Spiky Bugger
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…children’s fundraising?
ICYMI, I hate USING kids to solicit funds for stuff that (I feel) we, as a country of allegedly civilized people should be DELIGHTED to pay taxes to pay for. Like medical services for kids with cancer.
And, as a former (it was VERY short-lived tenure) Sales Director for a Girl Scout venue, back when the cookies sold for $2.00/box and the cute little sales girls‘ troops got only 25¢ a box, and the office staff was wined and dined by the competing bakeries and staff helped themselves to CASES of cookies to take home…back then…my dislike turned to detesting the whole mess.
THAT SAID…how do you feel about receiving something like this, with the name of a kid you know/are related to, but sent by a professional firm?
The first email? The second? The third? (It‘s the company doing this, not the kids.)
I’m so old, a fundraising goal of $500 means to me you DO something, wash cars, mow lawns, take out the widowed lady’s trash cans…to EARN it your own damned self. A goal of begging for $500 is not impressive to me.
Am I the only one?
ICYMI, I hate USING kids to solicit funds for stuff that (I feel) we, as a country of allegedly civilized people should be DELIGHTED to pay taxes to pay for. Like medical services for kids with cancer.
And, as a former (it was VERY short-lived tenure) Sales Director for a Girl Scout venue, back when the cookies sold for $2.00/box and the cute little sales girls‘ troops got only 25¢ a box, and the office staff was wined and dined by the competing bakeries and staff helped themselves to CASES of cookies to take home…back then…my dislike turned to detesting the whole mess.
THAT SAID…how do you feel about receiving something like this, with the name of a kid you know/are related to, but sent by a professional firm?
The first email? The second? The third? (It‘s the company doing this, not the kids.)
I’m so old, a fundraising goal of $500 means to me you DO something, wash cars, mow lawns, take out the widowed lady’s trash cans…to EARN it your own damned self. A goal of begging for $500 is not impressive to me.
Am I the only one?