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Uh, yeah. The emphasis on unpaid internships have essentially just resulted in not paying people to do actual jobs. Internships are legally mandated to resemble apprenticeships, being aimed at educating and training the intern, not merely benefiting the employer. If your interns are essentially just doing work like anyone else on the job, they must be paid. Unpaid internships are one more reason why my generation is poorer than our parents. We're expected to work for free for years before earning any money, all while accumulating debt, and to be grateful for the opportunity.
The white house should definitely be paying its employees, rather than exploiting this trend for unpaid labor.
Obama's White House Internships are comparable to indentured servitude or picking cotton during the first half of the 19th Century.
Yes, but having on your resume that you did an internship at the White House might carry more weight than if you were an intern at a small company in the Midwest. Truth be known, you'd probably learn more business sense at that small company, but that's a different subject! :lamo:
Good evening, Apacherat. :2wave:
Obama's White House Internships are comparable to indentured servitude or picking cotton during the first half of the 19th Century.
Hi Polgara :2wave:
There are many of the nation's top lawyers who interned for Supreme Court Justices and some of the top law firms in the country. Fox News has a summer internship every summer for those who want to get into the business. I think just about every radio station has an internship program. So I have no problem with internship programs that are designed for high school and college students. It's part of their education.
Being an intern at the White House may look good on one's resume but having on your resume that you interned for the Obama White House could keep you in the unemployment line for life. The Obama White House is the most incompetent administration in America's history. All are second rate, very few had any experience in the private sector and probably couldn't hold down a real job in the private sector.
If your goal in life is working at your local welfare office, then being an intern at the Obama White House might look good on your resume.
Now that you completed that highly qualified sentence, now complete this one...
"While Bush White House Internships are comparable to..."
Seems to me everyone who worked or interned at the Bush White House are doing very well in the private sector.
I doubt that will be true with those working in Obama's White House. The vast majority will go back living off the tax payers. There are still a whole lot of ACORN splinter groups out there.
White House Under Pressure to Pay Its Interns
White House Under Pressure to Pay Its Interns - Yahoo! Finance
They should stop taking such jobs then. However, the compelling argument is that, being unpaid full time labor, only those from wealthy backgrounds can realistically access those career starters. Making them paid would give others a chance.
Just as I thought. You'd opt for HUGE dodge instead... You may now continue with your referring the black president's interns as slaves. Stay classy!eace
Good. It's about damned time. Let the White House set the example. Unpaid internships exploit students under the guise of "Hey!!! It's the best experience money can't buy." Unpaid internships favor the wealthy, hold interns hostage with the hope-and-prayer they'll get a job out of it, and are basically unpaid staff for those companies/governmental agencies for which they slave.
Time to outlaw 'em.
You don't necessary have to be from a wealthy family but it sure helps getting an allowance from Mom and Pop while making coffee, sharpening pencils and emptying out the waste bucket.
I'm curious if those interns are of color ?
You are aware that the Obama White House staff are the highest paid of any other administration in history even though they are the least productive and incompetent than any other administration.
If the Obama White House staff were to be paid by incentive type of wages or salary, they would make more money being on welfare.
That's not what they do. They're unpaid labor. The same people that will argue for unpaid internships will clamor for $15/hour for a completely inexperienced kid who's probably still picking his nose at McDonald's.
Why can't unpaid interns give White House tours?
Those tour guides are probably unionized.
Wtf does any of that unsourced BS have to do with anything being discussed in this thread or this forum whatsoever? Other than you wanting to post how much you hate Obama I mean?
Were there any intern when Bush was in office ....and were they paid?
I don't understand ...is Obama the first President not to pay interns?
Can anybody help me understand this?
Every time I took it it was done by a female Secret Service agent I think.
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