Its one thing to be a corporate whore.
Sure, I oppose to whoring one's self out to a corp (FYI, as opposed to wage slavery, corporate whoring implies a servile, ass-kissing sort of debasement), but there is something worse.
I call it being a corporate concubine. That's when you are force to work for (i.e. "blow") a corporation/for-profit institution for free.
Like in one of the classes I'm taking right now.
5 groups of graduate students are all working on creating a sustainability plan for Landsvirkjun (the private/public corporation responsible for almost all dams and power plants in Iceland), meeting with officials of the company and then trying to sell them our ideas, which they will get copies of, for free.
They aren't paying us. They can use our ideas at will. And if we refuse to take part, we may fail the class.
In other words, we are giving valuable time, effort, and product to a for profit organization in order to receive a numerical estimate of our abilities, based on the judgement of someone who sees nothing wrong with such an arrangement.
How much does that suck?
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