Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO
Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO
“Squarespace Exec Wants Slave Labor”
Great! Let's up your income tax rate to 90% and add a 1% per annum wealth tax over 25mil in assets, so all tertiary education can be free and people can earn a universal basic income, while they get settled into a career path they love.
Hey that way we would have time for hobbies and socializing. They won't let us have any of that shit.
Reminder that unpaid internships are almost always illegal in the USA. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/71-flsa-internships
She was able to work, for free, in her freshman summer, while going through for a finance degree. So many questions:
Where did the money come from? Who paid her tuition?
Why not go through for Co-op, where you obtain a job as part of schooling? Or why did she have to hunt for internships? Even my wife, who had unpaid internships and family to back her up during the same time, had help from the school to find it. How jank is U of Texas?
Why, pray tell, is a finance degree holder the CMO?
I mean, I'm happy for her, but how useful is her recommendations? If you don't have a family who can pay your tuition and summer living costs, this is useless.
And ignoring how people need money in order to have shelter and food, what does she think happe s if everyone starts doing this? Should I be calling up everyone at SquareSpace and asking for a job?
It really does sound like one of those "with a small donation from my parents" story. And even if it's not, great for her, she was lucky. Does she really believe most students just smoke weed and fuck all day or something? Every single person I knew from the US that went to uni worked during uni. Hell, even as a European I had to work despite the state money I got.
I know people who donated blood and plasma just to get by - and they had scholarships!
How can employers be "in dire need of employees" and people still have to hustle to get a job? They obviously aren't in dire need.
G̶e̶n̶ Z̶ j̶o̶b̶ s̶e̶e̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ Squarespace CMO should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything.'
There's an old Soviet joke.
We pretend to work. They pretend to pay us.
No no, guys. She's right. We should TOTALLY bring back slavery!!! What? That's whats being discussed here, right? Long hours, doing anything thats asked, without any compensation. That sounds like slavery to me.
Soooooo, who's ready to bring back slavery??? Guys? Guys???
Well there you have it. The nays have it.
I think you vastly underestimate the number of people who are willing to bring back slavery today.
we already have slavery here. it was never gone..
Adding Squarespace to the black list...
Well, I'm never using Squarespace again.
The key takeaway of the article is she was so unemployable when she started that she had to apply everywhere and be willing to put in extra effort and accept lesser pay to get started. Then after that, she got lucky.
That's usually how it goes - especially for those who don't have any defining traits.
Agreed. She had the right connection, had the right look, was in the right place at the right time, etc. Not saying she's not intelligent, creative, etc--she probably is or wouldn't be in these roles. She definitely didn't get to where she is through hard work, though.
Not to mention Travelocity broke the law by allowing her to work for free while benefiting their company.
In general, as long as an employee is engaging in activities that benefit the employer, regardless of when they are performed, the employer has an obligation to pay the employee for that time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_1938
They did. They paid her a rate of $0/hr, which she agreed to.
huh
Working full-time for free is impossible without another source of income (like a trust fund, or exceptionally generous parents) that most of us don’t have access to. It irritates me that the article doesn’t even mention that. All I’m asking for is ONE sentence.
What's this willing to do anything thing? Did she sell sex to get where she is now?
Yes, but not using her body.
The woodchipper calls to me. It's starving it says. Feet. It wants feet.
Eat the rich
Hey Kinjil, you're an asshole.
Good dammit, how I hate this ducking world.
Yeah, the whole nightmare capitalist workplace is just absolutely quackers.
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time to let every content creator who accepts their sponsorship know about this
I haven't has a squarespace ad read on my feed for years. Now I know why.
I'm sure the Squarespace CMO works long hours for free.
Yeah, nothing new it was the same 20+ years ago too.
Nah companies who have this way of thinking should go out of business instead.
I rather be a hooker than do that. Fuck that honestly.
I respect hookers way more than people working for squarespce, wurdpress or wix
Honestly same here tbh! At least sex workers are transparent unlike people who work for big corporations. Society should change the people who they respect but doubt it tbh cuz misogyny and capitalism.
I'm gen X. I worked for free in my chosen field to get experience. I worked shitty jobs at the same time for rent.
It sucked, but it landed me a super sweet job compared to my young peers, as I had experience on the ground, and they did not. That was the only difference.
It's a shitty thing starting at the bottom. That's how I stepped up, and got out of my young man poverty.
Now I know I'll get down voted, so you do that. But, that was my reality. That's what happened. That's what gave me my start. Such is life.
You're getting down voted because it's not 1990 anymore. Working for free just gets you abused, not a foot in the door.
Many people had that same attitude then as well. It's always been like this. It's not like anything is different.
The only thing different now is the huge costs of living which would make it a lot more difficult to do versus when I did it back in the day. It definitely was financially easier for me because the economy was not so screwed as it is now.
What time period did you work for free while also working shitty jobs for rent?
Lots of people are working two full time jobs to barely survive...
I'm not saying you're wrong, but you have to look around and understand that a 1 bedroom apartment can easily be one full time jobs worth of salary to rent if you're a GenZ, then your second full time job is utilies and food... And depending on where they live, that's WITH a roommate.
Once you've worked 16 hours a day, plus commute time, unpaid lunches...you basically only have time to sleep.
Where in that schedule do you propose someone donate their time working for free?
This was definitely in a time when things were heaps cheaper. It was the 1990s and the cost of living was nothing like it is now so it was definitely easier for me.
But I do remember working from some time in the afternoon until about three in the morning on a project for free to demonstrate that I can do what I needed to do.
That project got me a foot in the door and it got me my first job that I would consider my real road to success.
It wasn't fun, it wasn't easy, and i remember being so tired that my eyes were shuttering/shaking, but I knew that if I could get that out the door and show them what it was I could do, that it gave me a good chance.
It did more than that, it put me straight into salary in their company within a week.
Absolutely fantastic, and I might have been lucky, that I didn't get screwed, but that it is what happened.
Take control of that line from independence day, with a slight change. "In the words of YOUR generation. UP YOURS!"
You first, asshole.
Talking about assholes, that's where she can put it.