Mooboo: work a week for no pay for a zero-hour contract minimum-wage job!

[nearwildheaven]

@Czarcasm

It’s like Orbitz all over again.

I actually liked Orbitz.

[Mr.Miskatonic]

@WillFarnaby

Poor people are doing it to gain a foothold in a low-paying job. Magnanimous and compassionate liberals must protect “these people” from themselves.

Now that we’ve heard from the ‘bring back the plantations!’ crowd. :rolleyes:

Unpaid internships are when people with well-off families are working for free to gain a foothold in a high-paying or otherwise desirable career.

Now if this company is not effectively communicating the nature of the employment situation with the workers, there may be a valid complaint. Otherwise, it is a mutually agreed-upon arrangement in which both parties believe they are better off participating than not participating.

If the terms weren’t in the first or second paragraph of the want ad, I’d say this was deception. I’d be pissed if I showed up for an interview and was told this was how it works.

[WillFarnaby]

@Mr.Miskatonic

Now that we’ve heard from the ‘bring back the plantations!’ crowd. :rolleyes:

If the terms weren’t in the first or second paragraph of the want ad, I’d say this was deception. I’d be pissed if I showed up for an interview and was told this was how it works.

Bring back the plantations? The slavers thought they had to take care of their slaves because they were too stupid to prosper without them. Remind you of anyone?

[nearwildheaven]

@Calatin

My friend had a similar arrangement. “Shadowed” (read: worked) a manager along with a few other interviewees and had to do tasks. It was made clear that this was an interview, and he would not be compensated for his time or effort. They carpooled to numerous sites as part of the job, with the manager driving.

At the time they took a late lunch at a fast food restaurant, my friend made it clear that he was misled as to the job, and that he didn’t think it’d be a good fit. The manager said that he didn’t have time to take my friend back to his car, and he’d have to get an Uber back to the company HQ, as the manager was on a tight schedule.

Even if he would have stuck it out for the full day, he wouldn’t have been compensated for working.

He REALLY figured out that this job was not for him, in more than one way! :eek: :mad:

Kimstu, you are right, and it doesn’t sound like this job meets your criteria either.

[Ludovic]

@WillFarnaby

The slavers thought they had to take care of their slaves because they were too stupid to prosper without them.

That must be why they made it illegal for them to get educated.

[Gatopescado]

@nearwildheaven

So, what do they do? (or did)

Sorry to keep you hangin’…

They would hire you for “Management Training”, which translated into “hours and hours of unpaid overtime, heaps of responsibility beyond the pay grade and general shitty working conditions”.

Then, around Christmas time, the only time you might actually make a buck or two, they cut the commission rate, loaded up a bunch of untrained part-timers and further butt-fucked all employees.

So glad that place is toast.

[Quartz]

An update: Mooboo have climbed down.

[Flyer]

@JcWoman

Sure, but then there’s this:

That’s quite some assholery, right there.

Why? The manager arranged his schedule for the day using certain parameters. Why should he have to change his schedule, and potentially get in trouble with his boss, simply because the other person changed his mind mid-stream?

[Pantastic]

@Alessan

How is it different from an unpaid internship?

It’s not; most unpaid internship jobs in the US are illegal, but it doesn’t get enforced often since the people in those jobs put their future career at risk by complaining. An internship must be paid unless “The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;” so any job where the intern is doing actual useful work (even basic stuff like being the one sent out to grab coffee) legally should be paid at least minimum wage.