• nnullzz@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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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      5 months ago

      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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        5 months ago

        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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    5 months ago

    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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    5 months ago

    You didn’t really just compared voluntary charity work with enforced slavery? I mean … honestly!

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    5 months ago

    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.