Internships-for-sale spark the outrage of Judith Timson in the Globe and Mail.
I’m no fan of unpaid internships. Not only do they penalize the less-affluent kids who can’t afford to work for free, but they are exploitive. Apparently some kids even consider taking out loans to cover the cost of working for free. This is madness. And shame on companies who encourage this to happen.
Madness and shame are words that should appear more often in articles about unfair internships.
Most said at first that buying an internship for their kid was troubling, to say the least. (I mean where does it end? Buying them a middle manager’s job at IBM when they’re 40?)
Exactly: where does it end? Isn’t the middle manager also learning something and getting a leg up for a senior management position?
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