Unpaid internships where you are not receiving college credit are generally illegal, unless the business is "training" you and not receiving an economic benefit. This is not generally true for a vast majority of unpaid internships.
-- Greg Norcie ([email protected]) GPG key: 0x1B873635 On 2/22/13 2:20 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: > Unpaid internships are not universally illegal, and how does it help > anyone to spread untruths like that? > > I'm not saying I'm in favor of them (I'm not), but a quick Google search > shows you're wrong in most US states. > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Greg Norcie <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Unpaid internships are illegal actually. Unless receiving course credit > from a university - then they're just morally unsound :) > > -- > Greg Norcie ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) > GPG key: 0x1B873635 > > On 2/22/13 10:16 AM, Q. Parker wrote: > > A list enumerating some items which make this post objectionable: > > > > 1) Unpaid internships are wrong on a number of levels. > > > > 2) This is data-mining/graph analysis for spam. > > > > 3) "Quirky" should be a qualification for employment only for > clinical trials. > > > > 4) The only thing this work will liberate is the will to live from > fresh-faced recent grads. > > > > All in all, I'd rather bag groceries than work for a company that > posts an ad like this > > (and here, no less). > > > > Quirkily, > > Q. > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:43:38PM -0800, Hamdan Azhar wrote: > >> Please forward widely! > >> > >> --- > >> INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE AT LEADING SILICON VALLEY STARTUP > >> > >> GraphScience - a Palo Alto based venture-backed startup focusing on > >> predictive behavioral analytics in social networks - is offering > >> internships for college students and recent graduates. Interns > will play a > >> valuable role in building the leading social advertising platform on > >> Facebook. > >> > >> Our clients are major Fortune 500 retailers and we're looking for > quirky, > >> creative, self-motivated individuals who would thrive in a fast-paced > >> environment. Internships are unpaid and last for at least 3 months. > >> > >> Interested? Email us your resume, your favorite ice cream flavor, > and the > >> name of the last book you read. > >> > >> CONTACT: Hamdan Azhar, Lead Data Scientist, > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > -- > US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 > site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>*| > *twitter: @jilliancyork* * > > "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want > the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - /Vaclav Havel/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
