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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.
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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.