[LRUG] An Intern Saidfmer...

[Viktor Trón]

dude why don't you just buy my brilliance you dont need to wait for an
intern

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> We've had interns in the past albeit not programmers but we've always
> managed to work something out maintaining a good relationship with them. In
> fact, one of our Curators first joined us as an intern.
>
> We're not really looking for a one of slave but for a brilliant person who
> can join us in our long term journey to create something awesome and kick
> ass.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abdel
>
> On 10 March 2011 16:33, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I hope that if you expect your intern to work specific hours, complete
>> specific pieces of work, or do any work at all that would otherwise be
>> done by a paid employee, that you'll be paying (at least!) the minimum
>> wage. To do otherwise is actually illegal[1], and in my opinion at
>> least, hugely exploitatitive and unethical. Let's not have software
>> development go the way of PR, politics and the media in expecting
>> people to work for free (and therefore restricting employment
>> opportunities to those with independent means to do so).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> REFERENCES
>> ----------------------
>> [1] http://internsanonymous.co.uk/claim/
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey Guys,
>> > I hope posting this here is okay.
>> > Some of you might know about Said.fm, http://said.fm/ our wee start up
>> for
>> > building audio speech recommendations on the web + rewarding the
>> talented
>> > peeps who make the amazing content we consume.
>> > The time has now come for us to get growing and as we're completely
>> > bootstrapped we're looking for an Intern who's a hacker & experimenter
>> at
>> > heart to join our team.
>> > You'll be joining us in solving some very exciting & heavy lifting
>> problems!
>> > Here's the link to the full spec: http://bit.ly/hsFd6V
>> > Feel free to get in touch with me directly or email Aisha at
>> aisha at said.fm
>> > Abdel
>> > ----
>> > Technical Co-Founder @ Said.fm
>> > start listening @ http://said.fm/ | http://blog.said.fm
>> > twitter: @abdels, @saidfm | skype: abdel.a.saleh
>> > ----
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