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October 16, 2000 Dear AIESEC Today, I am informing you of my decision to leave RDS and my traineeship one month early.� This morning I turned in my two week notice of resignation effective October 31, 2000. I do not feel welcome at RDS anymore.� I have been highly under-utilized during my time here, and currently the projects that I am working on are being distributed to others.� In all honestly, I do not feel respected by RDS.� I feel that I got caught up in a game of office politics and I took the wrong side.� I agreed with the old manager on many things (and still do) and this highly clashes with the ideology of the new manager. I do regret that things did not work out differently.� I greatly enjoyed this opportunity and I thank you for it. I know that we have clashed at times, and I have certainly made enemies within AIESEC.� For telling the truth and hurting the feelings of some, I do not apologize.� AIESEC has internal flaws that need to be worked on. By pointing these flaws out to you, I had hoped that things could be changed.� Instead many people took them personally.� That was not my intent.� AIESEC is a fabulous organization with great individuals.� But often times you are blind to the truth. Many trainees are having very difficult times here.� The exchange process is severely flawed.� AIESEC is more concerned with the quantity of traineeships than the quality.� One trainee that is immensely happy and is achieving great things in his/her traineeship is far more valuable than 5 or 10 moderately happy trainees.� You need to screen your jobs better. The reason that I am sending this to RO-VOICE is that I have come to grips with this reality by talking to trainees from around the country, not only Bucharest.� My traineeship has been fairly good, as have others.� But there are many trainees that are highly frustrated and feel that coming here was a waste of time.� They did not gain any professional experience. One trainee works for a company that is highly unethical and lies to its customers, one did laundry for their boss, others do nothing but sit and read email.� Another spent the first few weeks of his traineeship moving boxes.� Is this what we are here for?� I don't think so.� Instead of properly screening jobs, AIESEC is just in a hurry to get trainees in the country, regardless of the job.� I urge AIESEC Romania to slow down.� You will achieve greatness -- with time. Realign your priorities.� Forget about Insight-2 and all that other stuff.� What does it all really mean if your trainees are not happy?� Is that not truly what one of your main goals of AIESEC is? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.� I'm not an AIESEC member at home, so maybe that's why I disagree so much with the way things are done here.� Honestly, what does it really matter if you compare to other AIESEC chapters?� Does it really matter how many Insight-2 users there are in Argentina or Zimbabwe?� Since AIESEC-Istanbul has 50 trainees, does that mean that you should?� No, it doesn't.� AIESEC Romania has no one to answer to other than itself.�� Exchange is not a numbers game, exchange is about experience. It may be too late for me and for others, but in writing this I hope that I can bring a slight change to AIESEC Romania so that things will be better for the next group of trainees. You are a great organization, and a great group of people.� I have made many friends here in Romania, and you are responsible for that.� I do not want you to think I am ungrateful for this experience.� It has been the best decision that I have ever made. I hope that this letter encourages discussion and hopefully can bring about small changes to aid in the development of AIESEC's future. I thank you for everything here.� While I do have my complaints, I don't regret for a minute coming here.� I hope to hear from many of you in the future.� If you ever make it to the states and you need a tour guide or a place to stay, look me up. Best of luck AIESEC Romania, Kevin Luther |
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KEVIN LUTHER is a great friend and fellow trainee here in Romania.� Any comments
regarding this article should be sent to KEVIN LUTHER, [email protected]
- Regards, Damien.� |
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