If people work for free, does this take away a paid persons job. The answer is simple - yes.
Coming close to a year in a job and I am informed that I am to mentor a new intern. Although, still a freelancer myself, now I have the added bonus of guaranteed hours every week.
The business gets nearly 20 interns every year on a revolving basis in the summers. They turn up squeaky eager and leave squeaky depressed unless they are one of the so called ‘lucky’ ones who get put on the freelance panel.
My new intern Sarah got her internship through one of the staff she knew through a friend of a relative. On first impression she is super nice and bubbly with a lot of the normal eagerness one would expect.
From the start, my priority is to train her and give her as much knowledge as possible. This is very time consuming but feel it necessary and important.
We soon become great friends and my aim is to at least get her on the freelance panel like me.
A few months later, however, cutbacks are made and staff numbers are reduced including freelancers. Who gets to keep their jobs? The interns. Enough said.
Coming close to a year in a job and I am informed that I am to mentor a new intern. Although, still a freelancer myself, now I have the added bonus of guaranteed hours every week.
The business gets nearly 20 interns every year on a revolving basis in the summers. They turn up squeaky eager and leave squeaky depressed unless they are one of the so called ‘lucky’ ones who get put on the freelance panel.
My new intern Sarah got her internship through one of the staff she knew through a friend of a relative. On first impression she is super nice and bubbly with a lot of the normal eagerness one would expect.
From the start, my priority is to train her and give her as much knowledge as possible. This is very time consuming but feel it necessary and important.
We soon become great friends and my aim is to at least get her on the freelance panel like me.
A few months later, however, cutbacks are made and staff numbers are reduced including freelancers. Who gets to keep their jobs? The interns. Enough said.
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