I'M FUMING!!!

I have been very impressed with my Spring Intern and was thrilled when he asked if he could stay on through the summer.... (Its a ten week program and our interns always leave right when we get them to the point where they are actually helpful).  He had approached me before I started the massive project of interviewing (25 candidates for 3 openings) and I told him I would be happy to have him stay for the summer, IF he PROMISED to stop looking for summer positions elsewhere -- I couldn't have him find something else after we had finished selecting our candidates and then I was stuck with noone.  (DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?).  Today, he informed that he is taking a summer position in NYC.  ARGH!!!

We are about to fire the useless Associate on our team and I was counting on my Intern to pick up a fair amount of slack.  Because I knew he was staying with us longer than normal, I have been going out of my way to train him.... now it seems, it was all for nothing - a complete drain on my time.  In the meantime, I found terrific interns for the other research teams -- one of them would have been my intern had I been looking (I get first dibs because I do all the leg work -- very time consuming responsibility).  Now I'm stuck scraping the bottom of the barrel.  Not only are the top candidates taken, but since so much time has gone by, our B list students have found positions as well.

I'M FUMING!!!