Okay, but if this is a stepping stone to making MILLIONS then why not pay something decent to start? I mean we're not talking some kid in college taking an unpaid internship at a local newspaper. The $15/hr is such horrible pay for any job in the NFL IMO. Again, when a team is clearing 357 million a year they can afford to pay decent hourly rates. I just think you can treat ex-players better than that. I think you can treat ANY employee better than that.
In 2015, CEO Dan Price raised the salary of everyone at his Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments to at least $70,000 a year.
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It was six years ago when CEO
Dan Price raised the salary of everyone at his Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments to at least $70,000 a year.
Price slashed his own salary by $1 million to be able to give his employees a pay raise.
I don't care what the industry "standard" is. That's bullshit to keep the money in the owner's pockets. It's what fast food companies do. It's what happens in academia. And it's failing right now, people are fed up. Things need to change.
I wonder how many people have done the internship for slave wages and then turned that into a great full-time job? If it's basically guaranteed then I guess you suffer through that first year. But what I'm saying is, "Why make your interns suffer?" Treat them better. Always. Period.
Here's what I see in your comment. "Because they don't have to." That's a shitty attitude, and won't draw good people to your organization. Just because you CAN get away with it, doesn't mean you SHOULD. And all this does it make the Bears look cheap and petty in the public eye, when they don't need to do that.