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Originally Posted by cstreit
Have you tried saying "No?"
Boy Scouts are similar to this and it drives me crazy. I don't mind contributing to the organization but we don't have days free to sit outside the grocery store while people pretend not to notice us. Kudo's to the families that do, but if I had that kinda free time, well...
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This.
A coworker told me about a local little league that tried an interesting stunt:
Families that were deemed by the league as "affluent" were told they had to raise a certain amount of additional sponsorship $$, or pay it themselves.
This was above and beyond all the fees they were already required to pay. I believe it was something like an extra $125.
They said it was "necessary so that families that couldn't afford to pay the fees could still participate.
Evidently their selection process including driving by the family's residence and taking a picture. then the couple who invented this scam looked at the pictures and decided if the family could afford to pay extra or not.
My coworker made one call to the little league HQ and that little stunt was stopped dead in it's tracks and the people who came up with it were replaced.
That's the problem with things like this: any time people are involved, you have people involved.
And people suck more than anybody
