re: #204 Scottish Dragon

You can encourage volunteerism. Mandating it means you are not a volunteer. You are uncompensated conscripted labor.

Truth be told, if I got hit with this in high school, I would arrange an ‘accident’ while I was on the job and a hospital visit to be paid by whatever outfit had me on their clock, so to speak.

You make work for free, I will arrange that you pay some other way.

Getting injured accidentally-on-purpose can come back to bite you in ways difficult to foresee.
And showing an understanding of union history would be quite civic minded, wouldn’t it? I mean, I’d relish explaining the concept of work-to-rule to any and all willing to hear. Particularly anyone else conscripted into that sort of program. Also makes for a *way* more conspicuous protest.