Interestingly in some jurisdictions this may be illegal. I am United Kingdom. A friend worked at a medium size music festival (not Glastonbury but not just someone’s backyard). For a long time the deal.wqs.just a free ticket and food tickets for 8hrs work a day for the 3featival days and a day either side setup and takedown. As the festival made more profit for the owners the tax man got interested and found the ticket and food was less than minimum wage and started that the benefit of getting to see the whole thing and be communtity" was just the ticket price no matter what the “volunteers” said.
Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.
Literally.always been the way.
Interestingly in some jurisdictions this may be illegal. I am United Kingdom. A friend worked at a medium size music festival (not Glastonbury but not just someone’s backyard). For a long time the deal.wqs.just a free ticket and food tickets for 8hrs work a day for the 3featival days and a day either side setup and takedown. As the festival made more profit for the owners the tax man got interested and found the ticket and food was less than minimum wage and started that the benefit of getting to see the whole thing and be communtity" was just the ticket price no matter what the “volunteers” said.