Good Job

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Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here . (It’s anonymous!)

Dear Good Job,

I work at a small agency as a junior account specialist. My boss recently asked me to hire an intern who I would manage. Apparently she used to have interns, but then didn’t for awhile, and now would like to try again.

But she wants an unpaid intern, as she said she always had them. I told her that many people don’t like unpaid internships anymore and find them exploitative and that it’s the industry norm now to pay interns. She said she’d never heard that and said it isn’t the norm in her industry. So I wrote up the job ad and put it on our website and socials, and said very clearly it was unpaid.…