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Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 10 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 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 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] 4 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Cough Reddit mods cough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Loblaws company.

Figures.

Fuck the Weston family with a rusty hacksaw.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

G A L E N

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why the fuck would anyone ever agree to this?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Volunteer? As in "not paid"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

"Employment type"

Should read "Not Applicable".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The shoppers did what to the Mart Recruiting Volunteers?

Poor volunteers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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