A Boring Dystopia

You first, asshole.

“Squarespace Exec Wants Slave Labor”

Great! Let's up your income tax rate to 90% and add a 1% per annum wealth tax over 25mil in assets, so all tertiary education can be free and people can earn a universal basic income, while they get settled into a career path they love.

Guillotine.

Reminder that unpaid internships are almost always illegal in the USA. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/71-flsa-internships

She was able to work, for free, in her freshman summer, while going through for a finance degree. So many questions:

Where did the money come from? Who paid her tuition?

Why not go through for Co-op, where you obtain a job as part of schooling? Or why did she have to hunt for internships? Even my wife, who had unpaid internships and family to back her up during the same time, had help from the school to find it. How jank is U of Texas?

Why, pray tell, is a finance degree holder the CMO?

I mean, I'm happy for her, but how useful is her recommendations? If you don't have a family who can pay your tuition and summer living costs, this is useless.

And ignoring how people need money in order to have shelter and food, what does she think happe s if everyone starts doing this? Should I be calling up everyone at SquareSpace and asking for a job?

G̶e̶n̶ Z̶ j̶o̶b̶ s̶e̶e̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ Squarespace CMO should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything.'

No no, guys. She's right. We should TOTALLY bring back slavery!!! What? That's whats being discussed here, right? Long hours, doing anything thats asked, without any compensation. That sounds like slavery to me.

Soooooo, who's ready to bring back slavery??? Guys? Guys???

Well there you have it. The nays have it.

Adding Squarespace to the black list...

Well, I'm never using Squarespace again.

that's slavery, Karen

The key takeaway of the article is she was so unemployable when she started that she had to apply everywhere and be willing to put in extra effort and accept lesser pay to get started. Then after that, she got lucky.

That's usually how it goes - especially for those who don't have any defining traits.

Working full-time for free is impossible without another source of income (like a trust fund, or exceptionally generous parents) that most of us don’t have access to. It irritates me that the article doesn’t even mention that. All I’m asking for is ONE sentence.

What is a CMO? Chief Medical Officer? Completely Moronic Outburster? Certainly not Chief Morale Officer?, with those views.

The woodchipper calls to me. It's starving it says. Feet. It wants feet.

What's this willing to do anything thing? Did she sell sex to get where she is now?

lmao.. not even surprised. I've only had one Indian boss, that guy thought salaried employees have to work 60+ hours a week. Then the sob convinced the CTO to eliminate half of the IT staff across the board (14 people total) and replace them with off shore Indian labor to save money. Once I realized what had happened I decided it was best to resign. Especially when my boss expected me to lead team meetings with the off shore Indian team at 4AM PST / 4:30PM IST. And still come into work at 7AM til 5-6-7PM

Eat the rich

It’s easy to work for free when you’re already rich.

And continue to insist on payment…

Hey Kinjil, you're an asshole.

Good dammit, how I hate this ducking world.

I'm sure the Squarespace CMO works long hours for free.

Yeah, nothing new it was the same 20+ years ago too.

time to let every content creator who accepts their sponsorship know about this

Nah companies who have this way of thinking should go out of business instead.

I rather be a hooker than do that. Fuck that honestly.

And if I don't?

I graduated with a BFA, concentration in fashion design, just after a major economic crash. It was expected, even before the crash, that design students would take "internships" at design companies and studios where the would be free labor, doing shit like sweeping, fetching coffee, and so on, while learning nothing beyond what they got in school, and not earning any credit (because, y'know, you had already graduated). It was understood that you would do this for 18-24 months after graduation.

I was not able to do this; my (now) ex-wife was not willing to move to NYC or LA with me so I could pursue this, and I wasn't going to be able to work enough hours at a real job to support myself while also working at an "internship".

This is why I am not working in the fashion industry now.

Take control of that line from independence day, with a slight change. "In the words of YOUR generation. UP YOURS!"