Sorry if this is the wrong community but just needed to vent. I was told about a position in my organization that I thought was great and paid. Got there and found out there is no pay.
Outside of actual slavery, why would anyone expect anyone to work for literally nothing?
It thins out the competition so that only the trust fund kid can fill those positions
I get that but I was directly told there would be money. Now I am being told there is none. What's the play here?
Oh shit I thought the pay was just implied. You’ve either got A) some incompetent managers B) some manipulative managers or C) both. Sorry to hear that, comrade
Pay was explicit, how much was not. But I was told there would be pay until today.
Not sure what the job was but some brainstorming from my end...
They would have given the job to somebody else but wanted to see if they could convince you to work for free.
They read some shitty business/psychology article and wanted to see which of their applicants would fight for money, for... reasons?
:the-more-you-know: ... Got any friends who don't have money problems to try to get the job and just break/steal as much as possible?
That's bullshit, sorry you have to deal with that, and I don't think we can tell you what they were thinking. You've gotta confront them, unfortunately.
Orgs depend on unpaid labor because otherwise you'd need to pay people. Orgs would then need much larger dues/income than they do now.
Let's say it's a socialist org paying $15/hour with no benefits at 35 hours per week (i.e. aesthetically good but really not great). So, $525/week. With an org of 100 members, that's $5.25 per week per member, $21 per month per person just to support one paid employee.
If the org is small, only 15 members, it's $140 per member per month.
Org work should be paid but we need to be very strategic about it because we don't control enough funds to make it practicable for small orgs or for medium-size to have multiple. Or find other ways to get funding.
