Interns Get Fired En Masse After Protesting Dress Code at Work

Please tell us about your vast business experience that has allowed you to come to this conclusion? Have you ever had to make a sale for your corporation? Have you ever worked with clients of your corporation?

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I do agree that this is a fictional tale. It's a cautionary urban legend now.....

 

An unpaid internship is not indentured servitude by far. You have no understanding of what the concept of indentured servitude means. An unpaid internship is totally voluntary, and the intern can quit whenever they want. An indentured servant has to work at a job until he/she has worked off a debt.

 

I admit my rhetoric and fully understand the meaning of indentured servitude. However, unpaid internships are predatory and should be entirely illegal.

 

No they shouldn't be illegal. Internships are a voluntary arrangement and nobody's property is being violated. No victim, no crime.

 

Internship is slavery.

 

Hmm. That doesn't seem to make sense. Would you please provide the definition of slavery you are using?

 

In college you pay to learn, often tens of thousands or more.
In internship the interns are often paid to learn.
Perhaps you should start a movement to end it so never again will there be another Monica Lewinski.

 

Is that a "heads up"?

 

Course not. Corporate offices... Haha..Billion dollar corporate offices...
Lol. Sure. I'm not even going to bother describing the absurdity. Anyone who buys that deserves to be made a fool.

 

Could you post a few links for architecture jobs requiring licensure from that entity as a qualification for employment?

 

How vague. How expected.
What are your favorite things about Orlando?

 

You might want to re-think that last sentence. Forbes says there's quite a few billion-dollar businesses out there. And he said his business was close to making a billion, not that his corporate office was worth a billion. Your wording was a bit unclear. In any event:

 

I didn't question billion dollar businesses. Their corporate offices aren't bringing on uneducated interns.

 

Vague? Are you off your meds again?

I'm not a big fan of Orlando itself. I like the Kissimmee/Lake Buena Vista area--specifically the Celebration area and the Disney parks. Regardless, you haven't been in enough of the state to judge. I've been through pretty much the whole state, and I've lived here through hurricanes--I have the gas cans/generator in my garage to prove it.

 

I can't believe you are still arguing with me about this, when you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Cannon-Mo...VJiRBwvwTrVd3th6H3QQ5vLYfwlbao_2pWVrd1M7vhtrA

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Peterman-...VKu3W6VnDINMsDCfcncBWsszi59BRKoQ6yySCm23vVhvg

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/1--773--p...icensed-73a3dcea3d2dfdf4?q=Licensed+Architect

And, in case that didn't convince you of how wrong you are, here are some links for intern jobs, meaning people that hold the required degree, but have not yet completed their internship or taken the 7 part test (with less than 50% pass rates each) for their license.

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Wright-&-...Dv8Ni0ZunCvAXvRgB_NLmcIvJCghurg250ge7APTlliEA

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Archatas,...Duv045f5KRZSdidxL2g0AgomISAp5HzG3P31KtwwG4q6A

http://jobcenter.aiadc.com/jobs/8310637/intern-architect-project-architect

 

In LA myself. No not the one in California the one where the FloraBama is. Travel the panhandle still. Have been to beaches all over Florida. Also the east coast. Was in N. Carolina recently on business and they took us to Myrtle Beach bragging on it. I didn't burst their bubble but not even close to the north gulf beaches nor is their seafood any where close to what comes out of the north gulf waters.

 

I live less than 10 miles from the Flora-Bama--on the Florida side. That's what I think whenever I see any other beaches (I will grant that I haven't been to Hawaii).

 

Been there and done that twice. The beaches are beautiful as far as all the surrounding scenary and plant life. The sand is no where near like the gulf beaches. I much prefer the Virgin Islands to Hawaii.

 

If I remember correctly, in a thread some time ago, you mentioned you were an architect. ??

Anyways, internships are part of any trade, e.g., certifications for plumbers, electricians and the like. A number of college students do it, and I myself did the co-op education, that was paid low and without benefits for credits and experience. This is an open and shut issue.

 

It's pretty pathetic how "right-wingers" think that labor is at the mercy of capitalists and should just be "slaves" and "earn their stripes and just take it"...

-Abraham Lincoln

I guess Lincoln would be fired by these Republicans.

 

The people commenting here have it entirely backwards. The kids aren't the ones obsessed with footwear, the COMPANY is - the kids were simply drawing attention to the stupidity of it. What sort of nutjob organisation thinks leather shoes are more important than performance?

And yeah, who in their right mind would want to work for an organisation which cares more about your shoes than your performance? I'm glad those kids got turfed. They'll be much better off working for people who actually hire them for their talents and hard work, not what they have on their feet.

 

I'm not sure what world you guys exist in, but it appears to be limited to either a) low level jobs, b) sales, or c) law and banking. These are the only areas I can think of where modern organisations would have anything like an actual 'dress code'. Outside of these, I would submit that those companies who still think shoe type factors into success are dinosaurs, and won't be the companies taking us into the next century.

I've worked in large corporate offices where the guy at the top was the only person who wore a suit (and then, only by choice). In the same organisation, the head of IT was a fully realised Goth, and dressed the part every day. Waist length black dreadlocks (tied back, the better to peer into computer innards), black jeans, black t-shirt, black military boots, and a floor length black cloak. I kid you not. He had neck and hand tattoos, also. The guy was a computer genius, and a brilliant manager. They were lucky to have him and they knew it.

The company next door probably hired an inferior IT manager, but at least he'd have leather shoes.

 

We don't know what kind of business the kids were interning for, for all we know it was a funeral home where it would be inappropriate to walk around with waist length dreadlocks and a floor length black cloak. But what does any of that have to do with accepting the terms of an internship and then trying at least two times to change them?

 

Yeah, vague.
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It's inside, in neon, in the dark. Yeah, you're vague. No specifics. Never expected any from you.

 

This license...What can those with and without it do?