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Posted: 6/10/2005 1:12:29 PM EDT
Now. Please.
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guess i am gonna disagree with you here. I get pestered at work all day everyday by well meaning drones wanting money for this and money for that. When i come into your store buy something i really don't want to get hit up for it yet again. i have charities i donate to and that is all. No i won't be an asshole about it, but sometimes it REALLY gets old. if i gave just a dollar to every one that asked for "just a dollar" i'd have about .25 to live on. |
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Another mild disagreement here. While its *NOT* ok to act like an asshole (a simple "No, thank you" is sufficient) it *DOES* get tiring to see and be hit up for donations. I know that there are worthy charities out there but you can only be hit up so many times before the frustration level rises. |
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What about the bum (read: residentially challenged) at your local metropolitan major intersection (Houston in my case) thats trying to clean your windshield with a bottle of W I politely tell them to get the fuck away from the truck. |
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| I used to work as a cashier at a grocery store and the way I see it, if someone wanted to donate money to whatever charity we were sponsoring, they would. We had flyers up all over the store and at eye lever at the registers. It's not like it wasn't there for everyone to see. I never mentioned it and had quite a few people that donated money to the charity. |
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Just one freeking dollar? I used to live on $40 per week for grocery when I was going to University. One dollar was a lot of money for me... thats enough for a dozen large eggs or 2 packs of Kraft mac and cheese or a loaf of white bread or almost half pound of really cheap ground beef on sale. |
and that is perfectly acceptable and fine. it the in your face stuff that pisses me off. |
Right there is my situation. On top of that being hassled by pan handlers to and from work does not help. |
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It's not the dollar so much as my general disdain for humanity that makes me sneer at these people. I don't want to help people. If god wanted these people to live, they wouldn't be dying, would they? Of course, all of that is moot with regards to most charities. It's not like any of this money actually makes it to helping people. When charities are run like corporations, their only focus is on how to maximize income. Rarely does that mean helping anyone out. I don't care of they're tax exempt, they're no better than televangelists selling salvation. |
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I'm really fucking sick of going into a retail store, and then getting bugged at the checkout line by some cashier to drop "Just a Dollar" for whatever scam they have going that week ... Pet stores. Pharmacies, Fast Food restaurants ... they are all the same ... No, I'm not giving you a dollar. Sure it's ONE DOLLAR, but where does it go? And why should I contribute to some Corporate Charity, where a tiny percentage actually makes it back to the charity that they are claiming to help. I donate to plenty of charities, and I check out every one of them first through the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance. If they aren't listed there, or don't assure a reasonable percentage actually makes it to the chaiities I do not give. After all why should I pay ANYTHING so a bunch of socialites can throw some extravagant fundraising dinner and pat each other on the back about what good people they are. |
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Wow, seems like everyone here was 18 kinds of pissed about the Salvation Army kettle deal, and this is different.......how? It's a buck, and every retailer on God's sweet green does this a few times a year. All we do is ask, all you should do is say yes or no. Disgusted displays of disdain while your money spills all about are really not required. 
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100% of *all* money donated to our particular thing go *directly* to the charity, plus a corporate match. People who have bothered to ask me this have been told this, and have been quite pleased to hear this. |
i don't like the salvation army kettles either. i stopped donating to the kettles when they started hiring bell ringer at 10.00 per hour. i think what your missing here is that most of us get hit up 5-10 times a day for just about everything. bubba's kids school needs toilet paper, betsy's kid needs cheerleading money, mandatory united way donations to the employer, by the time we get off work and stop by a store we have had our fill of that stuff. It's nothing personal please don't think it is. When it was only seen a few times a year it wasn't a big deal. Now it is 365 days a year most of us get bombarded with it. i don't have a problem with signs posted, but when it's pushed and the retail clerk looks at you like a cheap fucker when you say no it really pisses me off. |
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Well I was in the drugstore today and some little girlscout came up and tapped me on the shoulder. me: what do you want little lady girlscout: mmmmm....bout tree fiddy Well about that time I noticed this girlscout had herslef a big old green tale and and after a second take I noticed this wasnt no girlscout but infact it was the lochness monster! I told that monster, " I aint givin you no damn tree fiddy monster!" He'll never learn |
The Salvation Army doesn't ASK YOU everytime they see you to donate. You know what they do? They open doors for you. They tell you, "Merry Christmas, Sir!" and "Have a good day, Sir!". WHEN you give to them, they graciously thank you and still include the "Merry Christmas, Sir!" and "Have a good day, Sir!" That being said, they're my charity. That's who I give to, and I give multiple times during the holiday season when I'm out. I also donate goods to them via their clothing drop boxes, etc. BUT, I could walk past 2000 of those red kettle folks in a year's time, and they would NEVER ask if I'd like to drop some money in the bucket. THAT, is the way it's done. |
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Granted its only one dollar, but I donate over 2000.00 a year to various charities around town. I don't like when people put you under the gun to give one dollar to this, round up to the nearest dollar for this, donate your change to this. If I want to donate I will contact you. Not the other way around. I want to go into a store and buy what I want and leave. JMO. |
It was not a subject change. My thread was about the outlandish ways people display thier miserable little personalities while saying "no". It was permuted into this diatribe against the concept as a whole, and I'm actually quite surprised by the responses. It is not childish to just retract the whole thing, and I wish someone would do just that. Sorry this thread isn't about zombies. |
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I do not mind disagreement, I have grown used to it. It's the vitriole, which was my original point. |
Bwaaaaa ha ha ha!
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I understand what the point you are trying to make is. But how do you feel when you go into a store and this happens to you? Be honest. |