So... I was looking through my e-mail and found this tweet...

I was just scrolling through my e-mail and this tweet alert popped up. It mentioned something about something like this should be illegal and I clicked it... (WARNING: MIGHT CONTAIN SOME SWEARING/MATURE CONTENT IN COMMENTS!!! DIDN'T FIND ANY IN MY QUICK SCAN, THOUGH...)

This is what I found:



Any volunteers?

 

Sadly enough, from what I can discern from the comments...

It is actually a true ad.

 

That's what a lot of people are saying in the comments... I know one thing:

I won't complain about my job anymore.

 

Not for the company but this is what I'm doing to get my current degree lol I hate it.

 

That is kinda ridiculous. Pay back their "investment" in you? They don't even pay you and expect 40 hour weeks? Also they want people who already have degrees? I wonder how many people actually go for things like this.

 

Sometimes you don't really have a choice if the place you're applying to requires you to have more experience in your area. For my major (psychology) I had to do 350 internship hours and it took months before I was able to find a position that actually paid. It's pretty common in the US too, which is just plain nuts.

 

Reasons I'm very very glad my degree doesn't require an internship.

 

>interns don´t get paid

What in the ****.

Is this company full of idiots? You can´t walk into a building, do what you´re good at while being put under a **** ton of stress (on purpose), and then have them say "oh and interns dont get paid :)"

**** this tweet. **** it.

 

****, let me put in my two weeks here right now

 

Behind those smilies is a most sinister grin....

 

Are you guys new to unpaid internships?

 

Lord, have mercy. @~@ 350 hours? Gees.

I'm planning to reach a master's in Family/Marriage Therapy with a specialization and certification in Play Therapy. But to get there, planning to get a bachelor's in General Psychology...

350 hours though... Guess that's better than the 24 hours you have to do in child care here in Texas. >~<

 

I'm suddenly really glad I managed to get a paid internship and a job not long after leaving university. Especially considering that in order to do the internship I had to relocate and rent a room for its duration, it would have been infeasible for me to do it unpaid.

 

I have heard of those, and have seen some internships that offer pay.

But these guys expect you to go through hell while helping them, and you won´t even get paid a dime.

That, my friend, is bullshit.

 

What's really gross is that they know how desperate people are for work, and yet offer this crap in the form of a handout to score free labor.

I bet no one even gets hired in these programs, but they make it sound like "you didn't make the cut".

#weriot