Getting Paid

I decided to take time to develop myself. So i applied for an internship at a publishing house. Naturally i went there with high hopes and put my "oyinboness" on. As opposed to what you are thinking right now, i did not go in my Sunday best. I just looked corporate enough. it's an internship after all. I got there and
learnt that even security men start 'feeling' in such environment. I waited for about an hour before i was allowed into the office for an interview. I was told to submit my CV and wait for a while. this while went on for three hours. At this point, i was so hungry that when one of the visitors that was in the waiting room with me offered me gala, it took the grace of God to smile and say "No, thank you." i did hate her at that moment though, she had come prepared and I hadn't. When i got tired of sitting, i went to the receptionist to ask her what to do. She called the admin. department and they told her to tell me to come only to be told to come back the next day. Obviously, all this was just to waste my time because after the interview the next day, i got 'employed'. Well point to note is that all through the interview and introduction to my department, the company representative kept reminding me that they would not pay me.
I started the job and realized that it wasn't as easy as i thought. Not because I'm lazy but because of how much i had to spend on the job, asides the transport fare from my house to the office and back, i was being sent to places on my tab. like seriously! Once when i complained to a fellow intern about how unjust the system was, she told me not to worry, that we would get a small change at the end of the month. That the company gave interns #5,000. I was angry at that how little the amount was, but i compensated myself that it would do for transport for a week.

Fast forward to end of the month and one of the self important bosses called me loudly, in the presence of other staffs "Miss Yarn! Go to accounts. Go and get what is there for you." Yeye showoff! My excitement mounted as i walked to account. I slowed my steps as i did not want other interns to think that 5,000 was a big deal to me. As i walked slowly to accounts, i gave myself a pat on the back and promised to buy myself something afford-ably nice, right after i paid my tithe. I got to accounts dpt and met other interns on a queue. I joined them and we discussed how little the money we were being paid was and how irrelevant it was. Although none of us decided to forgo it despite how it did not matter I waited till it was my turn and went in to meet the saucy woman who asked for my name and checked on the list. She handed my money to me and i saw that it was #2,500 she handed to me. I forgot  about #5,000 being "small" money and I protested. It was my money after all. She showed me the list of names and the amount printed clearly in front of my names. She looked at me like i was a pest and asked "Sheybi you have not spent up to a month?"I pretended it was a rhetoric and i walked out of the room to meet other interns who laughed when I told them what had happened and I of course had to laugh along. I had been in the company for three full weeks and i got paid in

half. How does that even work? And so till date, whenever I am asked by anyone if i get paid, i simply say no. Abi how am i supposed to tell anyone i am paid #2,500?!