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Not to sound cold or heartless but I'm so sick of the people at my work always wanting to take a "collection" for someone.

I've got about 60 people in my department and anytime and I'm talking ANYTIME something comes up people are wanting you to donate money. Everything from weddings, birthdays, deaths in someones family, a person is sick and they want to buy them a plant, baby showers, etc.

It just gets on my nerves to no end. If I was to donate to all of these damn things it would literally be like an extra bill every month. If you don't donate $5 each time they give you a look like you're a cheapskate or something. I've got a some friends here at work but other than donating for them I don't think I should have to donate my hard earned money for every stinking event that comes up.

End rant.

I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

Good one, I forgot about the fundraisers. And yes people know to not even come to my desk w/ that crap!! Maybe if I didn't have to pay $15 for some chocolate covered raisins or $5 for a roll of wrapping paper I would take a look.

We actually collect all the returnables and cash them in for such things as this. Nice way to avoid the "collection" donation. Of course, Michigan's got the $0.10/container deposit too, so it's pretty lucrative; not every state has that.

NEWMAN: (peering at bottle label) What is this 'MI, ten cents'?

KRAMER: That's Michigan. In Michigan you get ten cents.

NEWMAN: Ten cents!?

KRAMER: Yeah.

NEWMAN: Wait a minute. You mean you get five cents here, and ten cents

there. You could round up bottles here and run 'em out to Michigan for the

difference.

KRAMER: No, it doesn't work.

NEWMAN: What d'you mean it doesn't work? You get enough bottles

together...

KRAMER: Yeah, you overload your inventory and you blow your margins on

gasoline. Trust me, it doesn't work.

JERRY: (re-entering) Hey, you're not talking that Michigan deposit

bottle scam again, are you?

KRAMER: No, no, I'm off that.

NEWMAN: You tried it?

KRAMER: Oh yeah. Every which way. Couldn't crunch the numbers. It drove

me crazy.

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

If I ever have kids that do fundraisers I think I would just buy the candy from them myself and give it away before peddling it to my co-workers. I would be embarrassed to ask that.

G. Keenan wrote:

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

If I ever have kids that do fundraisers I think I would just buy the candy from them myself and give it away before peddling it to my co-workers. I would be embarrassed to ask that.

The new fundraisers aren't candy bars anymore. They come around w/ a pamphlet of a bunch of overpriced crap that no one really wants or could use.

cardinalkarp wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

If I ever have kids that do fundraisers I think I would just buy the candy from them myself and give it away before peddling it to my co-workers. I would be embarrassed to ask that.

The new fundraisers aren't candy bars anymore. They come around w/ a pamphlet of a bunch of overpriced crap that no one really wants or could use.

Well I would be even more embarrassed to peddle that to my co-workers then. At least people like candy, even if they'd rather not buy it from your kids.

So what is this, kids walking around with the SkyMall catalogue or something?

G. Keenan wrote:

cardinalkarp wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

If I ever have kids that do fundraisers I think I would just buy the candy from them myself and give it away before peddling it to my co-workers. I would be embarrassed to ask that.

The new fundraisers aren't candy bars anymore. They come around w/ a pamphlet of a bunch of overpriced crap that no one really wants or could use.

Well I would be even more embarrassed to peddle that to my co-workers then. At least people like candy, even if they'd rather not buy it from your kids.

So what is this, kids walking around with the SkyMall catalogue or something?

Well, there's some candy in there but its not candy bars. Its more like a container of turtles or a box of chocolate that will run about $10-$15. Its also got a bunch of random crap you would never want along w/ a section that you can buy magazines. All of it is useless and WAY overpriced. I can see buying a candy bar for a couple bucks but don't come to me expecting me to spend $15 on some chocolate.

I think it's disgusting that schools collaborate with these junk companies to turn children into their salesmen. I never participated in these fund raisers as a child, and I think they should be thrown out of schools all together.

cardinalkarp wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:

cardinalkarp wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:

docellis wrote:I was a total jerk at my last job. When people would come with their kids fundraising stuff i would say "Take that to other people with kids, not me and please do not come asking again." Eventually (I was there 4 years) people would just skip my office. It was nice.

I haven't been so abrupt at this job, but I still won't give my money to anyone.

If I ever have kids that do fundraisers I think I would just buy the candy from them myself and give it away before peddling it to my co-workers. I would be embarrassed to ask that.

The new fundraisers aren't candy bars anymore. They come around w/ a pamphlet of a bunch of overpriced crap that no one really wants or could use.

Well I would be even more embarrassed to peddle that to my co-workers then. At least people like candy, even if they'd rather not buy it from your kids.

So what is this, kids walking around with the SkyMall catalogue or something?

Well, there's some candy in there but its not candy bars. Its more like a container of turtles or a box of chocolate that will run about $10-$15. Its also got a bunch of random crap you would never want along w/ a section that you can buy magazines. All of it is useless and WAY overpriced. I can see buying a candy bar for a couple bucks but don't come to me expecting me to spend $15 on some chocolate.

What are the kids raising money for anyway? I remember a few legit fundraisers when I was in grade school, one was selling good ol' fashioned candy bars to raise money to go to Space Camp (yeah, it was awesome), but most were just companies trying to make money by tricking kids into peddling their crap by offering them prizes.