No! No! NO! I am NOT signing up for a payroll deduction or UW this year! Stop bugging me about it already!
We’re trying for 100% compliance this year. You’re a team player, aren’t you?
GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
I’m crushing your head!!!
What’s bugging you, United Way itself, or being pressured to contribute? Personally, I find it a headache-free way to give. I never even see the money.
About all I’ve ever done is what I did this year: $5 to buy a lottery ticket. Two of the prizes are new laptops.
I hate it much less once I realized I could direct my donation to an org that I give to anyway. Now I just make my annual donation to them through UW at work. Everybody wins!
Isn’t that when you have the woman on top, thrust so hard you launch her off the bed and yell “Something Special In The Air!”?
The only way I could stop the dunning notices demanding compliance with the UW campaign last year was to sign up for a $0 deduction. Now my name was on the roster and they stopped bugging me, but I still felt dirty.
I’ll give without the middleman, thank you very much.
Sending an evelope full of cash care of Donald Trump “to use as you best see fit” would have about equal merit.
Stranger
Get back to me when you’re at 99.9%
Only if I can be Captain.
Tell them you already donate on your own.
I refuse to donate to UW after a pitch they gave, where the guy was talking about this kid that had been molested and put in a foster home, where he was molested there, and how that was a good thing, because it moved him to the top of The List and they could help him.
:eek: :rolleyes:
Why do you say?
I had a six-week temp job at a United Way office back in 1998. After that up-close, rather Danteesque tour of incompetence, laziness, waste, and borderline deceit, I will never, ever give them a dime.
Granted, I don’t know if all of their offices are run the same way that (very large) one was. But the hideous mismanagement, dispirited employees, and near-total lack of concern for the charitable mission of the outfit certainly appeared to have morphed from “occasional slacking” into “corporate culture,” and were clearly deep-rooted way before I came along.
And the coffee sucked.
Also, as I understand it, even if the organization ran well, you could contribute to your charity directly and they just get your money or contribute through UW and your charity gets your donation minus $X for administrative costs and such.
Don’t want to donate? Simple solution: “Thanks but no thanks. I’m not donating. Don’t bother me about it or I’ll inform the UW about your non-compliance with their policies. Thanks, goodbye.”
Not only that, but they only had these teeny weeny cups to put it in.
Bullshit!!!
UW takes a cut and then give a little bit more to the other charities to even things out.
Fuck the UW. They have never gotten a cent out of me and they never will.
That’s exactly the way the conversation would go if I were to say this to my boss.
Especially the last sentence.
Back in '86 I got labeled a troublemaker for not contributing to the United “Charitable Thievery” Way. I was in the Navy and they were trying hard for 100% compliance. I refused as such a huge percentage of UW money went to overhead. I have always hated them and their heavy handed wasteful tactics.
Good for you Inigo Montoya, do not give in. Tell them “I give to charities of my own choosing, and please do not contribute in my name, I would resent it”.
Jim
In the Navy, I declined giving through UW. When asked why, my response was, “Personal reasons.”
Now, I’m bowing out of this thread because it’s just going to get ugly and I don’t care to read the horse apples that, no doubt, are going to be posted.