By Goldo - 22/06/2009 20:06 - United States

Today, my boss hired a feng shui consultant for our small office space. I am the only full-time employee besides the owners, and I work as an unpaid intern. My company would rather pay someone to rearrange my desk than pay me to work at it. FML
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You gotta worry about feng shui. It's all this negative chi. It's everywhere.

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that sucks. Im a little confused how you can be full time yet an unpaid intern... but plexico- at least we're trying to get stuff on our resume rather than fliping burgers, asking if you'd like to make that a large size, and screwing everybody's order up, like what you must be doing. btw, when I was an unpaid intern I was not (and still am not) a liberal arts major. Hell I'm not even liberal- I'm very conservative. (and yes I do know they're not related)

turtlellama 0

How are you an intern, yet the only full-time employee? Maybe it's just my ignorance but, how is that even possible? FYL, I guess.

YDI, but by following in the same trap a lot of us do. I'm guessing this is some kind of art studio, either graphic, audio, video, etc. The company sounds like a joke, and you're the sucker for working for it. Stories like this remind me why I refused to work for free after I got out of college. You'll probably get "valuable" experience in an already overcrowded field (after all, they got you to work for free, right?) where your chances of finding a job have solely to do with either making one for yourself and striking out on your own (a good idea if your industry is slightly less moribund than say, the music industry) or by the contacts you make. Unless you can substantially contradict the picture I'm painting, quit tomorrow and figure something else out.

internships usually dont come from salary.what they hire someone else to do for the company is a service and WILL require payment in return.its how the world works.once you get past the internship and possibly accepted as a company employee or you begin your career their(or wherever your credentials allow)then you will be paid salary.

lingfeng 0

I have never had an unpaid internship. Ever. Even in high school.

Ummm...hmm a tough one...QUIT some people...

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