[liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

[Greg Norcie]

Unpaid internships where you are not receiving college credit are
generally illegal, unless the business is "training" you and not
receiving an economic benefit. This is not generally true for a vast
majority of unpaid internships.

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Greg Norcie (greg at norcie.com)
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On 2/22/13 2:20 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
> Unpaid internships are not universally illegal, and how does it help
> anyone to spread untruths like that?
> 
> I'm not saying I'm in favor of them (I'm not), but a quick Google search
> shows you're wrong in most US states.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Greg Norcie <greg at norcie.com
> <mailto:greg at norcie.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Unpaid internships are illegal actually. Unless receiving course credit
>     from a university  - then they're just morally unsound :)
> 
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>     Greg Norcie (greg at norcie.com <mailto:greg at norcie.com>)
>     GPG key: 0x1B873635
> 
>     On 2/22/13 10:16 AM, Q. Parker wrote:
>     > A list enumerating some items which make this post objectionable:
>     >
>     > 1) Unpaid internships are wrong on a number of levels.
>     >
>     > 2) This is data-mining/graph analysis for spam.
>     >
>     > 3) "Quirky" should be a qualification for employment only for
>     clinical trials.
>     >
>     > 4) The only thing this work will liberate is the will to live from
>     fresh-faced recent grads.
>     >
>     > All in all, I'd rather bag groceries than work for a company that
>     posts an ad like this
>     > (and here, no less).
>     >
>     > Quirkily,
>     > Q.
>     >
>     > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:43:38PM -0800, Hamdan Azhar wrote:
>     >> Please forward widely!
>     >>
>     >> ---
>     >> INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE AT LEADING SILICON VALLEY STARTUP
>     >>
>     >> GraphScience - a Palo Alto based venture-backed startup focusing on
>     >> predictive behavioral analytics in social networks - is offering
>     >> internships for college students and recent graduates. Interns
>     will play a
>     >> valuable role in building the leading social advertising platform on
>     >> Facebook.
>     >>
>     >> Our clients are major Fortune 500 retailers and we're looking for
>     quirky,
>     >> creative, self-motivated individuals who would thrive in a fast-paced
>     >> environment. Internships are unpaid and last for at least 3 months.
>     >>
>     >> Interested? Email us your resume, your favorite ice cream flavor,
>     and the
>     >> name of the last book you read.
>     >>
>     >> CONTACT: Hamdan Azhar, Lead Data Scientist,
>     hamdan at graphscience.com <mailto:hamdan at graphscience.com>
>     >
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