Re: summer internships

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Alex  <http://www.gmail.com/~alex.>
 > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:52:07 -0400
 >
 > Yes, I was thinking about doing it during the summer. My last day of
 > school is June 13th. I don't know when school starts for college,
 > because I haven't received all of my college decisions yet.

OK.  If you do decide to intern at my workplace, when do you think you'd
like to start?

 > What is the work environment like?

There are cubicals.  It's a relatively small building, but there are
several companies and buildings owned by farmerinthedell.  There is a cafeteria.

 > Is it formal?

Not really.  You do have to wear a shirt, I think.

 > What would I be doing?

I had some suggestions for my boss.  Top of my list would be to do some
basic statistical analysis on some of the data we automatically receive
which might be able to be used by our spam filters.

 > Also, where would I sleep? I'm assume that I'll be staying at your house.

Right.  We don't have much room here, so it would probably have to be on
our hide-a-bed or on our air mattress in our living room.

I was thinking that we could fly you out and back.

Oh, and from the message below, you see that the pay will be minimal.

 > On Mar 13, 2014, at 19:32, Robert wrote:
 > > I pasted in the latest mail from my boss below.
 > >
 > > Alex?  When were you planning on interning?  I assume that it would be
 > > during the summer months.  Do you have any approximate dates in mind?
 > >
 > > Feel free to ask any questions of me, or any requests, or send me any
 > > concerns, worries, hesitations, etc.
 > >
 > >> From: Leon
 > >>
 > >> Here's where things are at now. We'll still have to finalize on the hourly
 > >> pay.
 > >>
 > >> When would he start/end?
 > >>
 > >> Begin forwarded message:
 > >>
 > >>    From: Scott
 > >>    Date: March 13, 2014 at 4:18:44 PM PDT
 > >>    To: Leon
 > >>
 > >>    I got verbal approval from John. Do you have a tentative start
 > >>    date?  Not sure if it's too early or not but once we are sure he
 > >>    is committed then I think we start filling out the contacting
 > >>    paperwork through the farmerinthedell portal.  I have a contact at the
 > >>    contracting firm who I can reach out to on this.  How does
 > >>    an hour sound?  There is a bunch of paper work required by him,
 > >>    including a background check and drug screen.  It takes some time
 > >>    (potentially weeks).  Once that is done it will trigger the
 > >>    approval process which includes finance (Wendy).  The amount may
 > >>    be so small John can approve it directly.
 > >>
 > >>    --Scott