The Buying and Selling of an Intern

When companies allow Interns into their studios they aren’t supposed to be the studio ‘lackey’.

Interning is supposed to be a time where free service is offered in exchange for ‘real experience’ not doing menial tasks for a boss that wants to save money on hiring a secretary or coffee go-fer or a business that believes the intern must pay their dues with tasks unrelated to their training.

Companies taking advantage of young Interns are despicable, and quite frankly must be deficit in the compassion department to be a real leader instead of a greedy opportunist.

Opportunists are respected when they break new ground and prove they have the savvy to accomplish the task, but just taking advantage of the economic times to use young interns shows lack of ethical morals in business and personal character that will bring down American business faster than any Stockholder's whim.

How hedonistic business has become, where the Guilds no longer bring young interns under their wings to teach them the ways of excellence in craft and ethics for business. There IS room for every Intern to be led if we just pay attention.

Wasting of young enthusiastic interns has become the norm, soliciting to pay for the right to be an intern for a larger company as we solicit chairs in the Senate, a corrupt business practice.

As Corporations, we are responsible to teach our youth how to excel and contribute to America’s business growth industry. Instead I hear horror stories of jealous co-workers, vagrant supervisors and the buying and selling of intern positions for profit and fun, how crass.

For shame that people have become so disconnected to the right way to conduct business for everyone’s benefit, America needs to be lifted up to higher standards to win this new economic battle. Business must step up without supervision or the need for a ‘new-committee’ to Big Brother us into doing the right thing. We must all agree to treat youthful interns as our most prized pot of gold at the end of the future rainbow instead of seeing them as a black cloud raining on your parade…share the wealth and your skills without giving trade secrets away, teach your co-workers to hold no contempt for interns, and last, teach them that business means ethics or suffer the alternative where you are just teaching what we already know, that it’s a dog-eat-dog world of unethical behavior and shallow greed.

Interns are the next best thing in business and we can’t rely on them learning the ropes that unravel at the slightest tension; especially when we need new leaders to know what and how to do business so that the wealthy won’t have the power to bail us out with interest, and we live in fear of debt…the system must change, NOW.

Business, can you hear this plea? Will you step up and train the next generation to be strong or simply continue to make our youth waste their time and training? Will you be an individual participant in the improving our business future or will you just maintain the status quo?
Shame on us.