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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 322 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gen Z job seekers should be allowed to steal everything this person owns.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I aint gonna say I condone crime but I also did not see anything either

Clumsy rich and their property 🐸

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a crime that these people are rich in the first place.

Never forget, wage theft is the most common form of theft in the USA!

Eat the rich. Farm their unplanted lands!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

sure as fuck don't condone parasites either lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When the revolution comes, people should remember her and where her mansion is

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This is the newest form of slavery. Subtle.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not a "job" if you are working for no compensation. That's slavery, my guy.

But they definitely already know that.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Even slaves got food and shelter.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's because they were "assets"! Now people are disposable– trash to be dumped when better bodies come to replace them.

We need better laws to protect workers in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 8 months ago

If you work at SquareSpace, start talking about a union. The C-Level there absolutely gives no fucks about replacing you.

[+] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Yep, it was her generation that quickly pulled up the ladder behind them.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago

Eat the rich

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like a true capitalist. Work for free, kiss the boots of corporate execs, and maybe we'll throw you a none.

milLeNnIaLsAnDgEnZdOnTwAnTtOwOrK

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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,

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[+] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This isn't click-bait. An unpaid internship IS unpaid work.

In Australia and a number of other countries they are ILLEGAL. (Other than when it forms a small part of a degree).

Unpaid internships are work, and it seems you agree. This CMO is literally saying people should be willing to work for free to get their foot in the door, a disgusting and illegal practice which only gives employers even more power.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

It's fucked up that unpaid internships are even a thing in the US. In Canada, they are illegal. And guess what? Most companies still hire interns. The only reason they don't pay them in the US is because they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Please stop normalising unpaid internship.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Six one way half a dozen the other. I mean, it's not so different as you imply. No conditions are right to exploit this way.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Their quoting of "unpaid internship" as something other than "unpaid work" is a distorted view, and part of the problem. No one should work for free unless they are volunteering for charity or something. No one should work for free at a for-profit company, that's for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Indian leadership in American companies. The fucking worst.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what he pays you

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She should whore herself out for free and see how she likes it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

She’s ensuring her place in line for the guillotine

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you want to climb the corporate ladder, chasing money and power, that's the way it works.

Nobody gets ahead by providing free labour, that shit is a myth so slaves work "hard" and nepo babies get promoted...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Hey, Squarespace CMO? You're a cunt.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Working for free only communicates that you don’t value your labor, expertise, nor your time.

Never work for free. You disrespect yourself and your profession.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Squarespace's CMO can suck my left nut.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

As a Millennial: Hahahahahahaha fuck you no.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

This is exactly how she managed to advance so quickly. By being willing to spout this BS on demand.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I am "willing to do anything"

Except I mean it as an ultimatum

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What is wrong with America. In the UK and the EU it is illegal to work for no pay

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

She said she is willing to forgive all of her pay to actually stand by her word?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

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…

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