[DannyTN]

I think unpaid internships are exploitation.

If you receive work, you should pay at least minimum wage for it.

[Sacajaweau]

If you’re not truly accomplishing anything, you should get paid because?? What they don’t teach in school, is how companies function. There’s a curve...

[Milton Miteybad]

I think unpaid internships are exploitation.

If you receive work, you should pay at least minimum wage for it.


Unfortunately, few new employees are actually worth minimum wage, at least not on Day One. Many will require months of OJT to be able to manifest any kind of return to an employer. Some candidates may not require that long, and others will never show any potential for return, but an internship is a good way to find out in either case.

As it happens, most interns are aware that they are of extremely limited value to an employer. That's why they volunteer on an unpaid basis...they know they need to learn how the business works, and an unpaid internship reduces the risk for the employer while offering the experience the intern so desperately needs. If the intern collects no salary for the internship, at least the employer knows that in the short run, he's not having to pay out of pocket for the privilege of training someone who may become his competitor at some future point.

Unpaid internships are 100% voluntary agreements that serve a very useful purpose. If they did not exist, someone would have to invent them, and the person who would come up with the idea would be the intern himself.

[Frantzie]

The majority of young folks voted for Hope & Change. The parents who allow their kids to go to college or get degrees in useless subjects should go to jail. It is child abuse.