...for just about anything. I'm not talking just about birthdays and leavings etc, it seems to me at my place that if you walked out of the toilets, arms outstretched in the air, declaring you'd just done a 'mighty panblocker', a collection would instantly whisk its way around the office along with a fitting 2ft card to go with it to be signed by people that you never knew worked there let alone spoke to!
I'm not a meany but working in a fairly large office it seems to me there's one every day. How about you? What do you think?
2007-07-17 11:20:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
Start your own random collections. ( and do it on a daily basis ), Pocket the takings.
Then it's off down to the pub to get s**t-faced at their expence !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-07-17 11:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tangerine-Seasider 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Who are most of these people we've given money to? I stopped 'donating' and started giving excuses like I don't have money on me or it's my lunch money. One woman who was leaving after 10 years had a cheek to ask someone in the day shift to actually do a collection for her while she went around doing her own collection in night shift!!
They make you feel selfish and guilty if you don't give!
I think whoever is doing the collection esp if it's a surprise should at least know who the person speaks to and who their friends are before they go around asking for our hard earned cash!
2007-07-17 11:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by ~Kitana~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Today an envelope landed on my desk for a donation to somebodies wedding collection.......... i had no idea who this person was. ......... apparently it was Jenny "in the other room" ???????? in the last two weeks i think our company have had 44 weddings....... 16 birthdays....... 24 funeral's..........84 retirements........and 700 "welcome back from your holidays did you have good weather/great hotel/ blah blah blah.... I now do not give to any collection for any reason.... miserable git maybe but have now got money to buy lunch.
2007-07-17 11:37:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no problem just ignore the collection unless it is actually a close friend or colleague, cos if you give to every collection it will cost a fortune and the recipient wont appreciate the gift cos they don't actually know who you are, and if they don't know who you are so what sod em
2007-07-17 13:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by trevor s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - Was in my job a month and was expected to dish out fourty quid for two leavers and two engagement pressies!! I was like ????
2007-07-17 11:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by Em x 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
haha... random collections sounds like if your started your own no-one would question it!
2007-07-17 11:39:20 · answer #6 · answered by Roger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe the other people are just followers
2007-07-17 11:28:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