by Esteban »
12 Apr 2013 14:48
Snowball Esteban Every one complaining about this clearly doesn't understand business in today's world. There'll will be a long list of applicants, because it is a fantastic career opportunity.
Sadly, we complain because we DO.
It's immoral.
It's frankly irrelevant that people are queuing up. They are stitched up.
Nobody asks that this multi-million pound business pays "apprentices" £100K p a
but a moral business would be a meaningful wage and reasonable expenses
DESPITE THE FACT it could get away with paying less.
Second, these unpaid, no-expensed workers keep another worker, a father, a mother out of work
CLASSIC Tory distortion of the marketplace
Everybody thinks the world owes them a living. Sometimes, you have to go out and suffer some hardships for a while, in order to look at the long term employment prospects.
I know some people who have spent nearly three years working as an unpaid intern, just to get a chance to work in the industry they want to be in for their entire career.
And if they work hard, they'll eventually make back what they missed out on for those years and some. This is quite common practice in the US.
Some people need to get over themselves.
Hardship? ZERO wages for a year and you also have to PAY to travel to games, stop away etc.
That isn't the equivalent of the low-paid apprentice, that's making these jobs only
available to the children of the rich - yet more class-biased rape of the workforce
Firstly, don't presume to know anything about my personal political views.
Secondly, I didn't say I agreed with it, but it is a fact that some people will put up with that in order to get on in life. It happens everywhere. You make a choice to follow a career path and sometimes, it requires you to put up with things that the rest of us wouldn't even dream about doing. But that doesn't mean that certain people won't suffer it.
Strap's excellent post highlights it. His sons made a decision to get into sports science within football, which requires a level of knowledge and experience that can only be gained by doing the job. If the only jobs out there are unpaid, then that's just what they'll have to do. Fortunately for them, Strap made the decision to support them. They are privileged, because many other people just won't have the means to do take an unpaid internship. Fair play to Strap for supporting his kids and, I would imagine, sacrificing something in order to do so.
Is it right that people have to do that? No, probably not. But get off your high horse and face facts. Internships, unpaid and not expensed, are a necessity if you want to follow some career paths. It's a choice made by an individual and there is no exploitation in that.
I'll make it clear, I do not support the notion of unpaid internships, but I'm certainly not going complain that the club are doing it, because it is common place.