the job wasn't useless... but what you don't seem to understand is that in a busy, fast paced(frequently undrestaffed) corporate environment, very few people have the time and the desire to waste weeks training someone who's only going to be there a month or two. consequently, most interns are stuck doing pretty mindless (for the most part)work.

so if you're going to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for your own ignorance and narrow mindedness. (F)

********article.nationalreview.com/430938/tax-season/mark-steyn?page=2
Mark Steyn Tax Season
According to theTax Policy Center, for the year 2009, 47 percent of U.S. householdswill pay no federal income tax. Obviously, many of them pay other kindsof taxes — state tax, property tax, cigarette tax. But at a time ofmassive increases in federal spending, half the country is effectivelymaking no contribution to it, whether it’s national defense or vitalstimulus funding to pump monkeys in North Carolina full of cocaine(true, seriously, but don’t ask me why). Half a decade back, it wasjust under 40 percent who paid no federal income tax; now it’s justunder 50 percent. By 2012, America could be holding the first federalelection in which a majority of the population will be able to votethemselves more government lollipops paid for by the ever shrinkingminority of the population still dumb enough to be net contributors tothe federal treasury.

2. In less than aquarter-millennium, the American Revolution will have evolved from “Notaxation without representation” to representation without taxation. Wehave bigger government, bigger bureaucracy, bigger spending, biggerdeficits, and bigger debt, and yet an ever smaller proportion ofcitizens paying for it.
The top 5 percent of taxpayerscontribute 60 percent of revenue. The top10 percent provide 75percent. Another40-odd percentmake up the rest. And half are exempt.

3.It isn’t even“spreading the wealth around,” as then-senator Obama put it in anunfortunate off-the-prompter moment during the 2008 campaign. Rather,it’s an assault on the moral legitimacy of the system. If you acceptthe principle of a tax on income, it might seem reasonable to excludethe very poor from having to contribute to it. But in no meaningfulsense of the term can half the country be considered “poor.” UnitedStates income tax is becoming the 21st-century equivalent of the“jizya” — the punitive tax levied by Muslim states on their non-Muslimcitizens: In return for funding the Islamic imperium, the infidels werepermitted to carry on practicing their faith. Likewise, under theAmerican jizya, in return for funding Big Government, the non-believersare permitted to carry on practicing their faith in capitalism, smallbusiness, economic activity, and the other primitive belief systems towhich they cling so touchingly.

4.In the Islamicworld, the infidel tax base eventually wised up. You can see itliterally in the landscape in rural parts of the Balkans: Christiantradesmen got fed up paying the jizya and movedout of the towns up into remote hills far from the shakedown crowd. Inless mountainous terrain where it’s harder to lie low, non-Muslimsfound it easier to convert. That’s partly what drove Islamic expansion.Once Araby was all Muslim, it was necessary to move on to the Levant,and to Persia, and to Central Asia and North Africa and India andEurope — in search of new infidels to mug. Don’t worry, I’m not soinvested in my analogy that I’m suggesting the Obama-Reid-Pelosishakedown racket will be forced to invade Canada and Scandinavia. For one thing, pretty much everywhere else got with theBig Government program well ahead of America and long ago figured outall the angles: Two-thirds of French imams are on the dole

5.In the Stockholmsuburb of Tensta,20 percent of women in their late 40s collectdisability benefits. In the United Kingdom, 5 million people — a tenthof the adult population — have not done a day’s work since the NewLabour government took office in 1997.
America has a ways to go in catching up with those enlightenedjurisdictions, but it’s on its way.Rep. Paul Ryan pointed out recentlythat, by 2004, 20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75percent of their income from the federal government.As a matter of practical politics, how receptive would they be to apitch for lower taxes, which they don’t pay, or lower governmentspending, of which they are such fortunate beneficiaries? How receptivewould another fifth of households, who receive about 40 percent oftheir income from federal programs, be to such a pitch?

We are now not merely disincentivizing economic energy but activelywaging war on it. If 51 percent can vote themselves governmentlollipops from the other 49 percent, soon 60 percent will be shakingdown the remaining 40 percent, and then 70 percent will be sticking itto the remaining 30 percent. How low can it go? When you think aboutit, that 53 percent of American households props up not just thiscountry but half the planet: They effectively pick up the defense tabfor our wealthiest allies, so that Germany, Japan, and others canmaintain minimal militaries and lavish the savingson cradle-to-grave entitlements. A relatively tiny group of people iswriting the check for the entire global order. What proportion of themwould need to figure out that the game’s no longer worth it to bringthe whole system crashing down?

Just to re-emphasize:
53 percent of American households props up not just this country buthalf the planet: They effectively pick up the defense tab for ourwealthiest allies, so that Germany, Japan, and others can maintainminimal militaries and lavish the savings on cradle-to-graveentitlements.
A relatively tiny group of people is writing the check forthe entire global order.What proportion of them would need to figure out that the game’s no longer worth it to bring the whole system crashing down?
:-S :-|

By 2012, America could be holding the first federalelection in which a majority of the population will be able to votethemselves more government lollipops paid for by the ever shrinkingminority of the population still dumb enough to be net contributors tothe federal treasury.
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just because someone didn't have enough income to file a federal tax return, doesn' automatically make them eligible for "government lollipops"... and many of those who supposedly pay for these "lollipops" also happen to be direct (and indirect) beneficiaries of government assistance...

53 percent of American households props up not just this country buthalf the planet: They effectively pick up the defense tab for ourwealthiest allies, so that Germany, Japan, and others can maintainminimal militaries and lavish the savings on cradle-to-graveentitlements.
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I guess someone has been bouncing some checks (or maybe they're just late with their payments), because our debt is pushing $13 trillion *-)