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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't unpaid internships more or less illegal now?

You want free labor to do grunt work, you get what you pay for.[/quote]

No they are not "illegal."  :roll: For Pete's sake people, internships allow college students to gain professional experience so that they can actually have a leg up on getting a paid job when they graduate.  They may be unpaid financially but the interns are certainly gaining something valuable for their future - if you are constructing the internship in a useful way.  [/quote]

uh...no.  Unpaid internships allow people who are generally supported by their parents, who can afford to still support them, get absolutely no useful experience other than the reality hitting them that many people they will work with and/or for are assholes.

I never did an unpaid internship.  I have a huge problem with how so many people feel they HAVE to do them.  Lower income students can't afford to have them so they have to actually work for a job that pays them, often not in their ideal field, in order to have money for school.  Then they get punished later for not having experience in said field because they couldn't afford unpaid internships.

It's ridiculous.

Slave labor it's not, but thinking it's totally fine to not pay someone - anyone - for work done is ignorant of reality.[/quote]

Well, then you should tell the DOJ.  Every intern I've ever worked with has cost me hours of my own professional time in training them in valuable skills.  They most certainly ARE NOT doing the work of paid staff. Many of them were in DC with student organizations that paid for their housing and meals, and a handful I can recall most certainly did not come from rich families.  They worked hard, I was happy to train them and provide a reference down the line.  I've never been threatened with a lawsuit because these kids had good heads on their shoulders instead of ones firmly planted up their ass like yours. I'm pretty sure DOJ would agree with me.  [/quote]

As long as your internships meet the DOJ criteria, sure.[/quote]

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