Job or Internship Argument

zcorpian88

Just got word that my younger sister got word that she got an internship as a hairdresser, she is a recently qualified hairdresser and had an interview in Dublin today, being a Jobbridge internship she got the internship straight away obviously since it doesn't pay.

Was talking to my mother today and she said "Your sister got the job" I quickly corrected her and said "It's an intenship not a job" and my mother then tries to put me back in place by saying in this stupid tone with a goofy look on her face that "It's a job" when clearly it isn't. I bitterly said "it was an internship and not a job" because I did a jobbridge internship and got kicked to the kerb as soon as it was over after an internship in a freezing cold office selling City & Guilds courses over the phone and absolutely f**k all came out of it.

I'll also add my famliy live 70km away from Dublin, and the sister has a free travel pass, over an operation she is well recovered from for 5+ years, so she can get up and back from Dublin for free while doing her INTERNSHIP. If it was a job it would pay, period.

Also could have just said "oh well I'd love to see her get to her "job" without her travel pass everyday which would cost her 55 euros for a 10 day bus ticket" because she doesn't drive, but instead of arguing over who is right, I left it.

Now what I ask is this. Is it a job or an internship?

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Well, in an "Internship" the President gets to fcuk you with a cigar tube, doubt that would have occurred had Monica had a "job".

Faith+1

Internship. A job pays a fùcking wage.

December2012

She gets paid. It's the dole.

You sound very bitter.

uch

Slave Labour, defo not a Job

Fluxfan

It's an internship. But if she's recently qualified, and has no experience then fair play to her for taking it on to get the vital experience, that will hopefully lead to full time employment. I'm against jobbridge roles that could be suited to full time paid employees, but there is nothing wrong with getting some experience under your belt to make yourself more employable. Let it go OP and say well done to her.

Buzz Killington the third

"internship as a hairdresser"? Aren't hairdressers supposed to start as trainees, where they actually get paid.....

Dravokivich

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

"internship as a hairdresser"? Aren't hairdressers supposed to start as trainees, where they actually get paid.....

Some people sign up for Stylist courses. I'm assuming that is what his sister may have done.

zcorpian88

Fluxfan wrote: »

It's an internship. But if she's recently qualified, and has no experience then fair play to her for taking it on to get the vital experience, that will hopefully lead to full time employment. I'm against jobbridge roles that could be suited to full time paid employees, but there is nothing wrong with getting some experience under your belt to make yourself more employable. Let it go OP and say well done to her.

I will in my hole, got no "well done" or pat on the back in general from anybody when I did my internship, what goes around comes around.

Give me a travel pass and I'll go up to Dublin and do an internship, better chance of being kept on than doing an internship in the kip of a town that I'm stuck in. Work is where the people are, not a sinner on the street here, unless you're a waste of space hanging around the pub lined streets all day.

Since my internship ended exactly a year ago, I've been unable to get anything and now there is a gap in my CV. I've been told "Employers won't hire if there is a gap in your CV"

In the back of my mind employers want have their cake and eat it, you get your experience and then when it's over a significant amount of time goes by where you have interview after interview and rejection letter after rejection letter and leads to the gap in your CV all over again. Absolute load of bollocks this "Gap in your CV shyte"

I'm a functioning healthy human being, quit being a tosser employers!

Buzz Killington the third

Dravokivich wrote: »

Some people sign up for Stylist courses. I'm assuming that is what his sister may have done.

I'll bet my house she'll end up sweeping the floor and washing hair for the duration of her "internship"

ScumLord

zcorpian88 wrote: »

because I did a jobbridge internship and got kicked to the kerb as soon as it was over after an internship in a freezing cold office selling City & Guilds courses over the phone and absolutely f**k all came out of it.

Why did you want to intern as a phone sales person? I don't see how you were ever going to get anything out of it. Just because someone used the word intern to get free labour rather than cheap labour doesn't mean all internships are useless. Hairdressing in particular would be a job I could see there being great value in just getting the experience.

Bog Standard User

ScumLord wrote: »

Why did you want to intern as a phone sales person? I don't see how you were ever going to get anything out of it. Just because someone used the word intern to get free labour rather than cheap labour doesn't mean all internships are useless. Hairdressing in particular would be a job I could see there being great value in just getting the experience.

i did one as an IT System's admin... didnt get offered a permanent job from it, they had 4 other interns there when i was there none of them were offered jobs either.

waste of time imo

Iwasfrozen

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Just got word that my younger sister got word that she got an internship as a hairdresser, she is a recently qualified hairdresser and had an interview in Dublin today, being a Jobbridge internship she got the internship straight away obviously since it doesn't pay.

Was talking to my mother today and she said "Your sister got the job" I quickly corrected her and said "It's an intenship not a job" and my mother then tries to put me back in place by saying in this stupid tone with a goofy look on her face that "It's a job" when clearly it isn't. I bitterly said "it was an internship and not a job" because I did a jobbridge internship and got kicked to the kerb as soon as it was over after an internship in a freezing cold office selling City & Guilds courses over the phone and absolutely f**k all came out of it.

I'll also add my famliy live 70km away from Dublin, and the sister has a free travel pass, over an operation she is well recovered from for 5+ years, so she can get up and back from Dublin for free while doing her INTERNSHIP. If it was a job it would pay, period.

Also could have just said "oh well I'd love to see her get to her "job" without her travel pass everyday which would cost her 55 euros for a 10 day bus ticket" because she doesn't drive, but instead of arguing over who is right, I left it.

Now what I ask is this. Is it a job or an internship?

An intership is a job and don't speak to your mother like that.

With an attitude like that I wouldn't hire you either, Jesus who wants a black cloud in the office every day?

Fr_Dougal

zcorpian88 wrote: »

I will in my hole, got no "well done" or pat on the back in general from anybody when I did my internship, what goes around comes around.

Give me a travel pass and I'll go up to Dublin and do an internship, better chance of being kept on than doing an internship in the kip of a town that I'm stuck in. Work is where the people are, not a sinner on the street here, unless you're a waste of space hanging around the pub lined streets all day.

Since my internship ended exactly a year ago, I've been unable to get anything and now there is a gap in my CV. I've been told "Employers won't hire if there is a gap in your CV"

In the back of my mind employers want have their cake and eat it, you get your experience and then when it's over a significant amount of time goes by where you have interview after interview and rejection letter after rejection letter and leads to the gap in your CV all over again. Absolute load of bollocks this "Gap in your CV shyte"

I'm a functioning healthy human being, quit being a tosser employers!

Your post is very bitter that your sister got a job. Seriously, you should be happy for her; at least she's not sitting on her hole at home too lazy to work.

Also, if you're in sales I might know of someone that's hiring- but it's in Dublin.

garv123

Not a job but it will look good on her CV when applying for real jobs.


Any internships that came up related to things I could do were in Dublin..

I couldn't even live in Dublin for €150.


Joke of a system to make it look like less people are unemployed!