I don’t give money to telemarketers. Never sits right with me – giving money to a charity via a telemarketing service so that the telemarketing service gets paid for asking for money for the charity … Do I hate it? Not really. Just leaves me cold.
There’s only a few charities I’ll donate to on the street on in the mall, and none of them are pushy about it. Mainly things like the local stroke foundation. If you’re pushy – forget it. Make someone else feel guilty about your cause. I’m not interested.
I hate when schools send kids out to sell unpalatible food that is for 4 times more expensive than a good product in the store. The companies stay in bussiness, by getting charities to sell their dog food tasting crap. The kid doesn’t sell it in most cases. The multiple parents try to push it on the coworkers. I would give to a charity, I don’t buy even one thing from parents. Ever! I also think that schools have no bussiness sending students out for money raising. I think it should be considered a child labor violation.
But the hour long meetings with film strips are so much fun! Goodness knows I enjoyed being held up as a good employee to bludgeon the others in the department with! :rolleyes:
Charities that stand in the median at crossroads. Even telemarketers and sidewalk charities are not as bad as them. As a matter of fact, they are so annoying that I promised myself 4 years ago that I’d donate to the first charity I saw collecting on a sidewalk rather than in the middle of the road, but I haven’t seen one yet! (Not that I’m looking too hard…)
Not only would I have to look if they shout something at me, they also clog the intersection when someone wants to donate. I’m surprised there aren’t more accidents involving them.
School organizations that solict donations to watch hot, half-naked teenage girls get wet . . . I mean, carwashes. Normally, that’s the sort of fund-raiser I like–low overhead, lots of elbow grease, actual useful service–and when the kids wear t-shirts and shorts, it’s fine. But when the cheerleaders are in bathing suit tops and short-shorts standing in the road waving a sign, it seriously creeps me out, especially when it’s a student I know for a fact is 14.
At the last place I worked, the company expected 100% participation in the United Way drives. I actually had to go into my bosses office and explain the reasons why I wouldn’t donate to United Way.
I hate when you give to a charity and they see it as an excuse to call you over and over. I wrote a check at an American Cancer Society garage sale once and they still call to bug me.
On the other hand, I have never given a dime to the Lupus Foundation, and they call several times a week, sometimes. I see them on my Caller ID just about every day. I can only imagine what would happen if I did give them something.
Right now, it’s kids standing in intersections during my drive home that are really pissing me off.
It’s real simple - I DO NOT give money to people standing in the street. Period. Never. Because I have no way to know if these guys are legit or not.
Why the hell does a local high school basketball team have to stand in the street begging for uniform money, anyhow? I know damn well there are local businesses willing to help subsidize sports teams - you see their names on the uniforms. They can advertise on the radio for donations, or in the papers. Or something. But having kids dancing in and out of traffic? Whose dumb idea was that?
Unless, of course, it’s all a scam…
I don’t give to people over the phone. I don’t give to people on the street - not even cute little kids. I don’t give to people standing in malls, grocery stores, or basically any other place of that nature.
I would call the school and tell them that the students are soliciting funds in the street. In case the school thinks this aceptable, the city police will not. They will ensure the school doesn’t send out kids to stand in a road.
I’m surprised that nobody’s mentioned it, but I hate the whole “send you something for free so that you feel guilty enough to donate” tactic. There’s one that bombs us with free greeting cards and return address stickers on a weekly basis trying to guilt us into sending them some money. To make matters worse, the art is usually done with adorably amateur, heart-wrenching crayon artwork by the kids in need, complete with “Thankz for yoor sapport - it meens sew much tew us!” by Cancer Kids or something like that.
Anyone who sells my name to other charities that then deluge me with letters that assume I’m a conservative Christian and shower me with enameled pins of Mary, plastic Christmas brooches, and the like. I have had some cordial but firm words with Habitat for Humanity, which is the worst offender.
Preach it. My last principal was like that, and so was the Superintendent. It took the mentioning of legal action to get them to stop pressuring me about it.
Oooh, pity the poor employee stuck with being the United Way tout. Nothing says that your job is unnecessary like getting that assignment.
I donated $20 to the ACLU on the street during a period of particularly egregious destruction of the constitution by this administration. I made the mistake of giving them my address, because I thought the newsletter would be interesting. Plus, I could become a card carrying member of the ACLU. They’ve spent $100 sending me mailers for more money. It makes me sad for the environment.
B*gger those street goons who walk into your way to get money off you. I had one try and stop a long line of foreign students I was trying to take on a tour of the university (we were running late too) Girl was told, “sorry, foreign students running late here on a tour” but as soon as my back was turned she started stopping them one by one :rolleyes:
I don’t accept unsolicited phone calls. From any company, even charities.
I don’t run into the street charities, but would probably not give.
It pisses me off when I donate to a charity - especially when I donate a fixed amount each month - and they send me a “thank you” with and added suggestion that I donate 10 times my last donation by a certain date. It comes off like a bill and I have stopped giving to certain charities because of it.
