You've got to be kidding me

[ridicully]

"The internship programme is free for qualified candidates. The position is not salaried."
I beg your pardon? You want fully qualified vets to spend a year working for you, often more than 12 hours a day, in addition to nights and weekends, while working on their dissertation at the same time. And you won't pay anything?
Look, I don't expect to earn enough money to pay for a place to live *and* food. But, you know, every other hospital I've seen so far offers at least something. Interns in Edinburgh lived in a small flat at the clinic for the year (actually, I think they even got paid). The hospital for internal medicine at your uni pays at least a small amount. Probably more symbolic than helpful.
But nothing? You've got to be joking.

I refuse to earn less than a cashier for more work in addition to five years of vet school.
Acutally, I probably will work for less. But I won't work for nothing. (See me give in and work for free in five months)

Comments

[arthenadent.livejournal.com]

In the US, "salaried" can either mean 1. any pay at all or 2. a set amount paid that is not broken down into dollars/euro/pounds/whatever per hour, but into money/year. Like "This job pays $40,000 a year" is salaried. So maybe the internship is paid, but they pay by the hour instead of in a set amount? Salaried is good to go for here, since salaried employees are more likely to get health insurance and paid vacation and such. No idea if meaning #2 applies in the UK, though.

[ridicully]

But this is a job at the Uni in Munich. And the German offer made it clear that there was no money to be expected.

The 'salaried' part was their translation :)

[arthenadent.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, damn. Eff that noise, then! With all your fabulous animal knowledge, you certainly deserve to get paid plenty!

[ryf.livejournal.com]

The sad is thing is that you know they will get away with it and have someone do the job because people are desperate for experience, otherwise they won't get a job.

[ridicully]

The absolute worst part is, that the job market for vets is acutally pretty good. Well, relatively speaking.

But they'll probably still get away with it, because LMU Munich looks good on a CV.

[skywhisperer.livejournal.com]

Hi! Found you from the supportlounge thread, and thought I'd say hi...

[ridicully]

And a 'Hi' to you as well *g*

[fluffyllama.livejournal.com]

Just popping in to say Happy birthday! Have a good one :)

[ridicully]

Ohhhhh. Thank you. I'm having lots of fun *g*