But they’ll happily pay tens of thousands of dollars to take four years of college courses equivalent to a free video on YouTube… Work experience is worth so much more than college credits. Wouldn’t a company giving you free work experience be a better deal than paying for a degree? Junior employees are completely useless anyways. The company puts in more work training juniors and receives no useful contributions back
Work is work, should be paid. Now go fuck yourself with your corporate boot licking.
Well, depends on the internship. In some you get a masterclass every day from people that spend their very expensive time teaching you. In some places the intern is actually doing menial work because there's nothing else to do without training. That must be paid, or even better, not exist because learning is an expectation of any internship. Anyway if it was a company I'd pay the interns, not because they are doing some work but because I don't think unpaid internships are a good way to start a relationship.
Junior employees don’t really “work”. They often cause even more problems and just take time away from the other employees who need to train them. A new grad position is basically paid on the job training
Because we have minimum wage laws. Otherwise Disney can make a bunch of college kids to work for free as “interns” every summer at the parks.
Good luck getting those kids without pay at Disney.
Would you work for free?
There are no rules actually. You are the boss to decide if it’s worth it or not.
are you assuming that every intern can afford to work without pay?
They were somehow able to afford not working for four years, while paying $60,000 in tuition for a degree. Why can’t they work one year for free to gain experience?
you’re now assuming that every intern can afford to pay for school. scholarships and other forms of financial aid exist.
No one trained me, I just got thrown in to the deep end lol
When you go to school, there is structure. There are guarantees about what will be covered and taught in those 4+ years. You are investing your time and money, but you know what you will be getting out of it. With unpaid internship, you cannot be sure what you are getting. As an intern, you are investing time with a pretty much a hit or miss of a return.
yeah that's called slavery
POC here: Unpaid internships favor those from the upper class who don’t need to earn money for tuition over the summer. Having unpaid internships perpetuates inequality because wealthy kids get great work experiences while students who need to contribute to their tuition need to take less prestigious PAID work such as retail or work study jobs on campus in the cafeteria, etc. When I was in college, an unpaid internship was out of the question financially for me.
In addition to being unpaid, they often require you to earn college credit for it, which means you are paying tuition to work for free…. It can be done so that you aren’t paying extra tuition (if already registered for full course load that term - no additional cost), but not everyone can dedicate 20+ hrs to working for free during the week while carrying a full course load.
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Supply and demand. If there are places willing to pay then why do it for free?
I’m not sure that’s the case right now. So many entitled new grads expecting huge salaries and then complaining that nobody is hiring. They should take anything they can get for the experience, even if it doesn’t pay
And make the owners rich?