The people I work with are awesome.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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(Bolding mine.)

This story was awesome enough as it is, but the bolded part did it for me. Yay you!

And yay, OP! You’re good people. :slight_smile:

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I love it when random people get involved with charity.

Many years ago, I co-chaired a charity scavenger hunt. I had the brilliant idea of putting "A check made out to <our charity> as one of the items you had to find. As expected, we got a lot of checks made out for a dollar or so. A few teams upped the ante and contributed more.

One team, though, handed in five checks. They took it as a challenge, approached people on the street, and asked for donations. I would have given them bonus points for creativity if the rules allowed for it.
-D/a

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That’s an awesome story (I know the “awesome” word is overused, but in this case I like it).
We have a clerk in our plant who can’t, and won’t, get herself anything nice because there are others who she needs to support, whose boss is a really great woman herself.
This clerk is always helping us, supporting everyone in the office, doing things we can’t do ourselves and never saying no. She really goes out of her way to make sure things are done right. At the company Christmas party last week, the supervisor saw how badly the clerk wanted one of the door prizes, so the next day she went out and bought her one with her own $ (about $250), hoping we would kick in to help her, which of course we all did. I was really impressed to see this lady appreciated by all her co-workers and her boss, with more than just a pat on the back. These people-- the clerk, her boss, my co-workers who didn’t think twice about pitching in $10-$20 for a great lady-- make me like going to work!

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At work we “adopt” two families this time of the year. This year my team and another team “adopted” a family that lost everything in a Thanksgiving Day fire. People brought in new clothes, toys and gift cards.

Someone stole some of the cloths we were giving but other people in the office gave more to make up for it. We don’t advertise what we do because we don’t want the recolonization.