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discocrisco01

(1,666 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:17 PM Feb 2012

I Do Not Believe That Unpaid Internships Are In Embrassment

Imagined if you were spent significant in prison, got a DUI, had a bad employment records, and than subsequently decided to get a new career. How you are get a job without good references?

The key thing for people in the subject cases is that unpaid internship goes a long way to land your next job. You are not interested in the money. You interested in the reference and

Imagine if you had a major drinking problem, got a DUI, and had significant problems with a prior employer. Wouldn't you rather to get an unpaid internship to get a good reference and show that your rehabilitation goes fine.

These are people where unpaid internships for the best things. It is not good for people who have no criminal background or no prior issues with employers. Paid internships should be given in most cases, except where an unpaid internship is designed for rehabilitation for a major drug and alcohol program and people with prior felonies especially serious felonies such as robbery, drug-dealing, sexual abuse, or first/second degree murder (had they served at least 25-30 years in prison, live a spiritual lifestyle, and do not poet a threat to public safety).

I have a DUI and prior issues with last employer so I need unpaid internship, but most college students do not deserve this and so there should be a limitation on the use of unpaid internships unless it is the case that I describe above.

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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. In high-powered NYC and DC, internships and poorly paid entry-level jobs serve as a filter
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:19 PM
Feb 2012

to make sure that only people whose Mumsy and Daddy can co-sign for the apartment get their feet in the door. So guess who ends up with all the higher-level jobs in ten years?

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
2. Internships which generally result in productive employment are okay.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:19 PM
Feb 2012

Internship as a dependable source of cheap labor isn't.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
3. So, wait. Unpaid internships only for people with DUIs?
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:20 PM
Feb 2012

How about everyone gets paid for the work they do, instead of fighting over crumbs?

 

MadHound

(34,179 posts)
5. College students don't deserve this?
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 04:44 PM
Feb 2012

Excuse me, but anybody who is starting out in the work world, be they high school students or college students, needs references, especially in the field they are studying. Not only are the references necessary for college students, but so is the work experience.

Yet, while wanting to limit unpaid internships for college students, you want to open it up for people who have been arrested and convicted for a DUI? Excuse me, but it was your choice to drink and drive. You screwed up, you went behind the wheel, endangering others, while you were drunk. Why should somebody who made such a stupid choice get preferential treatment over those who are playing by the rules, who haven't endangered others, who didn't choose to be stupid.

Sorry, but you make a stupid choice, you have to face the consequences. Deal with it.

Nikia

(11,411 posts)
8. My interpretation of his point was that people convicted of crimes need a chance to prove themselves
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 06:46 PM
Feb 2012

So that they don't become unemployable for life. Regardless of the crime someone committed, being unemployable for life shouldn't be part of the punishment.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
7. Unpaid Internships=slavery w/o the beatings
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 05:14 PM
Feb 2012

if it isnt stopped it will become the next new thing in hiring. but what do you have against poets?
(had they served at least 25-30 years in prison, live a spiritual lifestyle, and do not "poet" a threat to public safety).

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