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Gen Z job seekers should be allowed to steal everything this person owns.
This is the newest form of slavery. Subtle.
Slaves are expensive, you have to pay upfront and provide "housing" and "food"; desperate workers are so much better, they have to pay for their own shit with whatever scraps you throw at them!
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It's not a "job" if you are working for no compensation. That's slavery, my guy.
But they definitely already know that.
If you work at SquareSpace, start talking about a union. The C-Level there absolutely gives no fucks about replacing you.
Ask her to lead by example.
She claims to have done so:
"I went to the business listings and I just started calling up companies and asking them if they had internships available and that I would be willing to work for free.”
It worked. Mathur’s first foot in the door of employment was at the travel firm Travelocity during her first summer at the University of Texas. She did admin and research for its general council—all for free.
I wonder how the money worked at that stage in her life. Was she living off loans? Was she living off wealth from another source?
I just started calling companies and asking
Immediately I don't trust whatever advice she's dispensing. You can't just "call places" or "walk in with a resume" anymore. The phone numbers are all automated systems that will never put you in front of people who can hire you. You need a badge to get in anywhere that'll give you an internship which you can't get if you don't work there, and if you did somehow talk to someone they'd just shrug and say "I don't know how that works, just go to our website and apply there"
Even ignoring the "let them eat cake attitude" it's obvious she doesn't even realize how hiring works at her own company. I guarantee you that her advice would not work at Squarespace
I imagine it's something along the lines of calling people at companies who her family knows. I just assume when rich people say nonsense like that, it's just networking or nepotism that normal people don't have access to.
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Highly likely that there was some connections to grease a bit of the wheels of commerce.
All these "i worked as an intern" usually have some connections that "picked" them from that intern pool. The other interns usually tend to be the fall guys. "So sorry all of you missed out but this person is the bestest!". While being the son/daughter/friend/family of someone in that company.
I used to work at an insurance company, and I ran the internship program for my department once. When we were doing the interviews, one of the candidates was from my geographic area, which is pretty rural and not many of my coworkers were from anywhere near there. He’d launched a free tutoring program at his high school and carried it on a few hours a week through his first couple years of university until that point. For paid work experience, he had mostly agricultural work, because he had to support his family.
I’m realizing now that I may have been a little naïve about it, but no one else even wanted to consider him compared to the students who were able to do many more extracurricular activities and were able to dedicate more hours to non paid work.
What I’m trying to say is that even if nobody is actively corrupt, it’s a structurally classist system.
What I’m trying to say is that even if nobody is actively corrupt, it’s a structurally classist system.
Yep ... this.
Whether there are lies or nepotism or completely inapplicable experiences or just confirmation biases ... the very idea of the internship to get your foot in the door is classist.
The idea that you have time to burn for free for the sake of your career is classist. The idea that an economic system premised on everyone being employed somehow should work by having those employees constantly "hustle" to get employment is classist. To speak of these notions as universally applicable without acknowledging their classism ... is classist.
I wonder how the money worked at that stage in her life.
People can do a lot if mommy and daddy support them regardless. That's why making things work for recipients of nepotism should not be the basis of the economy.
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Eat the rich
Spoken like a true capitalist. Work for free, kiss the boots of corporate execs, and maybe we'll throw you a none.
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From her Wikipedia page lmao:
Kinjil Mathur is an American business woman known for propagating slavery type employment for Gen z which reflects her capitalist mindset of exploiting people for her own personal wealth. Her quote “You really have to just be willing to do anything, any hours, any pay, any type of job—just really remain open.” 1 been widely slammed by Gen z generation .she is also the current chief marketing officer of Squarespace.[3][4][5] She was in Vogue's list of "49 incredible Indian women who are creating legacies across the globe". [6] [1]
If you have to think outside the box to get a job to survive, then the job market is critically bad.
The ownership class should be trembling.
Either the government rolls out new deal measures, yesterday...
Or all the industrialists and officials burn in their compounds,
We’re still a long way off from that.
Remember, it took Hoovervilles and mass suicides to correct from black Tuesday, and there was just as much wealth inequality then as there is now.
Until a large portion of the economy just collapses, the government won’t do anything. And they’ve learned their lesson about letting things get that bad, so they’ll just balance us on a knife edge for as long as physically possible before things inevitably collapse.
Learn how to garden if you have the room. If not, learn how to can your own food and mend your own appliances and clothes. It’s going to get a whole lot worse before we get another new deal.
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They try this bullshit for generations now.
You couldn't get gen x to work for free, you couldn't get us millennials to work for free, what makes you think you'll be able to get the next ones to work for free lol.
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The peasants in the French revolution were "willing to do anything" as well.
Hey, Squarespace CMO? You're a cunt.
Sure. If you want to climb the corporate ladder, chasing money and power, that's the way it works.
If you want to paint houses for a living, or take X-rays, or something simple that just allows you to comfortably pay your bills, this is fucking stupid.
Sure. If you want to climb the corporate ladder, chasing money and power AND daddy is paying your expenses that's the way it works.
Fixed that for you. Internships only benefit the wealthy.
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As a Millennial: Hahahahahahaha fuck you no.
This is exactly how she managed to advance so quickly. By being willing to spout this BS on demand.
I am "willing to do anything"
Except I mean it as an ultimatum
What is wrong with America. In the UK and the EU it is illegal to work for no pay
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She said she is willing to forgive all of her pay to actually stand by her word?
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You wouldn't get the picture from any finance or economic article because they never quote labor leaders, always executives, and can't tell the truth about a union to save their life, but labor organizing is on the rise after big victories last year that continue to impact negotiations and forming new labor unions. Never work for free, always value your time and labor at least as much as the wealth class values their capital.
I hate the softball fluff-pieces.
Even a halfway decent journalist would have asked how she could have afforded to do all those internships for free or how she thinks young people might afford-to now…
This is slavery
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