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Interns in Shanghai fired and sent back to Singapore
Konzen Environment, a Singapore-based water treatment company, dismissed two interns working in its Shanghai's office on July. 02, 2007, and deported them to Singapore on the same night.
Daniel and Bridget, undergraduates from the Communications and New Media department in the National University of Singapore landed an internship after winning an essay competition organized by Konzen Environment in April this year.
Daniel shared a bed with Bridget on several nights in a twin-sharing female's room. This caused much discomfort to another female intern who occupies the same room.
Mitigation efforts to reach a consensus between the three of them, if any, went futile.
Daniel has been advised by the internship coordinator to cease his stay-over in the female room.
The final blow came after Daniel, in a fit of anger, threatened to report to the police, illegalities which he felt the company has committed.
The two-month internship stint is expected to end in four days. NUS has since apologized to Konzen for the incident.
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申城国大实习生遣送回新加坡
2007年7月3日，星期二
上海 -- 康升环保(上海)在昨夜数小时之内解雇两位新加坡国立大学实习生,并当晚遣送二位回新加坡.
康升环保是一间新加坡的水务处理公司.该公司总裁乃国大优秀毕业生, 因此与国大年年联合组办暑期实习活动, 使正在国大求学的学生有机会吸取宝贵的工作、社会经验与学习心得.
这次的实习项目共有11位学生被录取，其中有两位国大学生因朝夕相对而日久生情。男方因执意要在女方房间过夜而与女方的室友时常发生争执，双方彼此恐吓，闹得面红耳赤。结果，男方在一气之下恐吓道如果公司要因此事而遣送他回国的话，他将去公安局揭露公司莫须有的非法行为。
公司董事会闻此消息，大发雷霆，特遣财政主管于傍晚5点左右亲自前往住所与男女方当面对质，并把事情的严重性坦然告知。同时，男女方也获知自己被公司立即解雇的消息，需乘搭半夜十二点的航班直飞回新加坡！
起初男方不知悔改，恼羞成怒，与主管进行了好几轮的对质与抬杠。他多次挑衅，还讽刺道若自己坚持不离开上海，“公司能耐我何？”。但主管不受男方影响，还说若男方想去公安局报案的话，自己可以陪他一起去。此时气氛紧张，双方互不相让，剑拔弩张。过后，还透露校方对此事知情，若他再不知悔改，坚持与权利对抗，将把事情闹得一发不可收拾，回国后可能连书都没得读！男方得知此事，闻风丧胆，即刻改变语气，并表态希望能继续留在上海。
正所谓“一言既出，驷马难追”。由于男方恐吓公司在先，事情惊动了董事会与校方，而国大又对康升公开的表示道歉，男女方必须当晚离开上海，完全无商量的余地。在接下来的数小时之内，男女方收拾行李，依依不舍地离开了下榻近两个月的宿舍，放弃了一连串的旅行计划，双双蒙羞地被遣送回国。
早知如此，何必当初？男女方可能做梦都没想到，自己竟然在实习活动的最后地四天遭遇如此严惩与羞辱。6个钟头的直飞回程，令人思潮起伏。他是否会对自己当时意气用事所吐的恐吓感到莫大的后悔？或对自己损人不利己的行为感到无比的愚蠢？也许，双双堕入爱河的他们，只在乎有彼此的陪伴。也许，对他们而言，这真的就足够了。
问世间情为何物?
Konzen Environment, a Singapore-based water treatment company, dismissed two interns working in its Shanghai's office on July. 02, 2007, and deported them to Singapore on the same night.
Daniel and Bridget, undergraduates from the Communications and New Media department in the National University of Singapore landed an internship after winning an essay competition organized by Konzen Environment in April this year.
Daniel shared a bed with Bridget on several nights in a twin-sharing female's room. This caused much discomfort to another female intern who occupies the same room.
Mitigation efforts to reach a consensus between the three of them, if any, went futile.
Daniel has been advised by the internship coordinator to cease his stay-over in the female room.
The final blow came after Daniel, in a fit of anger, threatened to report to the police, illegalities which he felt the company has committed.
The two-month internship stint is expected to end in four days. NUS has since apologized to Konzen for the incident.
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申城国大实习生遣送回新加坡
2007年7月3日，星期二
上海 -- 康升环保(上海)在昨夜数小时之内解雇两位新加坡国立大学实习生,并当晚遣送二位回新加坡.
康升环保是一间新加坡的水务处理公司.该公司总裁乃国大优秀毕业生, 因此与国大年年联合组办暑期实习活动, 使正在国大求学的学生有机会吸取宝贵的工作、社会经验与学习心得.
