The Young and the Unemployed
Well that’s not true. I am employed - or rather, I work, albeit for free. No the idea of ‘the unpaid internship’ is not so exploitative and humiliating that it has been antiquated into non-existence. No, real workplaces still actually employ tactics that involve a sub-form of hazing, barely grazing standards of human decency under the pseudonym of ‘intern’. It’s only natural that these positions are only available in the most profitable of industries, the media conglomerates, law offices, hospitals, television networks, because of course the most profitable industries have no shortage of billions of teenage lemmings who have always dreamed of the day when they would be getting screamed at for screwing up someone’s lunch order, or calling someone by their first name. So it is no surprise to me that when I dictionary.com the word, I find out that the word intern also means basically, to be held prisoner – I would so be lol’ing right now if I wasn’t sitting at my intern desk being under appreciated and over worked. Oh, another insider tip – interns are not allowed to laugh.
in⋅tern
Spelled Pronunciation [v. in-turn; n. in-turn] Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object)
1.
to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
2.
to impound or hold within a country until the termination of a war, as a ship of a belligerent that has put into a neutral port and remained beyond a limited period.
–noun
3. a person who is or has been interned; internee.
