I don't like it when grocery stores are constantly asking for donations - Page 2

JD159 · 03-08-2018, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

Except if she had coughed up a $50, I would have matched it.....jackass!

50 dollars to you probably means a lot more to them. Given that they are a cashier, and you are on a Porsche forum .

sammyg2 · 09:12 AM

Unfortunately there is such thing as a business degree, one of the easiest degrees to get.

*

So they get a job and want to impress the boss with some new idea or program, and the only thing they can come up with is a new way to screw or otherwise inconvenience their customers.
brilliant.

*disclaimer: i'm an engineer who happens to have a business degree.

Seahawk · 09:35 AM

You know what I hate: The goddamned Girl Scouts humping cookies outside every goddamned store in the county!

Birth control, People, birth control.

I mean for the love of god, how dare they make me look them in the eye and tell them to **** off...it is child prostitution for cripes sake.

And the only thing thin about the fat mothers standing behind the little trolls is the Thin Mint cookie crumbs on their K-Mart sweaters.

What is their website, anyway: www.cookiewhores.com!?!

All green ink.

Here is what I say to the cashiers and Girl Scouts: No thanks. Bye.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 03-08-2018, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

Except if she had coughed up a $50, I would have matched it.....jackass!

She's a cashier. She's as relevant to the donation request as the Massengill on aisle 5.

Listen, clearly you are having regrets about treating the cashier rudely, you posted here needing some affirmation from fellow self-absorbed, bitter millennials to ease your pain.

Here's what you need to do. Go back to the store, hopefully she'll be working. Buy something or just go to her register and apologize for being rude. Simple. And you'll feel better. It's all about feelings with you millennials. You'll feel better and she'll have another story about this dick to tell to her friends.

onewhippedpuppy · 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by legion

One of my biggest problems with this is that I have no chance to vet the charity at a cash register and it is often not clear where your money will really go. It is not uncommon for charities with seemingly noncontroversial aims to in turn make donations to charities with clear political ideologies. I can cite several examples of this. Susan G. Komen makes large donations to Planned Parenthood. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), is not affiliated with local Humane Societies and is really a front group for PETA. It is also not uncommon for charities to pay their executives and staffs lavish salaries (and benefits, and travel) and spend very little on their actual cause. It's too easy for a seemingly innocuous request to actually fund something that I vehemently oppose.

This is it for me, lots of charities are really borderline scams. I donate to charity but it's those that I research and choose, not the ones the grocery store guilt trips me into.

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Originally Posted by Seahawk

You know what I hate: The goddamned Girl Scouts humping cookies outside every goddamned store in the county!

Birth control, People, birth control.

I mean for the love of god, how dare they make me look them in the eye and tell them to **** off...it is child prostitution for cripes sake.

And the only thing thin about the fat mothers standing behind the little trolls is the Thin Mint cookie crumbs on their K-Mart sweaters.

What is their website, anyway: www.cookiewhores.com!?!

All green ink.

Here is what I say to the cashiers and Girl Scouts: No thanks. Bye.

My daughter was a Girl Scout for a year, you know what those bastards do? They allot you with XXX boxes of cookies, then you have to pick up the cookies and write them a check. Now they become MY cookies that I have to sell to make MY money back. Eff that! Even worse is that now I have a crate full of Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Patties sitting in my dining room, who can resist THAT?

My daughter, btw, did not whore out said cookies in front of the grocery store. The few that I didn't eat went to friends and family. Then the gross ones went to work, because engineers will eat anything.

scottmandue · 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by scottmandue

Also agree the complaining to the cashier is pointless, like complaining about gas prices to the guy working at the gas station.

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

That makes 2 dicks on this thread then.

FWIW I give the cashiers a polite no thank you too.

KFC911 · 03-08-2018, 09:57 AM

I just give the cashier two Franklns and only buy 10 boxes of Thin Mints at a time...

WTF is wrong with you folks?

I drive a porch

scottmandue · 03-08-2018, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk

You know what I hate: The goddamned Girl Scouts humping cookies outside every goddamned store in the county!

Birth control, People, birth control.

I mean for the love of god, how dare they make me look them in the eye and tell them to **** off...it is child prostitution for cripes sake.

And EVERYTIME I go to the store! I mean how many times do they expect me to buy cookies?

I just tell them I'm diabetic and they recoil in horror as if I'm contagious.

