If you're relegated to menial tasks or given nothing to do, you can always network inside the office.

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The most common form of intern abuse is relegation to menial tasks like runs to Starbucks or the dry cleaner.

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Yet if no one is performing these more menial tasks, how will this new generation of IT workers learn the fundamentals?

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Of course, this will only be possible when human engineers are absolved from the mundane, menial tasks that hold them back from time spent on innovation and ingenuity.

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The automation breaks down with a loud clanking sound at this point, however, since the results then have to be zapped and served by a member of the species that Japanese robots have bred to do menial tasks a human.

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