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This is the thread I've been waiting for my whole life
Statement is very true. Everytime my grocery store asks for donations at the cash, I just tell the cashier no and the billion dollar company should just do it themselves and not use me as a tax write off.
They typically are shocked and don't know how to reply. It's quite amusing.
Yeah wow you really owned that cashier who is neither a billionaire nor responsible for decisions made by their employer. You sound like a douche.
I listen to a podcast debunking Alex Jones. He tells stories exactly in the same fashion, but usually about face masks not working, Covid denial, or some new world order nonsense. Including the whole cashier was shocked or thanked him blah blah blah. Insufferable.
Knowledge Fight!
Are you comparing me to that idiot who talked about gay frogs? Lol
We all have faults, and some that echo terrible people. Like I ramble and talk too much, not very concise and to the point. Alex Jones also has that fault, though I'm pretty sure he intentionally weaponizes it, while I just wallow in self hatred while doing the very thing I hate about myself.
They are the face of the company. I was never rude to them. I state why I don't donate to billionaires and leave it at that. At no point is there an argument or name calling like you just did.
Or they just don't have enough energy and paycheck to deal with your bullshit.
Seriously, is this what you think eating the rich looks like? Being an asshole to public-facing workers?
It's not being an asshole...it's called giving my opinion. They ask, I give. Why just say no like a mindless sheep...maybe the cashier's will listen and stop asking. They are paid to ring up products, not beg.
If the rich fucker was there, I'd be a real asshole. What I do, is only considered by weak minded people who can't be offended by anything.
yet they have the energy to beg for money for a billion dollar corporation?
it's called keeping your shitty job because you don't have the choice or privilege to tell them otherwise.
Thank you for showing that you've never worked a day in your life or have the privilege to say whatever you want without consequence.
Nobody firing you over that shit lol stop being such a wimp at work.
Their job is to ring up products, not beg for money from customers.
Except if their caught not asking they get in trouble, how many donations they get are probably also tracked. They have to ask to keep their minimum wage job, stop being an asshole
I'm not being an asshole. If their job demands they talk to me avout a subject, why is it bad that I also talk about the subject?
You stop being the asshole
This is why retail sucks. Just pay for your stuff.
I do...don't ask me to donate to a billionaire if you don't want to hear my reason why I don't. It's always polite, you idiots seem to think I'm being an aggressive asshole.
As if the cashier is trying to engage in a discussion of class. As if they aren't paid to ask. Just say no and feel secure with your own reasons without having to justify yourself. It's like when I worked at ace hardware in high school and every boomer would need to tell me how dumb it is to phase out incandescent light bulbs. Trying to preach to someone about your convictions against their will is so pointless and annoying.
Or...I can address questions that are asked to me and provide me reasoning in a non condescending way to hopefully educate others on the subject...
Who's preaching...I'm not starting the topic of discussion, they are. In your words, they are being paid to start this conversation. I don't go shopping to be asked to give money for nothing, so if they open with that discussion they will know my reasoning for not donating.
Don't see what your frustration with manufacture changes has to do with a company directly begging for free money from its customers but ok...
They must start the topic to have the job. They likely already know. They likely don't care. Your game forces them to pretend to care. You are holding them hostage because their genuine reaction would be to ignore you but they can't do that while working. You are causing them mental pain. You are forcing them to be something they aren't until you leave.
And? No, the company's game forced them to care by paying them to care. The company initiated contact with me, so I continued it. They are literally being paid to talk about this. I'm not holding them hostage at all.
Your mental paid is a retarded exaggeration. I'm sure the companies do way worse mental attacks then me calling their company shit
Also their company is forcing them to be someone and something they aren't. I'm not. I'm playing along with THEIR bullshit.
You think your standing up for the cashier's, but really your standing up for billionaires who would gladly kill you and sell your body for profit. Good job.
It's like blaming an ethernet cable for giving your computer a virus.
The designer of the virus is the asshole, and you would be the idiot who went to the website.
You are right that mental pain is an exaggeration, but it's the accumulation of insufferable interactions that make you hate retail. When 25% of people expect you to act for them, you feel like a puppet. YES the business demands this, but the customer invokes it. So don't invoke it and let workers sigh relief when you decide not to try to "test" their company response. Is this really that complicated?
Or, I can voice my opinion when someone trys to get me to give money to billionaires. Nothing you say will change my mind, keep typing away though. It's enjoyable watching your frustration that I don't conform to your standards of allowing people to be blinded by billionaires begging for more.
You think you are heard when you do this? Is there any gain for anyone at all?
Exactly lol.
That's not really how that works
Why not? How does it work?
As others have said, you can only write off money you donate. They didn't donate it, you did.
Even if you gave it to them then they donate it, they'd have to count it as income and pay tax on it then donate it to get the tax break. But that'd just cancel itself out anyways.
I have no idea why they ask for donations. Best guess is pr.
PR is exactly it. "We raised millions for [insert cause]! Aren't we the best?"
Donate to Walgreens
Money goes to Walgreen kids foundation
Kids see 5%, ceo of foundation gets a 75% raise for hard work..fires half staff for being lazy.
Fuck donating to companies.
For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.
Nope, that's not actually how it works in the US (can't speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you're eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.
The company doesn't get to write it off as their donation, because it's not. For them it's pretty neutral, they're receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.
Note: I can't speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it's still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven't looked into that side.
The foundations are usually owned by the companies begging for money. They don't do it to help the world, they do it for profit at their non-profit orgs.
Pittance for the kids
Raises for the ceos
It's much worse. Several companies orchestrate the giving for all those other companies.
Except they are all for profit.
The havenconferences and lectures and help gather more donations which they take a piece of.... for profit.
Annoyed as fuck and wanting you to leave.
Not shocked. Have a lot of replies, but not allowed to call anyone the R bomb either, so they're usually holding their tongues.
Being an asshole to the worker is the exact opposite of taking a "sharp witted and coy" shot at billionaires, but is just really fucking stupid.
Thank you AnarchKaren.
Who said I was an asshole about it...stop assuming stuff, makes you stinky.
The real asshole is the BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ASKING FOR HANDOUTS and using underpayed employment to do it..
Then go write an email to the CEO instead of bothering the cashiers for something they're literally forced to ask you.
Why would I. I didn't bring up the topic, they did. They can tell their superiors, not my responsibility
Sure, okay