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[Malcolm Lozada]

TheInternship is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, and produced by Vaughn and Levy. The film stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as recently laid-off salesmen who attempt to compete with much younger and more technically skilled applicants for a job at Google. Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, Aasif Mandvi, Josh Brener, Dylan O'Brien, Tobit Raphael, Tiya Sircar, Josh Gad, and Jessica Szohr also star.

After salesmen Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell's employer goes out of business, Billy applies for Google internships for them both. They are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience and not being of traditional collegiate age.

They will spend the summer competing in teams against other interns in a variety of tasks, with only members of the winning team guaranteed jobs with Google. Billy and Nick's team is led by Lyle, who constantly tries to act hip to hide his insecurities, and its other members are seen as rejects: the smartphone-addicted Stuart, the tiger-parented Filipino Yo-Yo, and Indian American nerd-related kink enthusiast Neha.

Although Stuart, Yo-Yo, and Neha find Billy and Nick useless in the initial tasks, Billy rallies the team in a comeback that unifies them in a game of quidditch. However, the team loses after an intern of the opposing team, Graham, cheats.

When teams are tasked with developing an app, Billy and Nick convince their teammates to indulge in a wild night out, which includes going to a strip club. Lyle's drunken antics inspire them to create an app that guards against reckless phone usage while drunk, and win the task by earning the most downloads.

Meanwhile, Nick has been flirting with an executive, Dana, with little success. When he begins attending technical presentations to impress her, he develops an interest in the material. Dana agrees to go on a date with Nick, and she invites him in at the end of the evening.

While the teams prepare to staff the technical support hotline, Billy is offered technical information by an introvert named "Headphones", which helps him. However, the team loses because Billy fails to log his calls for review. Dejected, he leaves the Google campus and pursues a job selling mobility scooters.

In the final task, which is a sales challenge, teams must sign the largest possible company to begin advertising with Google. Nick approaches Billy with an inspiring speech, encouraging him to return and help the team for the last challenge. Reinvigorated, Billy leads them to convince a local pizzeria owner how Google can help him interact with potential customers and thereby expand his business, while remaining true to his professional values.

Chetty is about to announce that Graham's team has won, when Billy, Nick, and their team arrive to give a dynamic presentation about their new client. Chetty recognizes that although the pizzeria is not a large business, its potential is limitless because it is expanding via technology. Graham protests and is dressed down by Headphones, who turns out to be the head of Google Search. Nick and Billy's team win the challenge and the guaranteed jobs, while Graham is punched by an overweight member of his team whom he has constantly bullied.

As the students depart, Nick and Dana are still seeing each other, as are Lyle and Google's dance instructor Marielena. Stuart and Neha have formed a romantic connection as well with Stuart promising to see her in person rather than texting her, and Yo-Yo asserts himself to his mother.

Most of the scenes were filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which posed as a double for the Googleplex, since the company normally does not allow filming on the actual Googleplex for security and productivity reasons.[4] Vaughn came up with the idea after watching a 60 Minutes segment on Google's work culture, and subsequently brought the idea to director Shawn Levy.[5] Google agreed to work with the film producers, with founder Larry Page noting that "computer science has a marketing problem."[6] Google also felt it would help further explain their "Don't be evil" mantra.[6] Although Reuters reported that as part of the deal Google asked for "creative control", Levy denied the company was involved with the script, insisting that Google only assisted from a "technical" perspective.[5] CNN reported that the studio did give "some control" to Google over the depiction of its products.[6]

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Internship has an approval rating of 35% based on 170 reviews and an average rating of 5.00/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Internship weighs down Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's comic charisma with a formulaic script and padded running time that leans far too heavily on its stars' easygoing interplay."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[9]

Another critique was that combining Vaughn and Wilson with Google was poorly timed, and that the film would have been much more successful, had it been released on the heels of Vaughn and Wilson's success in 2005's Wedding Crashers. This fact of timing was satirized by a video news story run by The Onion, a satirical newspaper, titled "The Internship Poised to be Biggest Comedy of 2005".[15]

The Internship was released in "Unrated" form on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack on October 22, 2013.[17] This edition runs 125 minutes and contains profanity and nudity not found in the theatrical release.

Unpaid internships were not designed for our modern society. According to a Time Magazine article, detailing the history of internships, the system was originally created to train young people for trades and medicine. The modern internship then took off in the 1970s when college enrollment began to rise, and hands-on experience gave students a leg up in securing employment in a competitive job market.

Interns, or apprentices as they were called in the Middle Ages, worked alongside trade masters for free until they were prepared to do the work on their own. These young people were not paying exorbitant amounts of money to attend college on the side; this was their education, and it was a straight path to a lucrative career. That aside, apprentices were also often supplied with food, housing and clothes in exchange for their work.

Even 30 years ago, working an unpaid position was more manageable than it is today given the 161 percent increase in the average price of a four-year degree in the United States between 1987 and 2016.

Determining that a student walks away with a great benefit, however, is precisely the issue if only wealthy students can afford to take on the burden to begin with. And ironically, it is already disadvantaged populations who are most likely to work for no pay.

A study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) showed that Black and female students are overrepresented in unpaid internships and underrepresented in paid positions. First-generation students are also less likely to acquire a paid internship than their peers whose parents attended college.

These students are not only taking a financial hit now, but they also walk away with less than their paid peers. Another NACE study showed that, while unpaid internships were helpful for students in networking and confirming the orientation of their careers, they did not result in significant professional skill development. Additionally, unpaid positions were correlated with longer job searches and lower levels of job satisfaction and had a negative correlation to salary and employment outcomes.

Many schools, the University of Massachusetts included, set aside funds to provide high-achieving students working unpaid internships with grants or scholarships. Still, this is letting employers off the hook and doing little to work towards a future in which college students are respected and protected as workers. Grants and scholarships are significant for the students awarded them, but they are a band aid on the problem.

Given it has only been five years since the U.S. Department of Labor established the primary beneficiary test and there has been little serious discussion since, ending unpaid internships altogether is still an elusive goal. In the meantime, paid and unpaid internships do not have to be treated as equal.

Job boards and career centers, especially those used and sponsored by universities, should not be promoting unpaid internships with the same enthusiasm as paid positions. Most of these sites have filters that allow users to sift out unpaid positions, but what if they went a step further and only allowed listings for paid or stipend work? What if college career centers established policies to only advertise internships that provide compensation and only invite potential employers to job and internship fairs if they offer paid work?

While statistics vary on how people find a job or internship, job boards and career centers exist for a reason. Handshake claims to have over seven million active student users and over 500,000 employers. NACE reported that, in 2017, just over 85 percent of students who were actively job searching visited a career center either in person or online. About 68 percent of those students were browsing job listings. Making this change will not go unnoticed by employers.

At a time when there can be no leniency with practices that promote inequality within society, unpaid internships should be viewed as part of an archaic system. The hope of ending them altogether is unlikely to be realized any time soon, but that does not mean that conscientious universities and job search companies cannot begin to turn the tide. If these platforms stop accepting posts for unpaid work, society will stop normalizing a practice that disadvantages low-income students and perpetuates income inequality, racism and sexism in America.

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