Isn there something blantantly wrong with a company that you pretty much enjoy working for, pressures you to donate to a specific charity?
At my company we’re forced to work on company time to help the charity that the boss’ idiot son works for, when we should be doing our own work for paying clients. Even the people at the charity make fun of him and admit they’re using him to get free work from his dad’s employees. Wish our option was to give a few bucks instead.
I recently interviewed at a company that allowed employees to wear jeans on Fridays, provided they gave $5 every Friday to a company specified charity. I give to a few chariities that I have picked on my own, and when offered the job, I chose another based on this. I don’t know, I don’t think your place of work should make you give to their chosen charity, although I know that the upper echelon folks in most companies are asked to…
It is what it is, forget the rights and wrongs. Ask any federal employee, military member, and employees of state and local governments. Donate the appropriate amount for your position and don’t work against or trash mouth the campaign. The importance that executives put on these campaigns probably seems very disproportionate to you but at the end of the day those same executives can make or break your career and reputation. Not worth the fight nor being remembered as the person that was against giving to charity.
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