RE: Contest | 25-Word-Comment - Monkey Business | A Picture + Comment - 6 Steem
Labour for free was the worst nuisance and nightmare in Italy among the majority of Italian trainees. Trainee periods were intended to be for free by law and the companies and professional environments (lawyers and psychologists first of all, but architects, accountants, etc. surely benefitted by that questionable rule) had their personal slaves during decades (that law authorizing companies and professional to not pay a single cent to trainees became illegal in 2020, if I don't mistake). During the times of my first degree, thanks God I was one of the few trainees paid despite that questionable ancient law. I can't imagine a trainee of my age who couldn't count on family support having to work for free only because he/she was a simple trainee.
Everyone benefits and for free still exist if you are lucky they pay your traveling costs.
Yes, right, that's what trainee can expect if they are lucky. The worst happened to a colleague of mine: the secretary of her dominuses (the owners of the law bureau) required she should use a credit card to pay for the stuff to start trials. In few words, the trainee was pushed to pay for the legal expenses of the bureau. What a stunt: a jobless trainee still forced to live with her mother despite her 30 and more years old facing the mockery to almost get forced to ask for a credit card to her mother or father (or sister) to pay for someone else's bureau expenses. In another occasion, the lawyers asked her to go to a city at 100KM or more, obviously at her expenses, to get a CD-ROM they had forget at the computer maintenance. Perfectly knowing my friend, in addition, hasn't a driver's license. Well, she couldn't help but refuse. But the moral of the story, at their turn, a lot of lawyers in her city are 100% supported by their parents because most of clients don't pay them for their legal services, so they can't pay for the rent and the bills of their bureau. It's like a cat chasing its tail...