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Where our politicians would rather see you pay out of your pocket to go back to school rather than get valuable on the job experience. huh.?. from what I have
by timmaah 17y ago
Where our politicians would rather see you pay out of your pocket to go back to school rather than get valuable on the job experience.
huh.?. from what I have seen, politics almost runs on interns. Every politician and political organisation has unpaid interns doing real work. The whitehouse has hundreds..
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/Internships/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/Internships/
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoIs The Whitehouse a for profit privately owned business (eg via stock).
- timmaah 17y agoI understand that.. but the fact that the white house and politicians he rails against have interns show that they think it is a positive experience. They also know a for-profit business should be paying their workers. (Not to say I agree one way or the other. It is a fine line between experience and exploitation)
- cwan 17y agore: "It is a fine line between experience and exploitation" - shouldn't the person getting the experience/being exploited be the arbiter of that rather than some random bureaucrat?
- timmaah 17y agoIn a perfect world yes.. but in the real world that is the reason there are labor unions. If you complete a 6 month internship we will give you a job. And keep stringing the person along.. etc.. I think a good compromise would limit an internship to 3 months, afterwards you have to pay. And the employee has to be in a college or degree program or 2 years out of one. And somehow limit it so Burger King can't make you work 3 months for free.
- cwan 17y agoIn the real world, labor unions have largely outlived their usefulness which is why firms in industries where they dominate find themselves either dying or bankrupt and why there has been a steady decline in membership. I'll bite though, how is it (in an imperfect or perfect world) that these unpaid interns are unable to be the arbiters of whether or not an unpaid internship "has value" to them?
- JimmyL 17y agoCongress and the White House have always been exempt from most workplace and labour regulations - for example, you can't file an OSHA complaint if you work in a Senator's office.
- apotheon 17y agoGovernment wants free labor, but doesn't want people to get internships in the private sector. This is hypocrisy -- not a defense of government.