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<p>I agree 100 percent! These companies should reduce their CEO’s pay by a half-million a year and use the money to actually pay for and train entry-level workers like they used to.</p>
<p>^they probably do pay for and train workers in India, China, Africa and South America.</p>
<p>A worker in the US comes with too many costs - a sense of entitlement, potential to claim sex or racial discrimination, may claim disability, may be a screw up that takes a year to fire, or a minimum wage that cost more than the value of the work to be done.</p>
<p>And I prefer CEO pay to be high for the time my children get to that level. I don’t want my kids making half the money to do the same job as their predecessors.</p>
<p>Lol, I’m just being facetious now.</p>
<p>^good one, though. Lots of people do feel their kids are entitled to the starter jobs, just for…what? Applying? Finishing the degree? Get some experience that matters to hiring managers, somehow, something. Don’t worry about the big boys and girls, worry about how you get and keep the first real job and build your resume, your desirability.</p>
<p>my daughter also worked for free ( intern ) in the entertainment industry and it yielded nothing.</p>
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<p>My D worked in unpaid internships in the entertainment industry, and in her case it yielded something wonderful … she realized she didn’t actually want to work in the industry, after all. I consider that very important. And I am sure that the work experience was helpful in terms of showing companies that she did indeed work.</p>
<p>In order for an internship of any kind to be fruitful is for the feelings about it to be mutual. Just because someone did an internship, doesn’t mean they were good or great at it. Just like there are bad internships as we all agree, there are bad interns too.</p>
<p>And bad is in the eye of the beholder. A parent is usually not the best judge of how their child performed on the job and neither is the child.</p>