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.
Volunteer? As in no pay? And people applied?
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.
This seems to have been in Canada
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.
Yo I never got paid as an intern
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.
Not for a fucking for-profit business, it isn't!
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.
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?
It was a specific class at community college. I'm pretty sure it was some sort of "college success" course.
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.
Can recommend cleanup crews. It feels good to remove tonnes of waste from the environment.