The GOODS from The Irish Heather
Vancouver, BC | Looking for volunteers to pit fresh organic apricots from 7pm to 9pm, this Thursday at the Irish Heather’s Long Table. You and as many as 40 other guests will pit apricots for 2 hours. In return you’ll receive 2 pints of Phillips Blue Buck Ale and at 9pm we’ll feed you a delicious meal (see menu below). You’ll also get a 1lb bag of Okanagan Cherries to take home. If you’d like to help us process this 800lb harvest from the Similkameen Valley, please email [email protected]. Menu after the jump
Menu
Pulled Pork, Buttermilk Biscuit, Tomato & Corn Relish, Fried Okra, Slow Cooked Kale
or
Roasted Artichoke, Spinach & Turnip Tart, Sautéed Rapini, Crispy Onions (vegetarian)
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Speak my mind? Thanks, I will. This feels uncomfortably like exploitation. Why not just hire some students or folks in the hood to do the job for minimum wage? If this were a non-profit organization I’d feel a lot different, but come on Mr. Heather, you can do better.
Exploitation when they’re getting beers, a full meal and a good time? It’s actually good fun, so I’m not so sure that I follow. Did you read the full post?
this event sounds fantastic – I would so do it if I didn’t have plans tmo. A chance to help preserve local food that can be enjoyed all winter, plus a great meal and some brews. Yum!
If that is exploitation, I will happily be exploited.
@Mildy shocked. Sigh. It must be a chore to be you. A couple beers and a nice dinner and you can maybe meet some new people and chat? That sounds like exploitation to me. Double sigh.
@ Mildly shocked… there is always some goof ball like you around…
Just so you are aware, people have free will, they can do what they please…
When people have been INVITED to join/with and socialize with like minded people to do something food related and offered, as an inducement, a nice meal and a couple of beers… they are not being exploited, they are going out to have some fun and a few laughs.
I dont know what kind of life you lead… but i bet it sucks.
Word is they’re full for the night (of exploitees). Suckers.
The only one who’s losing out in this scenario is the taxman — I’m pretty sure no one’s going to claim their “two pints & dinner” on their income tax returns!
Beyond that, it seems pretty straight up (and I’m kind of regretting not checking Scout yesterday…). This is a one-time thing, no one’s losing their job because of people working for food instead of cash, and the people working for food are probably mostly doing it for fun. If a restaurant was regularly convincing local panhandlers and other desperate folk to work a full shift in return for a meal, that would be exploitation. This is just creative marketing.
Now if you want to fight exploitation, maybe set your eyes on many cultural industries where newcomers are supposed to work multiple unpaid (or paid with a below-minimum wage “honorarium”) internships before being eligible for real jobs…