Summer internship ceased

Looking for outside opinions because I genuinely can’t tell if I’m overreacting or if this was handled badly.

Started a summer placement in a different department at work a few days ago, with one day of training before being left to get on with things. On day 2, I checked with the person training me before doing something I wasn’t sure about, and she told me to go ahead - so I did exactly what I was told. Also got given conflicting instructions at one point (told to send people to the wrong location entirely), which didn’t exactly build my confidence that early on.

Then I got a call saying my placement was ending immediately and I was being sent back to my old role. The reason given was that someone claimed that while working from home, I was actually in bed in my underwear, said they could see a headboard and everything. None of that was true - I was sitting at a table in my living room, and my bed doesn’t even have a headboard. I ended up having to send photos of my bedroom and living room just to prove it.

The bit that really got me - the two girls training us interns were openly slating management to our faces, saying they do nothing and don’t train us properly, but then went straight to HR themselves about issues in the office. Meanwhile they kept telling me directly I was doing a great job.

Nobody actually asked me or either of them what had happened before the decision was made. It was two days in, and it just felt like I was written off without anyone wanting to hear my side.

Wondering if this sounds like a fair way to handle someone two days into a new role, or if I have grounds to push back on this more

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u/Latter-Oil2112 — 27 days ago

Removed from summer placement after 2 days - was this handled fairly?

Looking for outside opinions because I genuinely can’t tell if I’m overreacting or if this was handled badly.

Started a summer placement in a different department at work a few days ago, with one day of training before being left to get on with things. On day 2, I checked with the person training me before doing something I wasn’t sure about, and she told me to go ahead - so I did exactly what I was told. Also got given conflicting instructions at one point.
Then I got an email saying my placement was ending immediately and I was being sent back to my old role. The reason given was that someone claimed that while working from home, I was actually in bed in my underwear, said they could see a headboard and everything. None of that was true I was sitting at a table in my living room, and my bed doesn’t even have a headboard. I ended up having to send photos of my bedroom and living room just to prove it.

The bit that really got me the two people training me were complaining on Teams about management not training us properly, but to my face they kept telling me I was doing a great job. Then it turns out they’d gone straight to HR complaining that I worked in my underwear, I didn’t know difference between Ennis and enniscorthy(I did) , while never once raising anything with me directly.

Nobody actually asked me or either of them what had happened before the decision was made. It was two days in, and it just felt like I was written off without anyone wanting to hear my side.

Wondering if this sounds like a fair way to handle someone two days into a new role, or if I have grounds to push back on this more.

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u/Latter-Oil2112 — 27 days ago

Academic integrity issues

I’m actually so distraught and sad cause I keep getting TMA flagged for academic integrity and it’s so annoying because the wording are most basic and I actually do them myself. Like I write the most basic answers because of this now and still get flagged ? Like this issue is in going and start to affect me like feel like dropping it but I have spent way too much money on this course (hons biology)

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u/Latter-Oil2112 — 3 months ago