Voluntold

When you get volunteered to do something and your mom tells you have to.

I was voluntold to be here

by Ned,billy,Fred,whateverrrrrr August 19, 2019

voluntavery

-noun

1. uncompensated labor in the guise of volunteerism

2. mandatory volunteer work required for the successful completion of certain benchmarks in post-secondary school

3. indentured servitude that graduate professional students are subject to every semester

see also: clinicals, interns

Student 1: "So, what are you doing this summer?"

Student 2: "Being peddled into voluntavery at the occupational therapy department at the Medical Center."

by L.L. Mall October 12, 2019

Voluntold

A made up word by a teacher I have. If someone volunteers someone else, it means that you are the one presenting if you’re in a group for a project.

“I voluntold my group member. Which made me go because I can’t volunteer someone else.”

by Roblock March 9, 2021

voluntold

To be volunteered or pressured into doing something without being able to reject the request. Often occurs in situations where an employee or a military personnel is uncomfortable to reject a request from someone in a higher position--because of the implications.

A portmanteau of volunteer and told.

VP: Our break room has gotten really messy lately. I need a volunteer to help make sure it's clean. Billy, your desk is always very organized. You would make the perfect break room manager.

Billy: Umm ... sure.

Jenny (whispering): Ouch. You just got voluntold.

by HSuke July 22, 2021

Voluntary trauma

When you get to choose your trauma, it's voluntary. You get to choose what type, when and why.

Also when you voluntarily decide to trauma dump on people, you can call that voluntary trauma.

Jess: Yoo let's go to the cemetery by the school and get some voluntary trauma!
Pradhi: Sure! I've never gotten to pick my trauma before!

by pringlesking24! September 17, 2021

voluntary mandatory

Anything needed to be done is voluntary but becomes mandatory if you want to do something else.

Vaccinations for Covid are voluntary but if you wish to be employed, it is voluntary mandatory that you have to be vaccinated.

by bevanpayne September 29, 2021

voluntary canary

A voluntary canary is someone who makes a sacrifice, often publicly, in support of a personal or professional value yet stays in the situation instead of leaving. Like a canary in a coal mine, s/he is exposed to whatever happens. Unlike the canary, s/he does it voluntarily. And, it happens to rhyme.

Berkeley's Earth & Atmospheric Science Department canceled a lecture because of the invited scientist's political views. David Romps resigned from his chairmanship in protest but stayed at the school. He became a voluntary canary! We need more profs like that. Let's see if he survives in Berkeley's woke academic coal mine.

by Hugo de Naranja October 19, 2021