you’re motivating theft when the customer has to report how many items they have in a bag — lost inventory’s not my problem, but it does annoy me knowing you’ll eventually notice and hire someone to glare at me the entire time I’m figuring this machine out. Essentially, punishing me for your own stupidity. Getting better designed self-checkout machines would be great, but that kind of investment into customer experience is pretty rare, so avoid all this nonsense by keeping and hiring human cashiers — you’re helping the unemployment rate, too!Finally, there’s that whole thing about wanting or needing something right now. Not in a few weeks, not even tomorrow, but now. Amazon does offer same-day shipping sometimes, which is quite impressive, but obviously only if you order before a certain hour — it is virtually impossible to ship me something in the same day if I order it at 7 pm and need it that day. I guess you could try having countless storage facilities in every city on Earth, but good luck with that, Skynet. Retailers can survive precisely because they are physical locations; I can still drive to one open at 7 pm and get what I want. People might adjust to buying things in bulk online, but there will still be a mass of surprise purchases that cannot be accounted for with online shipping, because the Internet isn’t magic.In other words, all that’s needed is to improve details of the workplace culture. Create a layout that encourages areas for different kinds of products, and then specialize your employees such that they are responsible for one area. The sense of importance will make their jobs more interesting and the quality of work better, even if the pay isn’t. Address self-checkouts; they should either be simpler to operate, or be minimized. If doing any of this becomes a trend, I don’t think retail stores will be going anywhere.