这次的实习项目共有11位学生被录取，其中有两位国大学生因朝夕相对而日久生情。男方因执意要在女方房间过夜而与女方的室友时常发生争执，双方彼此恐吓，闹得面红耳赤。结果，男方在一气之下恐吓道如果公司要因此事而遣送他回国的话，他将去公安局揭露公司莫须有的非法行为。
公司董事会闻此消息，大发雷霆，特遣财政主管于傍晚5点左右亲自前往住所与男女方当面对质，并把事情的严重性坦然告知。同时，男女方也获知自己被公司立即解雇的消息，需乘搭半夜十二点的航班直飞回新加坡！
起初男方不知悔改，恼羞成怒，与主管进行了好几轮的对质与抬杠。他多次挑衅，还讽刺道若自己坚持不离开上海，“公司能耐我何？”。但主管不受男方影响，还说若男方想去公安局报案的话，自己可以陪他一起去。此时气氛紧张，双方互不相让，剑拔弩张。过后，还透露校方对此事知情，若他再不知悔改，坚持与权利对抗，将把事情闹得一发不可收拾，回国后可能连书都没得读！男方得知此事，闻风丧胆，即刻改变语气，并表态希望能继续留在上海。
正所谓“一言既出，驷马难追”。由于男方恐吓公司在先，事情惊动了董事会与校方，而国大又对康升公开的表示道歉，男女方必须当晚离开上海，完全无商量的余地。在接下来的数小时之内，男女方收拾行李，依依不舍地离开了下榻近两个月的宿舍，放弃了一连串的旅行计划，双双蒙羞地被遣送回国。
早知如此，何必当初？男女方可能做梦都没想到，自己竟然在实习活动的最后地四天遭遇如此严惩与羞辱。6个钟头的直飞回程，令人思潮起伏。他是否会对自己当时意气用事所吐的恐吓感到莫大的后悔？或对自己损人不利己的行为感到无比的愚蠢？也许，双双堕入爱河的他们，只在乎有彼此的陪伴。也许，对他们而言，这真的就足够了。
问世间情为何物?
posted by Alvin | 2:13 AM
7 Comments:
They. are. SO. disrespectful.
Although they won the opportunity to intern with Konzen, they can't even respect the company's house rules. (I'm guessing Konzen arranged for accomodation for them, that's why their internship coordinator bothered to advise D to stop staying in B's room.)
B's roommate gets it worse though. Did they think she would enjoy the live porn show they'd be carrying out? (If they weren't having one, she wouldn't have any discomfort to complain about. Right?) Did they expect her to leave the room and let them have it all to themselves, when it is her room as much as it is B's?
And because of this, D wants to report Konzen to the police for illegalities. Really now, does Konzen owe him (and B) internships just because they won the essay competition? Companies offer internship opportunities to students out of goodwill. (Of course they have other reasons, how offering internships benefit thenselves, but that's not the point.) And D and B repay Konzen's goodwill not only by not respecting established house rules, but also threatening them with police reports on things which are completely unrelated to their case.
Imagine having such people to work with, and hence to rely on. Konzen can't even rely on them to obey simple house rules, what more to contribute to the company's success?
They really deserved to be fired...
Ouch.
By the way, love your style of writing! Really news-like!
Sure, it was uncomfortable for the roommates to bear with the lovely dovey, but if they weren't such narrow-minded prudes as with Konzen all these wouldn't have happen.
Besides, I don't understand despite how can the company step into invade the young couple's private life? I wouldn't want my company ruling over my life.
Well as I said, I'm guessing Konzen bothered about this because they are the ones who made accomodation arrangements for the interns, instead of letting the interns settle their own accomodation.
Anyway, let's leave conservatism out of the picture. It's a simple contract as it is: They accepted the offer from Konzen, for interning and accomodation, complete with terms and conditions. If they break the terms, then Konzen has the right to withdraw the internship positions.
So what if it's their personal life? Sure, Konzen doesn't rule their lives, but Konzen's taking ownership for the accomodation, and passing it to the interns while they're there. If the interns didn't want to abide by those terms, they should've looked for alternatives.
4 big mistakes, despite fact that some argue it's B&D's own private affairs.
1) Privacy & Human rights are 2 separate issues. B&D haf e rite to privacy. However, so does B's roommate. When their act cause discomfort (even if argued she's conservative??), she has rite to request they observe proprieties esp since it's w/i her premises.
2) In the contract w Konzen, the Rules of Conduct are clearly stated. Thus Konzen's fully w/i rights to fire them. In trying to achieve a compromise, they're already showing mercy.
3) As interns, they should be aware of Shanghai's culture; prim and proper. If news have gotten out about late-night fiasco's happening w/i company's premise or by their interns, it would affect konzen's reputation. Out of simple respect for Company that provided internship opportunity, they should respect company's reputation.
4)Extortionist behavior displayed by threatening to report company. Doesn't say much of D's character.
We know of scandals among famous politicians, that caused their career to go downhill. I shall not judge the people's characters from the report, but the people's act. It's almost SOP in dormitories that males and females have to live separately, so that the host does not need to provide them with a bigger room for their children in 10 months' time. Even if there's no live firing going on, it will still infringe on the personal space of the room mate who doesn't have a mate sharing the bed. It will make the other girl's life inconvenient by having to wear undergarments when he's around (and we know that the bra should come off after being worn for more than 12 hours a day). Certain rules are in place not just for moral issues, but also for issues like being considerate to others. No surprise for the outcome of the matter, some things can be done, but you can't be caught and this is one failed attempt. The company surely won't risk its reputation to protect an incident like this.
I love dirty news like that!
erm I am not sure about this...
but... is it rude to laugh? lol
Interesting report.
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