TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoJust saw an unpaid internship that requires two years experiencemessage-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareJust saw an unpaid internship that requires two years experienceTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarequeermunist she/herlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-21 year agotbh that’s probably bullshit applicant screening and they’ll accept anyone that applies Or it’s some kind of scam that I can’t imagine the details of?
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 year agoAll unpaid internships are scams.
minus-squareNioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoIm doing an internship right now I dont get paid by the company But i still get my federal education student grant every month (all students get this, in Denmark throughout all of their education) And my internship is only 2 months I would rather get paid of course. But i consider it to be school. Im learning a lot and its super stress free, free lunch etc
minus-squareAmaltheamannenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoStill terrible. As a software engineering student in Sweden I did 3 summer internships and all were paid.
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agothe scam is they want you to do work but won’t pay you. I don’t know what the experience thing is about
tbh that’s probably bullshit applicant screening and they’ll accept anyone that applies
Or it’s some kind of scam that I can’t imagine the details of?
All unpaid internships are scams.
Im doing an internship right now
I dont get paid by the company
But i still get my federal education student grant every month (all students get this, in Denmark throughout all of their education)
And my internship is only 2 months
I would rather get paid of course. But i consider it to be school. Im learning a lot and its super stress free, free lunch etc
Still terrible. As a software engineering student in Sweden I did 3 summer internships and all were paid.
its unpaid labor
the scam is they want you to do work but won’t pay you. I don’t know what the experience thing is about