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WCDT: 2756-2760 (28 July-1 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesium133:
How do we know the interns aren't paid? (Is it stated in a comic I forgot about?)
Madmartigan:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 29 Jul 2014, 07:07 ---How do we know the interns aren't paid? (Is it stated in a comic I forgot about?)
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Because internships are slave labor, bruh. I thought every college student/grad learned that lesson. :cry:
--- Quote ---The library job makes me quite depressed, really. I really hope Marten finds a better job.
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Jeez, man. I didn't need to be depressed today with a reminder of how sad Marten's life can be when you look at it that way. Really though, the dude just doesn't have much ambition. Granted, other things have happened, but when was the last time Marten jammed out with his "band?"
At any rate, maybe Emily is so damned weird and just...out there, that her weirdness supreme could be a positive influence. Granted, everyone in the QC land is a bit...odd, but Emily takes the cake and that's saying something.
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Looking at it again, Marten doesn't even really acknowledge Hanner's thoughts on just telling Emily he's not interested. He deflects with an excuse that actually makes no sense.
Unless he's afraid of what Emily would do if he rejected her advances, in which case, if that imagined scenario in the last panel was Marten's....it'd be a frightening level of weird and creepy combined.
cesium133:
In physics at least, the REU (Research Experience for Undergrads) interns are better-paid than the grad students.
Neko_Ali:
It mostly depends on who you are interning for. When I did my electronic's internship I made sure to find a place that was willing to pay me for it. Mostly because I needed money to pay rent and such... In my case is was really more a three month minimum wage trial period where they made reports to my school about my performance. Then once I graduated I was moved up to paid test monkey with a degree and got like a 75 cent raise.
My case is fairly unusual though. Most interns are expected to work for free 'because of the experience'. Which is BS and slave labor because most people who take on interns know they can use and abuse them, because the system puts all the power in the businesses hands.
Barmymoo:
Why should he have higher ambitions? We've never heard him express a desire to do a particular job (not a realistic one anyway). All he really wants to do is play music, and a higher-pressure job would reduce his opportunity to do that, not increase it. Everything that he's said he wants to change about his life can be achieved as easily or more easily in his current job.
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