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       Re: Gracefully declining to write a letter of recommendation 
   DIR By: Victoria
       Date: September 1, 2018, 7:16 pm
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       > [quote author=Runningstar link=topic=638.msg12624#msg12624
       date=1535544424]
       > I love NyaChan's advice - but I wouldn't be comfortable doing
       it with this intern at this point.  In the end there will be no
       letter of recommendation given, and maybe the intern would learn
       a good lesson - but this wasn't letter writer's intern to begin
       with.  Her supervisor was unable to continue with the internship
       and so LW took over.  At most I'd turn it back over to the
       supervisor who accepted this internship in the first place.
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       > Now - going forward with new interns?  Exactly what NyaChan
       said, it is kind and helpful.
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       This intern is now the LW's intern. It doesn't matter that LW
       didn't choose the intern; she was assigned the intern by her
       company (the intern is the company's intern), and now is LW's
       responsibility.
       I personally believe that EVERYONE at a company has a joint
       responsibility to the interns they hire.
       [/quote]
       In my company Legal interns are chosen by my department head, so
       I don't think the responsibility radiates any further out from
       there. If our Legal intern was working on something with the
       Marketing department and they said they didn't have the
       time/resources to teach or work with said intern, I might
       mention that to my department head, but I don't have the ability
       to obligate another department in that way.
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