Right - but in the context of this list, where there are lots of nonprofit folks, your initial statement was incredibly unclear.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Greg Norcie <g...@norcie.com> wrote: > 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 (g...@norcie.com) > 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 <g...@norcie.com > > <mailto:g...@norcie.com>> wrote: > > > > Unpaid internships are illegal actually. Unless receiving course > credit > > from a university - then they're just morally unsound :) > > > > -- > > Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com <mailto:g...@norcie.com>) > > 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, > > ham...@graphscience.com <mailto:ham...@graphscience.com> > > > > > >> -- > > >> 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 > -- 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*
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