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[Carl-E]

...except maybe as a character. 

Clueless and zany is fun(ny), but a little unsatisfying...

[Is it cold in here?]

We're beginning to see more to her, though.

[Storel]

I always thought "friend" refers to someone that you have a deeper relationship with than just hanging out sometimes and finding nice when talking to them. More like knowing them well, having them alongside you for important things in your life, trusting them to support you in difficult situations and also trusting them with more information than a simple acquaintance - discussing your emotions and what goes on inside you with them.

That's what I would call a good friend, not just a friend. Perhaps some of the confusion here is that some people are using "friend" and "good friend" to mean what others would call "acquaintance" and "friend".

Naw, she was clearly going to say transformer!

So it's really Claire who's secretly a Volkswagen Beetle.

Well played! 

No, Marten is Emily's superior.

Marten is a lowly unskilled helper at the library. Claire is on the career track to become a librarian. Her status is way higher than his.

No, Marten is paid staff, while Claire is an unpaid intern. At the moment, his status is definitely higher than hers, although she's on track to surpass him eventually.

Well, at least Emily isn't taller than most women, underdeveloped in the chest department, aspergic, socially withdrawn, and with a mysterious past, as are many Trans and Intersex gals her age.

Now, I took this as a gentle suggestion from Zoe that perhaps Emily is Trans or Intersex too and we just haven't found out yet. Because Emily is all those things, pretty much, which would make Zoe's statement that she isn't those things either sarcasm or irony, I'm not sure which. If that's actually what she was implying, anyway; if not, then maybe it was just... humor?

Speaking as a fellow North-East Asian, Emily does not seem undeveloped to me at all.

Good point.

[Barmymoo]

Wait hang on, do we know that the interns are unpaid? If so, shame on Smif! They are working a full time job, they should be being PAID for it.

[DSL]

Wait hang on, do we know that the interns are unpaid? If so, shame on Smif! They are working a full time job, they should be being PAID for it.

Yeah, what does Smif think it is, a major media publication?

[GarandMarine]

Interns at a school library can be paid in course credit I think.

[Barmymoo]

... are you serious? Instead of money, they give you free grades?

[Method of Madness]

Well it counts as credit towards graduation (and on-the-job training is definitely educational), so it's basically working for scholarship money.

[KOK]

If the internship is a requirement for your degree, that may be incentive enough, without any pay needed.

[Zebediah]

These days a lot of companies won't hire someone straight out of college unless they've done multiple unpaid internships. Big change from when I was in school - I was able to work the whole time I was in college and get out with no student loan debt. Now you still have to work, but for free, and pile up huge amounts of debt while you're doing it. Unless you have rich parents, of course.

[Method of Madness]

Having rich parents also means it's more likely that they have an in at a big company, so you can get a fairly high-paying job after you graduate!

[Barmymoo]

I suppose it makes sense for a company to prefer to hire people who have already demonstrated that they're prepared to work hard for no pay.

[Method of Madness]

What a terrible mindset we've accepted as a society

[cesium133]

Don't know how it works for sure, but I would think if they're grad students in library science, this would be part of their graduate assistantship, in which case they would be getting paid for it (not particularly well, but it's a lot better than nothing).

[Neko_Ali]

I had that basically my last semester of university. Instead of teaching us anything in class, we were expected to find an internship for the last three months. They would not help us find one. It wasn't working with the school, which was a tiny technical college anyway. So basically, we were supposed to pay the school for the privilege of finding our own unpaid jobs. If you didn't they gave you an unsupervised project as a grade that basically amounted to busy work.

Yeaaaah... I didn't have a lot of respect for my university. And this was after the semester on computers where I paid then to become a sort of teacher's assistant. I already knew all of the (very basic) computer instruction they were teaching us, so half the class would turn to me for help instead of the teacher....

[pwhodges]

people who have already demonstrated that they're prepared to work hard for no pay.

There's a word for that: slaves.  No two ways about it, modern society (in Britain as well as America) is reintroducing slavery under the guise of helping people (work experience is good, right?).

Except that responsible slave owners fed and housed their slaves, and these modern slaves don't even get that.

[DSL]

people who have already demonstrated that they're prepared to work hard for no pay.

There's a word for that: slaves.  No two ways about it, modern society (in Britain as well as America) is reintroducing slavery under the guise of helping people (work experience is good, right?).

Except that responsible slave owners fed and housed their slaves, and these modern slaves don't even get that.

In the freelance world, it's called "exposure." As in, you can die of it.

[Carl-E]

Tempting to laught loudly at that. 


Through chattering teeth, of course. 

[DSL]

It's sorta funny the first few dozen times you get the offer.

[ZoeB]

Well, at least Emily isn't taller than most women, underdeveloped in the chest department, aspergic, socially withdrawn, and with a mysterious past, as are many Trans and Intersex gals her age.

Now, I took this as a gentle suggestion from Zoe that perhaps Emily is Trans or Intersex too and we just haven't found out yet. Because Emily is all those things, pretty much, which would make Zoe's statement that she isn't those things either sarcasm or irony, I'm not sure which. If that's actually what she was implying, anyway; if not, then maybe it was just... humor?

I was being deliberately ambiguous. I will remain so. Let's just say that there were multiple valid interpretations of what I said, and I may have meant all of them. Is Emily TS or IS? Does it matter? Would it matter if we never knew whether she was or was not? Is it just that women differ, be they standard factory model or customised after delivery? What does our interpretation of what I wrote tell us about ourselves? What does it say about me?

I love the ambiguity in language. It allows you to express several mutually contradictory ideas at the same time, all of which may be useful communication. The few times I commit poetry, I make use of such properties, heterodyning meaning.

[jwhouk]

Now I'm pretty sure she's not a Heterodyne. I mean, yeah, she has the cowlick, but with a surname of Azuma? Unless one of Bill and Barry's great grandparents did some touring of Asia, I don't think she's related to Agatha.

[ZoeB]

Unless one of Bill and Barry's great grandparents did some touring of Asia, I don't think she's related to Agatha.

I thought someone would get the reference.

[Thrudd]

Trilobite ice-cream for everybody