[LRUG] Juniors

Tim Cowlishaw tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk
Wed May 21 07:31:12 PDT 2014


On 21 May 2014 15:27, Sam Livingston-Gray <geeksam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe things are different across the pond where you actually have a
> reasonable set of public services, but over here in the States, unpaid
> internships strike me as a way of limiting opportunities to those who
> already have the means to go without income for an extended period.
>

Absolutely - and this is just as true in the UK, in my opinion. If someone
is working for you, you pay them. Also I'm not sure that offering to broker
this sort of exploitation for free really counts as "Kindness", to be quite
frank.

Cheers,

Tim
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