The Young and the Lazy

As an older and occasionally burnt out elder:<p>#2: If the intern was interning in a janitorial/house keeping role, then sure make them take out the garbage and restock your toilet paper. But chances are they're not. If you're not giving them work that is much more significant to the role in which they are interning you're basically just trying to take advantage of them.<p>#3: Not really sure what the anecdote has to do with the point.<p>#4: Honor your agreements. If you hire someone, you pay them.<p>#5: Craigslist is full of people who think they have a great business proposition and if you do X for free this time it is guaranteed to result in much more money later. Sometimes, they'll even let you use it in your portfolio.<p>#7: I've seen this exact same attitude employed by large well established companies. It has nothing to do with youth.<p>#8: Thanks for perfectly demonstrating why your point #7 has nothing to do with youth. Pot, meet kettle.<p>#9: I'm beginning to see a pattern...the author of the post seems to hire only idiots.

Pretty spot on for the most part but I have to disagree with points 4 and 5.<p>On point 4: if you have employees and you expect them to do their job, pay them. It does't matter if they are 24 or 54, your cash flow problems should not become their cash flow problems (even if they whine like a little bitch).<p>On point 5: I can't find it on youtube right now but there is a parody video about client work with a lady asking a hairstylist for free highlights and if she is happy with them she'll reward the stylist with more work. That's how that little rant came off (although the employee/employer/stakeholder relationship wasn't clear so maybe it was justified)

I think younger people are more prone to mental illness, autism, ADHD these days. From the moment of inception, an environment of mental, physical, familial, emotional, societal and spiritual toxicity has occurred, in my view. So you can't expect superhumans to come knocking down your door, expect retards and scammers who are watching out for numero uno (and it's not you.)

Why do I feel like he's worthless and he gets money solely because he managed to initiate some simple jobs? Shouldn't actual computer scientists be paid tons more than this guy?

spec work is unethical.