No interns sitting at laptops in the background.
Instead, the company had interns sitting in a mailroom for a couple of weeks, stuffing envelopes.
In fact, the best companies have interns sitting no more than four feet away from their managers or mentors.
As the business matures, this will create the foundation of a strong, diverse leadership culture – at Crowdcube we have an ex-intern sitting on the management team alongside someone from Google, who joined us later.
Now her assistant, Kim, and three young female interns are sitting at counters on high stools – like a macabre cocktail bar – slitting the birds open, removing the guts, severing the wings and slicing off the feathered backs and chests.
The next morning I woke up, and [the intern] was sitting at the kitchen table with my mom talking about the business like it's his.
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, was the final speaker of the evening at Internapalooza, and despite the fact that the high-energy group of a couple thousand Silicon Valley interns had been sitting through nearly two hours of speakers, they were listening on bated breath.
One month into my year interning abroad, I was sitting in a police station giving a statement in broken French, and wondering if this was what my tutors had in mind when they told me I would gain 'life experience'.
So, next in went some cigarette butts and the black, watery juice they had been sitting in, plus a corn from the bottom of an intern's toe which just floated down until it was swallowed up by the pus.
The Mob was formed during a meeting about issues facing young farmers, during which an intern declared that better relationships are built working side by side than by sitting around a table.
