3 mo. ago • 93%

Candidate for this position must love irony

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I honestly don’t see what’s ironic about it. It’s obviously a non-profit, which usually operate with volunteers and interns. At least they’re being honest about the internship being unpaid in the title rather than leading people on.

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- hilarious. at this point the only kids who could take this "job" are the well-off privileged born-with-a-foot-in-the-door connected kids, thus pushing all the others away into "paid" slavery working a shitty mcjob in the hopes that one day they'll be able to get some kind of experience doing what they want. if they weren't working 60 hours a week at 2 jobs...
  
  but yea, kudos to this charity for announcing they're not paying you shit to work for them
  
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  Unhinged hate for a charity you know nothing about other than the fact that they're looking for helps seems completely normal
  
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  So nobody should ever volunteer for anything? How does a nonprofit offering an unpaid internship force people to take another job? How is it any different from that listing just not being there? When you're looking for a job you already have to filter out the myriad of jobs that don't work for you.
  
  Not to mention, it's a charity for human rights. I'm sure they'd be the first ones to tell you not to take the position if you can't afford to volunteer.
  
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You didn't really just compared voluntary charity work with enforced slavery? I mean … honestly!

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- You can believe anything you want to. We're living in a post-reality timeline.
  
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  Did I deny that?
  
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  I remember being younger and thinking post-modernism was the worst, and what ever comes to replave it must be better...
  
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Idk, I don't think an unpaid internship can be considered slavery since you can voluntarily sign up for and quit it at any time.

Prison labor OTOH....

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A intern is not a slave like a university team member isn’t an athlete.

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- College athletes are athletes.
  
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  Exactly. Pretty sure that's what they were saying.
  
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A lot of people reacting here with a "But they're a Charity, so they most be good people" clearly are unfamiliar with the problems of Unpaid Internships in London and the scammy nature of so many UK-based Charities nowadays, especially the kind that's based in London, has junior "Personal Assistant" positions and whose "charitable objective" is the same as their name, a "painfully obvious bad thing", in a part of the "good will market" that's not yet saturated (such as for example the fight against hunger would be) and for a problem so broad that them having no measurable impact is justifiable and which is a problem that will never be totally solved - the entire thing reeks of a "business" set up by a Politician or MBA to pay themselves vast fortunes as CxO by preying on the good will of well intentioned people.

I lived for over a decade in London and that whole advert rings several alarm bells in my mind.

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