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This Harry Potter cartoon is really funny, especially if you loathe bad fan fiction cross overs and people who write themselves into their own fan-fic. and it's free of spoilers, for those who care... It's very well drawn - and for Lucius fans there's also this lovely pencil portrait.

And on the subject of Harry Potter - some of the extras aren't being paid. I always felt that 'work experience' was a form of slave labour (and child slave labour at that).

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I agree re work experience. Most people at 15 aren't allowed to do anything interesting, so get stuck making tea, filing and boring crap. I think if they did genuine extras work for the Harry Potter film they should have been paid, school time or not.

I was lucky I arranged my own work experience - I still didn't get paid but I got to do stuff, and found it interesting.

Nice comic strip, shall have to propagate that.

Natalya

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*curls up and howls at the cartoon*

Thank you!

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Work experience at my school wasn't even child labour, it was just pointless. Spent a week at BNFL. They let me play doom for a while, until one of the managers complained, then they had me counting lightbulbs for a bit.

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counting lightbulbs at BNFL? That's just surreal!

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Heh, love the comic. (c:

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I bet those pupils are miffed - don't blame them but if it's work in school hours, then I think the school is justified in calling it schooling.

When I was at school work experience had to be done in the holidays, being as one part of the experience was not getting long school holidays. The probably not being paid was supposed to convince you of the need to pass your exams so that people would pay you in future...

Thing with work experience is it's sometimes slave labour for the child but as often its slave labour for the people the kid is working for, who get a WE student dumped on them - I've been on both ends of that one. I had 2 students for 2 weeks when I was at IBM - the first one was fantastic, did some work for me, learnt lots, and spent his free time creating a sculpture out of bulldog clips. The second was a nightmare the entire time and I don't think he learnt anything, apart from experiencing an official bollocking from one of the directors of IBM UK...

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Everything about that news item sucks!

School is not an employer or a temping agency. If they allowed their students to film during school hours, that's a deal between them and the students, while wages is between the students and the film company. I don't see how the school can decide after the fact to keep the wages.

I think schools are in the business of teaching, not contracting out their students. Did the students have a choice as to whether to do the work or not?

Also, "work experience" certainly includes the concept of getting paid in my opinion. The only work-experience-giving aspect of this event is learning how to deal with an unscrupulous employer who wants to pilfer your wages. I guess that's valuable experience.

Finally, the concept that the council should "develop an overall policy to govern payments from future Harry Potter films" ought to be grounds for impeachment.

Pavlos

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I found work experience a tedious waste of time... I thought that "unemployment experience" would've been much more useful, ie how to fill in benefit forms, what your rights are, and that watching "Quincy" or "Columbo" &c when you wake up is a much better way to start the day than watching breakfast tv... ;)

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The work experience I had arranged by my school was brilliant - I spent a week in the Satellite Research facility at the University of Surrey playing with satellite telemetry data. Then I arranged some more work experience myself in the Institute of Oceanography, and spent three weeks playing with mud samples from the surface of the ocean and looking up references for the scientists there. Both were extremely fun things to do, and the Institute even paid me.

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Thankyouthankyouthankyou for that link!!! Fantastic comic *grins lots*

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