Dear Michigan WORKS! Program:
When I write on my application that I'm 18 and have only made $140 in the last six months, this is not your cue to call me back to tell me about EXCITING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS!!!1! If I wanted unpaid internships, I would go back to MetroTimes instead of bothering to dick around with all of your paperwork.
Further, I'm 18, I'm not taking classes right now, don't put me in the YOUTH PROGRAM11!!!1! that will find me things like unpaid internships and two-hours-a-week-cleaning-toilets. No. I have one of those lined up right now, I don't need more that'll conflict with the scheduling of my first two-hours-cleaning-toilets job.
I'm 18. I'm not taking classes. I still have bills to pay. I wrote on my application that I'm looking for jobs involving feature writing, illustration, and graphic design. This does not give you the go-ahead to sell me to some struggling hipster magazine as a coffee bitch for no pay and expect me to be happy about it. In fact, I don't want anything to do with the struggling hipster magazine, or being a coffee bitch unless I'm being paid at least $8 an hour to do so.
I've told you this several times. Are you ignoring me, or are you really pants-on-head retarded?
Kisses,
julia
2 comments:
Unpaid internships are the new "jobs." I routinely see them listed on job boards I am subscribed to for graduate students. They typically ask for years of professional experience doing something specific in high tech or design, for some for-profit, corporate type project.
In otherwords, employees who would usually get close to six figure salaries.
For free.
Nice try.
Point is, a state organization that Unemployment forces you to register with (in the hopes of getting you re-employed and off of the taxpayers' dime as fast as possible) should NOT be telling me that all they can give me is unpaid internships when I come to register for them to get me a JOB. Hello, State of Michigan, remember THOSE? They pay MONEY in the form of CHECKS which you put in something called a BANK and can pay your car insurance out of. Jesus christ.
What really kills me are the ads in the paper: Home Care Assistant needed. Must have CRNA, RNA certs; 5+ years exp. 48 hours/wk. Must be able to commute, lift patients, run errands, positive, hard-working attitude a plus. $8/hr.
These certified professionals could be making more working at Starbucks, and they do, so they're all working at Starbucks while the rest of us flop around uselessly because people with college degrees are taking our starter jobs away from us. It's not the illegal immigrants we need to worry about. It's the pay-leeching post-grad people folding t-shirts at Old Navy, stealing jobs away from the 25-and-under market. :|
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