Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores

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• macisr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • adam_y@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any dumbass doing free work for companies that can afford to pay them, make the entire labor industry worse

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cough Reddit mods cough.

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  • nman90@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not necessarily, I would do it and mess it up really bad just to make them look even worse.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “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.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Volunteer? As in no pay? And people applied?

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  • theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Volunteering is a common graduation requirement for American high schools and liberal arts college courses.

    Got to get them nice and docile for corporate drone life while they’re still in their formative years.

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    • ech@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is completely incorrect. It is not common at all (honestly I doubt it exists anywhere) to require students to volunteer work for a damn convenience store, or anything of the like. Some might require volunteering with community programs and non-profits, which has nothing to do with making anyone “docile” for future employment. Keep your crap cynicism to yourself and leave proper volunteer programs alone.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not for a fucking for-profit business, it isn’t!

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, yeah didn’t think of this. I volunteered cleaning garbage from nature to get those hours. Seems kind of weird to go work for a corpo for free but I don’t wanna judge people’s options too hard.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This seems to have been in Canada

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why steal, sell the goods and go to a dealer and buy oxycodone when I can volunteer here and just steal Oxy.

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    • macisr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good point haha.

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the glory of the Mammon!

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• LutefiskPizza@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A Loblaws company.

  Figures.

  Fuck the Weston family with a rusty hacksaw.

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  • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    G A L E N

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They claim it was an error yet the ad makes it clear, several times that this is a volunteer position

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would’ve expected them to have made a case for why you’d volunteer for such a position but they never did.

  we are committed to providing professional expertise

  Wants pros, is trying to get volunteers. Hmm.

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  • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worse, they “need” pros.

    Your position as a volunteer is crucial to t

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “It’s crucial we get free labour so we can keep making record profits for no work at all.”

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• Starkstruck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why the fuck would anyone ever agree to this?

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  • sushibowl@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this even legal? Like, employees must be paid minimum wage, I’m sure you can’t just get around that by calling them volunteers right?

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And what happens if they get hurt on the “job”?

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• huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sounds like a great opportunity just to fuck around, make a mess, troll. What are they gonna do? Fire me?

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Volunteer? As in “not paid”?

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Employment type”

  Should read “Not Applicable”.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shoppers did what to the Mart Recruiting Volunteers?

  Poor volunteers

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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Definitely had to do community service hours to graduate…but they weren’t at the local grocery store

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• ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why does nobody want to work? I know, we can try paying them even less!

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