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Some interns simply aren’t the right fit for every company- and it’s better to recognize that early than force a mismatch. However, this is certainly easier said than done for some bosses, especially when you’re already short on labor.

What would you do if the dream intern you onboarded turned out to be a total nightmare hire? One guy recently shared a wild story about his own experience with this on Reddit. Here’s what went down.

I worked in a physiotherapy office and had an insane intern

2 years ago, I just had started working as a physiotherapist in a small practice and the only people working there were myself and my boss.

One day, I got informed that we would have an intern with us for a short term, and later that evening I met her.

On the first day she seemed like a quiet person and reserved, and she was paying really good attention to learning the works and how to help out in the practice.

That’s really the most you can ask from an intern.

In conclusion, she seemed a normal person.

And then the second day comes, where everything goes down to the drain…

When she came in the second day, she seemed very standoffish, aloof, and she did not speak or greet anyone when she came in.

Not a great note to start the day on.

When we had our first appointment with a patient, she kept tabs on me, following me around the whole day and not giving me any personal space to the point where she was disrupting my work.

She kept looking at the patients with a dead on stare and whenever someone spoke to her she would hide behind my back and look at them with disgust.

Despite all of that we let her finish one of my appointments because we were really packed and because my boss was late.

That sets a dangerous precedent.

As she was getting done with the appointment, the client thanked her for her services.

She didn’t say anything, she just looked at the client grimacing, and there was a long awkward silence between the three of us.

My boss also saw that something was wrong, but we thought that she was just tired or maybe she smoked some weed.

A bit of a generous assumption, no?

At the end of the day I brought her back home, because she fell asleep during work.

The third day, she arrived at work with just a pair of pants and wasn’t wearing a blouse.

As she came in she went straight to the storage room and changed her clothes, and that was very shocking to see.

They all seem a little too calm about all of this?

The whole day she was being very clingy, but not helping at all, and the only person she spoke to that day was to a random patient that she asked too many personal questions to.

When I saw that happen, I took her aside to ask her what is going on with her and if she’s okay.

I tried to explain to her that her behavior was not normal nor polite, and she just gave me the creepiest smile while a tear rolled down her cheek and I got freaked out and left.

Not a ton of authority being exercised in this practice it seems…

That day I told my boss everything and he decided to have a talk with her.

He called her into his office and he reprimanded her about her mistakes and made it clear that the way she acted was unacceptable.

After he said all those things, all she said was: “Where can you do laundry here?” and demanded that my boss’s mother clean her clothes.

Where the heck did they find this girl?

And after that statement, she seemed to have a 360 change and apologized for her behavior, blaming her tiredness for her attitude.

She asked if we could drop her at home and when we left during the whole ride she was demanding me to bring her at McDonalds to eat.

The next day it became worse..

How and why was there even a next day in this case?

She kept touching people inappropriately, touching their hair and their personal belongings and most people left due to how uncomfortable she made everyone feel.

My boss had enough of her antics, so we were desperately trying to find a phone number from her relatives so they could take her away because she wasn’t leaving no matter what we said to her or did.

At the end of the day she asked me again to drive her back home and I refused because I was really creeped out.

It’s undeniable at this point that something weird was going on.

I finally found a phone number and passed it to my boss so he could handle the situation himself.

In the afternoon when she came at work she kept following me incessantly until I told her off.

I informed my boss of her arrival, and when he came out to diffuse the situation and tell her to leave she started yelling non sensical things at him.

They really should have anticipated that something like this might happen.

My boss then called her brother and told him the situation, and he warned him that if she doesn’t leave the practice they would call in the police to the matter.

The brother told him that if he came there to whisk her away from the practice, it would just escalate things even worse and advised my boss to call the police to handle her.

When my boss phoned in the police and she realized what was going to happen she ran away from the office and we never saw her again since that day.

Well, that was nothing short of a saga. Let’s see what the good people of Reddit had to say about this one.

The comments were baffled by the severity of the situation.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a longtime bank customer who walked away after the teller gave them a hard time.

So much so they compared it to larger-than-life media.

Some were so moved by the story it increased their own anxiety.

She’s certainly not getting college credit out of this one.