the (implied) social contract around volunteering is "everything" .. here in California I was bluntly told by my Japanese colleague "never volunteer, you are be

the (implied) social contract around volunteering is "everything" .. here in California I was bluntly told by my Japanese colleague "never volunteer, you are being taken advantage of" true to his words, the only volunteer contact I got with that guy later was to be an usher at an exclusive dot-com event in San Francisco, pre-covid.. I did do it to hear the speakers, and lo-and-behold, the organizers mostly thought of the volunteers as worthless suckers.. you could see it. And, volunteers got the 'show up on time' authority talk from a typical hotel-worker-manager type, too! awful