Six weeks into her unpaid internship, Emilia found the folder. It was buried at the bottom of a shared drive and labeled "Handover (old)." It contained a list of daily tasks written by someone who had since left the company. Supplier orders. The weekly stock report. Invoice checks every Friday afternoon.
无薪实习进行到第六周，艾米莉亚发现了那个文件夹。它埋在共享盘的最底层，名字叫“交接（旧）”。里面是一份日常工作清单，出自一位后来离开公司的人之手。供应商订单。每周库存报告。每周五下午核对发票。
She read it twice. Then she opened her own notes and realized that the two lists were almost identical. She had been doing a full-time job for six weeks, and nobody had ever described it that way.
她读了两遍。然后她打开自己的笔记，发现两份清单几乎一模一样。她已经做了六个星期的全职工作，却从来没有人这样说过。
At first, she told herself it was normal. Interns were supposed to learn by doing real work, and her manager, Karin, had always been friendly. But when Emilia counted her hours that night, the total came to forty-three in the last week alone. Nobody had asked her to work that much. She had simply kept working because the tasks kept arriving.
起初，她告诉自己这很正常。实习生本来就该通过做真正的工作来学习，而且她的经理卡琳一直很友善。可是那天夜里，艾米莉亚算了算自己的工时，仅上一周就有四十三个小时。没有人要求她干那么多。她只是一直在干，因为任务一直在来。
She might have stayed quiet if she had been less tired. Instead, she spent the weekend preparing, the way she had once prepared for exams. She made a table of every task she had completed, how long each had taken, and what the company would have paid for it. She wrote down what she wanted, which was a contract, and what she would accept, which was less.
要是没那么累，她也许就沉默下去了。可她偏偏用整个周末做准备，就像从前备考那样。她列了一张表，写下自己完成的每一项任务、每项花了多长时间，以及公司本来要为此付多少钱。她还写下了自己想要的，那是一份合同，以及自己能接受的，那是少一些的待遇。
On Monday morning, she asked Karin for ten minutes. Her hands were cold, and she kept them under the table.
周一早上，她请卡琳给她十分钟。她的手很凉，一直藏在桌子下面。
"I've noticed that I'm doing the work from the old handover list," she said. "I'd like to talk about being paid for it."
“我发现我做的都是旧交接清单上的工作，”她说，“我想谈谈这些工作该不该有报酬。”
Karin did not look surprised, which Emilia found more unsettling than anger. "I wondered when you'd say something," she said. "I should have raised it myself."
卡琳并不惊讶，这比生气更让艾米莉亚不安。“我还在想你什么时候会开口呢，”她说，“本该由我先提的。”
"If this were a temporary project, I'd understand," Emilia continued. "But these tasks happen every week, and they have been done by an employee before me."
“如果这是一个临时项目，我能理解，”艾米莉亚接着说，“可这些任务每周都有，而且在我之前就有一位正式员工做过。”
Karin read the table slowly. She asked a few questions, mostly about the supplier orders, and then leaned back in her chair. The budget for the full role, she explained, had been removed after the last employee left, and she could not reverse that herself. However, she could offer a three-month contract at part-time pay, with a review at the end.
卡琳慢慢地看完了那张表。她问了几个问题，主要是关于供应商订单的，然后向后靠在椅背上。她解释说，上一位员工离开后，这个完整岗位的预算已经被取消了，她自己没办法恢复。不过，她可以提供一份为期三个月的合同，按兼职薪酬发放，期末再做评估。
It was far less than Emilia had written on her page. For a moment, she wanted to refuse on principle.
这比艾米莉亚在纸上写的少得多。有那么一会儿，她想出于原则拒绝。
Then she did the sum in her head. It was not the salary she had hoped for, but it was money, and it would be in writing. "I'll accept it," she said, "if my title changes to coordinator and the review date goes into the contract."
然后她在心里算了一下。这不是她期望的薪水，但毕竟是钱，而且会白纸黑字写下来。“我接受，”她说，“前提是我的头衔改成协调员，评估日期要写进合同里。”
Karin nodded. "I'll draft it today."
卡琳点点头。“我今天就起草。”
Back at her desk, Emilia opened her calendar, found a day in the third month, and typed one word into the box: "Review."
回到座位上，艾米莉亚打开日历，找到第三个月里的一天，在框里敲下了一个词：“评估”。
