Interning...In the RUG BUSINESS?
09/04/2011
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A headline from the LA Times:
Rug store owner showed porn to teenage intern, police say

Wait a minute ... they have interns now in the rug business? Is nothing sacred anymore? I understand that the practice of interning—i.e., young people from affluent families working for free to get a networking leg up on the competition—had infested many industries. But, I had assumed, the venerable rug merchant business, which has been a byword for thousands of years of being in it for the money, would not stoop so low.
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