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Originally Posted by UFO
Maybe some of you are reading too much into the 'story'. His original comments seemed to be geared more toward youth (generally high school aged and below), not the ones who are doing unpaid internships. I don't read any of this taking advantage of the younger generation at all in the story.
The way I read it, and nowadays with how competitive getting into certain schools and programs can be, kids/youth are doing lots of volunteer work and this and that to pad their resumes and gain some life experience anyways. This isn't really anything new, its been going on for years and years. Even once you're into your career, you continue to do what it takes to further and advance yourself above your peers, to make yourself a more valuable asset compared to your colleagues in order to earn a better living, if that's what you want to do with your career. If you aren't willing to make those sacrifices, you can't sit on the sideline and cry no fair; life moves on.
When someone brought up unpaid internships, he simply replied yeah if the opportunity is there take it if you can, understanding not everybody will have equal access to that opportunity. Just like how not everybody can afford a university education. Or how not everybody can afford even a college or diploma education while working to pay rent, food, daycare, etc etc.
There seems to be a sense of entitlement, not dissimilar to the sense of entitlement a lot of younger people feel that they should be able to afford and buy a detached house because that's the way they grew up. Basically boils down to if you want something, you have to be willing to work for it.
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That's where you are wrong. People shouldn't have to work for free to gain experience. Image a young graduate with 30k of student loan debt living on his/her own, have rent to pay, bills to pay, food to buy can they afford to work for free? Is not a sense of entitlement when all you want to do is work in the field you graduate in and work your way up.
What Poloz said is basically encouraging more companies to use the "Work for free but we give you reference/experience" in turns more companies start doing this and cutting pay on actually hiring people or even cutting back on their current employee.
Remember a few years back a very famous Vancouver tech start up basically did the same thing with interns? Basically making them work for free but have no intention of ever paying them or even actually filling that position up with paid positions.
Also if our youth generations(not just youth by the whole work force for that matter) why are still allowing thousands and thousands of TFW into Canada every month? Shouldn't we try to protect our own citizens first? Shouldn't we give our youth a chance instead of kissing ass to all the companies who love to TFW to take advantage of them? To be honest I feel this whole TFW is totally BS we have enough people wanting work and jobs.