The Guy Suing Fox Searchlight For A Crappy Internship Shares His Advice For Future Interns
UPDATE 6/12/13: Looks like Alex et. al. won! At least this round. Congrats – JJA
Well, Alex Footman, welcome to the real world! I’m not surprised by your treatment and am happy to see you’re doing something about it. Blacklist to come? Bet on it! But then, you sound to me like the kind of individual who will find a way to get things done regardless.
So I say go for it. Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general is not known for treating employees – paid or not – with any kind of kid gloves or other niceties. It is a shame though, when you are led into believing you’re going to be doing one thing, and make a contribution, then all you get are gofer tasks that don’t help you learn anything about the business you want to join. Except, perhaps, that it takes advantage of its celebrity allure, as if that in itself would be a giant perk, validating working for nothing.
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It was telling that Fox Searchlight immediately blamed the production company. “Not our fault – no never!” Somebody got to check off an item on their to-do list.
Now you probably know what Natalie Portman and Darren Aronofsky and others take in their coffee. Or maybe it’s chai. Whatever. Not exactly something you can pump up your resume with.
I hope your lawsuit and the publicity it gets convinces other abused interns, in any industry, to take the matter up.
I agree with him. Some people think our students are “interns” — I am quick to disabuse them of that notion. We charge employers $29K for a team of kids (who collectively work a 40-hour week) for the nine & a half months school is in session.
Do they do entry-level, menial work at these places (including TV stations)? They sure do, but they don’t do it for free–and they’re only 15 years old.
I think it’s disgraceful that these hugely wealthy corporations (like Fox) want these kids to work for free and then spit them out with nothing.
Yes. Disgraceful, but this type of thing has been going on forever because there’s an apparently bottomless barrel of young people who want to work in Hollywood, so they put up with it. But it doesn’t make it right, and in fact it is illegal if the “tradeoff” for the “internship” isn’t happening, i.e., experience in something useful and connections.
Yeah, I think they used to call it slavery.
Exactly.