My company has apparently decided to partner with a well known charity and run a donation drive. Employees are NOT required to donate...
BUT...
We are being heavily "encouraged" to donate to the point where I feel like certain coworkers think I'm a douchebag for not wanting to donate.
We constantly get memos and communications from corporate stressing the importance of the "fundraising initiative" and how they think it's just great that employees of [company x] are so willing to step up and help out those in need.
There's one woman I work with who asks me nearly EVERY single day whether or not I've donated yet and when I tell her I have no intention to, she responds with the title of this post. I understand that completely.
Not that it's any of her damn business anyway but for the record:
I have no problem with charitable donations, but I don't care for the particular charity we're working with (I usually donate to smaller, local operations where it's easier to find out where my money is going).
It turns out I'm one of the only people on my supervisor's team to have not donated anything yet and he doesn't seem too thrilled by that. I've made my intentions clear to him and plan to stand by it.
It also happens that one of my recent time off requests was mysteriously denied with no reason given when they are almost always granted. This wasn't a weekend or holiday I was asking for either.
I know some of you will say "suck it up and donate a few dollars" and I understand why you'd feel that way, but to me it's the principle of the thing. We were told that donating was NOT mandatory so I don't feel I should be borderline forced into a so-called "voluntary" action.
BUT...
We are being heavily "encouraged" to donate to the point where I feel like certain coworkers think I'm a douchebag for not wanting to donate.
We constantly get memos and communications from corporate stressing the importance of the "fundraising initiative" and how they think it's just great that employees of [company x] are so willing to step up and help out those in need.
There's one woman I work with who asks me nearly EVERY single day whether or not I've donated yet and when I tell her I have no intention to, she responds with the title of this post. I understand that completely.
Not that it's any of her damn business anyway but for the record:
I have no problem with charitable donations, but I don't care for the particular charity we're working with (I usually donate to smaller, local operations where it's easier to find out where my money is going).
It turns out I'm one of the only people on my supervisor's team to have not donated anything yet and he doesn't seem too thrilled by that. I've made my intentions clear to him and plan to stand by it.
It also happens that one of my recent time off requests was mysteriously denied with no reason given when they are almost always granted. This wasn't a weekend or holiday I was asking for either.
I know some of you will say "suck it up and donate a few dollars" and I understand why you'd feel that way, but to me it's the principle of the thing. We were told that donating was NOT mandatory so I don't feel I should be borderline forced into a so-called "voluntary" action.
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