It's the kind of thing that you have to see to believe. Fortunately, nothing ever disappears on the Internet - and screenshots of an unbelievable "reverse financed internship", where the intern would have to pay the company, are floating around on Twitter, amusing people even after the job listing has been taken down.
On Wednesday, a Twitter user posted a screenshot from employment search website Indeed. The screenshot shows an internship listing by a New York-based company looking for a data analyst.
"You will complete various applied research projects for data analysis," the listing for the full-time position reads. "Strong critical thinking skills and some programming experience is a plus."
It all seems fairly straightforward until you reach the sentence that says: "This is a reverse financed internship so you will pay $15/hr to work here."
The tweet has gone viral on the microblogging website, collecting more than 86,000 'likes' and thousands of shocked comments. Some Internet sleuths figured out that the job listing was made by a company called Eisele & Stern.
— Sentient Blockchain (@tjmcnab) January 8, 2020
The official support account for Indeed also confirmed the listing was real and said that it had been removed from the website. "We are investigating further internally," they wrote.
Hi there, we can confirm that this job posting has been removed and we are investigating further internally. <PM
— Indeed Support (@IndeedSupport) January 8, 2020
Meanwhile, here is how amused Twitter users reacted to the internship:
This is the final stage of capitalism
— slater (@helioseee) January 7, 2020
"Strong critical thinking skills are a plus", but expect you to pay $15/hr to work there... pic.twitter.com/DxSDKYspMT
— ConvictTrump #ScreamingFirehawks #StargateNow???????? (@flgamer5242) January 7, 2020
— Burhan ???? (@_brohan_) January 7, 2020
According to one Twitter user, this isn't even the first instance of a company expecting their interns to pay them.
I have seen this, too! There was a design internship here in Denver that you had to pay to do and they justified it by saying that it's more rigorous/comprehensive than grad school with more networking opportunities. ????
— teduardo (@unsteddy) January 8, 2020
What do you think of this internship? Let us know using the comments section.
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