cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21284770
Role Description
This is a part-time on-site volunteer role at Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto, ON. As a volunteer, you will be responsible for assisting with various tasks and providing support to the staff. This may include helping customers find products, restocking shelves, organizing inventory, and maintaining a clean and organized store environment. Your role as a volunteer is crucial in ensuring that our customers have a positive and seamless shopping experience.
If you volunteer for this shit and you don't have to, you are dumb as hell. Even if you need to volunteer somewhere and this is your choice, you are semi dumb.
I remember having the argument 20 years ago about working for free so you can put it on your CV. Not so happy to see it progress past interns and right to general labour.
Here's a thing. Yes. What you say is true... But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.
Don't blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.
At some point workers need to stand up to themselves.
But really, everyone gets some blame. The "employers", the workers, and the government that allows this kind of things to be legal.
Any dumbass doing free work for companies that can afford to pay them, make the entire labor industry worse
Cough Reddit mods cough.
"need to volunteer somewhere"? What court-appointed sentence would accept working at a for-profit business as "community service"? What University Enrollment Office would see you working there as a plus?
This is just an internship... to eventually be a janitor. Which I would actually be okay with, if it's at a charity.
Not necessarily, I would do it and mess it up really bad just to make them look even worse.