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Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 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.

[–] adam_y 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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.

[–] Son_of_dad 9 points 7 months ago

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

[–] someguy3 5 points 7 months ago

Cough Reddit mods cough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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.

[–] nman90 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Sanctus 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Volunteer? As in no pay? And people applied?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] grue 18 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] teamevil 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yo I never got paid as an intern

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

While highly abused, internships are narrowly defined by law as educational and not the same as volunteering. I've also never heard of high schools requiring them. Usually a requirement for some college/uni degrees.

[–] Sanctus 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] newthrowaway20 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah if you're gonna volunteer, do it for something less soul crushing. You got the rest of your life for the soul crushing work.

[–] Sanctus 3 points 7 months ago

Can recommend cleanup crews. It feels good to remove tonnes of waste from the environment.

[–] radicalautonomy 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you do it to get your diploma? Or did you do it to maintain membership in the National Honor Society or the Student Council or some such?

[–] Sanctus 1 points 7 months ago

It was a specific class at community college. I'm pretty sure it was some sort of "college success" course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

This seems to have been in Canada

[–] Delphia 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Good point haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For the glory of the Mammon!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A Loblaws company.

Figures.

Fuck the Weston family with a rusty hacksaw.

[–] psmgx 8 points 7 months ago

G A L E N

[–] Son_of_dad 33 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Worse, they “need” pros.

Your position as a volunteer is crucial in ensuring that our customers have a positive experience.

Crucial, huh? Then fucking pay them.

[–] Dasus 7 points 7 months ago

"It's crucial we get free labour so we can keep making record profits for no work at all."

[–] Starkstruck 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why the fuck would anyone ever agree to this?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Burninator05 10 points 7 months ago

And what happens if they get hurt on the "job"?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Treczoks 10 points 7 months ago

Volunteer? As in "not paid"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

"Employment type"

Should read "Not Applicable".

[–] Tylerdurdon 5 points 7 months ago

The shoppers did what to the Mart Recruiting Volunteers?

Poor volunteers

[–] teamevil 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When this was originally posted, someone noted that the job listing had been pulled, and suggested that the person entering it into the database had accidentally selected the wrong pay field.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The role description describes it as a volunteer role, using the word volunteer three times. So unless they have AI posting these without proofreading I'll assume they meant what they wrote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is not the first time this has been posted (the "job" ad) so ether they are looking for free work (and belong in this part of lemmy) or are so incompetent to make the same mistake again (and belong in this part of lemmy).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It may not be the first time this was posted, but from what I can tell it's all been the exact same image being posted - ie, all from one source ad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not the post but the ad has been posted more then once.