Actuality I tell them the truth "my wife buys the cookies in our house" she was a den mother back in the day... you know back when they would send young girls out alone selling cookies door to door? (my wife would escort her daughter)

Tidybuoy · 03-08-2018, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

She's a cashier. She's as relevant to the donation request as the Massengill on aisle 5.

Listen, clearly you are having regrets about treating the cashier rudely, you posted here needing some affirmation from fellow self-absorbed, bitter millennials to ease your pain.

Here's what you need to do. Go back to the store, hopefully she'll be working. Buy something or just go to her register and apologize for being rude. Simple. And you'll feel better. It's all about feelings with you millennials. You'll feel better and she'll have another story about this dick to tell to her friends.

My God Shaun! You've got some hostility issues.

I posted this thread today out of sheer boredom. After reading a week's worth of "do you fart in an elevator, funeral, dentist office, workplace, etc..., then reading a thread about donating to pan handlers and virtually everyone (except me stating "hell no"), I thought I would just add another useless topic only to bet trashed by you and others.

Go to Hell, all of you!! I will do whatever the FU@$ I want and complain about if if I want to - It's my Party! And for the record, I'm a baby boomer, not a millennial. I also voted for Trump - how's that? And yes, she's a casher, maybe I am one too. Because of you, I'm going back to that store tonight and I'm gonna really be rude!

VINMAN · 03-08-2018, 10:35 AM

ZERO reason to take it out on the cashier. She just doing her job, that I'm sure she gets paid ***** to do in the first place.

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Danimal16 · 03-08-2018, 10:53 AM

The two really cute cashiers have moved away. And the two pretty cashiers my age, retired. I got to know them really well and envy their husbands. All four of them became members of the neighborhood. They knew me. They just didn't ask anymore. But the best one was when Carrie approached me once but saying, "Still giving to your favorite charity?" Which made me chuckle. Those cashiers are just doing their job, I get that very well.

Danimal16 · 03-08-2018, 10:56 AM

Oh, by the by, this thread is the EXACT example of why we should use green font!

scottmandue · 03-08-2018, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

Go to Hell, all of you!! I will do whatever the FU@$ I want and complain about if if I want to - It's my Party! And for the record, I'm a baby boomer, not a millennial. I also voted for Trump - how's that? And yes, she's a casher, maybe I am one too. Because of you, I'm going back to that store tonight and I'm gonna really be rude!

Hey now, you're not the boss of me! I'll go where I darn well want to!!!!

And you should go back to the store and fart in her general direction!

vash · vash's Garage

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

My daughter was a Girl Scout for a year, you know what those bastards do? They allot you with XXX boxes of cookies, then you have to pick up the cookies and write them a check. Now they become MY cookies that I have to sell to make MY money back. Eff that! .

i didnt know that!! now i dont feel guilty when i walk by avoiding eye contact. the cutie already made her quota thanks to the parents. phew!!

sammyg2 · 03-08-2018, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

This is it for me, lots of charities are really borderline scams. I donate to charity but it's those that I research and choose, not the ones the grocery store guilt trips me into.

My daughter was a Girl Scout for a year, you know what those bastards do? They allot you with XXX boxes of cookies, then you have to pick up the cookies and write them a check. Now they become MY cookies that I have to sell to make MY money back. Eff that! Even worse is that now I have a crate full of Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Patties sitting in my dining room, who can resist THAT?

My daughter, btw, did not whore out said cookies in front of the grocery store. The few that I didn't eat went to friends and family. Then the gross ones went to work, because engineers will eat anything.

Which leads to the next pet peeve:
soliciting sales at work.

There was a time when I would get hit up at least twice a day at work to buy cookies, candy bars, assorted cashews, you name it. All sorts of over-priced stuff.

I outlawed that practice in my department and others soon followed.
it wasn't long before it became a company edict.
keep work at work and home at home.

sammyg2 · 03-08-2018, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

That makes 2 dicks on this thread then.

Wanna bet?

Tidybuoy · 12:19 PM

I love Girl Scout Cookis so I'm usually happy when they are there.

On another subject, I hate it when they ask me to open a credit card to save 10-15%. I generally answer this question with "What's the interest rate? They almost never know the answer. Then I say no thanks, I don't carry any revolving debt. Of course, Shaun will probably tell me I'm a Jack Ass.....Hey Shaun, I know!!