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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:32 PM Original message |
Young, unpaid and angry: interns go online to campaign for a wage |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good for them |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. And the slimy businesscreeps seem to collude |
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Mr Deltoid (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. Slave labor is the new capitalism |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. All unpaid/barely paid internships need to be boycotted. |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. this is norm in usa too - getting college kids from both here and abroad to work for nothing or litt |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. And soon enough too many of them will learn |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Unpaid internships were originally a means of weeding out people who actually needed the money |
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Lucky Luciano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 09:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Nowadays Wall St internships are well paid actually. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. There are still plenty of unpaid ones, and they tend to weed out anyone |
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Lucky Luciano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. false re the wealthy families. Not sure about unpaid..but plenty of people I know made $4-8K/mo. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 10:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Maybe not on Wall Street, but there are still are unpaid internships |
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IndyPragmatist (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. A real internship gets you college credit |
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exboyfil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 04:29 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Student teaching works that way |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Slave labor. *sad* n/t |
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