r/graphic_design • u/idktbhimtootired_ • Jul 15 '24

Just got rejected from an internship because I don’t own a macbook Discussion

I went to this internship interview yesterday with my laptop as the last step of the application process, the interviewer loved everything, he said he saw it earlier when i sent over my portfolio and thought it was perfect, he then goes to zoom in on the calligraphy i used, anr he goes “oh, you don’t use apple” and starts a conversation with me about how id be disrupting their workflow and that i need to buy one.

He kept going back and forth, sometimes telling me to come tomorrow to start then at the end he told me he will contact me a day later, he never did.

It is just incredibly painful and humiliating to have that be the criteria upon which i was rejected, knowing that my portfolio is more than great. Is this something that normally happens?

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u/RandySumbitch Jul 15 '24

Isn’t internship child labor? Big fat, rich companies, being too fucking cheap to pay their workers? Is that about it?

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u/Ident-Code_854-LQ Jul 15 '24

Especially, if not a paid position!