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Wanted: Slave labor to work in the fields

This is an actual help wanted ad.

By Destro

Business • April 2013 • Views: 1,863

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Roberta’s pizza, arguably the most famous pizza place in New York City (even the Clintons ate there!) is seeking unpaid interns to work in the garden.

A Craigslist posting, that has since been removed from the site but can be found here, describes what the intern will be doing.

“Job/activities will include producing fruits, vegetables and edible flowers … Help maintain our bee hives as well as harvest honey.”

There’s no pay, but there’s free pizza during ever shift.

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Slave Labor

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13 comments

Christopher's Bitchins Thu, Apr 11, 2013 8:52:01am

But we don’t need unions! We have plenty of labor laws to protect us! /s

Skip Intro Thu, Apr 11, 2013 9:03:16am

I”m betting the free pizza they get is what the paying customers leave on the plate.

Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Apr 11, 2013 10:00:43am

So I am guessing that since its classed as an unpaid internship this is 100 percent legal?

Romantic Heretic Thu, Apr 11, 2013 10:50:49am

Hey! Slaves improve the bottom line. That’s the only important thing. ///

calochortus Thu, Apr 11, 2013 12:28:13pm

It’s silly, but it’s hardly slave labor. They’re asking for volunteers and people are free to sign up for it or not as they choose.
Whether it is in compliance with labor law is a question I can’t answer.

Destro Thu, Apr 11, 2013 1:03:47pm

re: #5 calochortus

It’s silly, but it’s hardly slave labor. They’re asking for volunteers and people are free to sign up for it or not as they choose.
Whether it is in compliance with labor law is a question I can’t answer.

Indentured Servitude then?

calochortus Thu, Apr 11, 2013 1:49:02pm

re: #6 Destro

Indentured Servitude then?

Were there articles of indenture referred to in the ad? Still sounds more like Tom Sawyer and whitewashing the fence to me. :)

Christopher's Bitchins Thu, Apr 11, 2013 2:20:47pm

re: #5 calochortus

This is America, you get paid actual money for a hard days work here, at least you used to. Unless it is a charity where no one is making any money this should be illegal. Even if it isn’t illegal it is still wrong and exploitative.

calochortus Thu, Apr 11, 2013 2:47:09pm

re: #8 Christopher’s Bitchins

I’m not sure who is being exploited unless they are promising something other than free pizza, like a leg up on a real job. That would be exploitative.

I would just think people would laugh at the offer and move on, but perhaps there is something I’m missing. And as I said before, I have no idea whether an “internship” of that nature is legal.

danarchy Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:25:24pm

I think I am with Calochortus on this one. It is a neighborhood business that has a an urban garden which they probably only run a few months a year anyhow. It sounds like they already employ a gardener which is really all you need for a lot that size. I think more than anything they were thinking “hey, wouldn’t it be nice if we could teach some of the neighborhood kids how to tend a garden”

Plus they are throwing in free pizza. I don’t know, stop by for a couple hours after school, learn how to garden and get free food doesn’t exactly sound like slavery to me. It isn’t exactly busting your hump 10 hours a day out in the field picking fruit.

Destro Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:31:04pm

re: #9 calochortus

re: #10 danarchy

Taken in isolation it sounds like its not that big a deal but if you read about such things you would find that the internship program has become pretty much a slave labor force in these hard times. Above that level is the trend of hiring of employees on a part time basis to prevent benefits being paid. Last but not least is making full time employees do more work for less pay.

Aligarr Fri, Apr 12, 2013 10:34:20am

Man this is the land if DIAPPEARING POSTS ! So I’ll repeat what ” SOMEONE ” FOUND necessarry to delete .

What if Roberta’s owners get paid in pizza pies .[parahrased]

-man that was a real nasty post huh ? I’m hoping there was a technical reason, or LGF’s little watcdogs have rocks in their heads .

wrenchwench Fri, Apr 12, 2013 11:20:42am

re: #12 Aligarr

Man this is the land if DIAPPEARING POSTS ! So I’ll repeat what ” SOMEONE ” FOUND necessarry to delete .

What if Roberta’s owners get paid in pizza pies .[parahrased]

-man that was a real nasty post huh ? I’m hoping there was a technical reason, or LGF’s little watcdogs have rocks in their heads .

If you had a post deleted, it must have been on another thread. They don’t disappear, they show this: [deleted]

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