Fund raising in the office
How much of your family life do you bring with you to the office? Do you share stories about your kids’ accomplishments in school? Do you tell them when your kids get a cavity? Do you beg for money from your coworkers so your kids’ band program will not get cancelled?
School fundraisers are everywhere these days and everybody seems to deal with them a little differently. With our kids, we just passed the catalogs to our parents and siblings. Some people bring them to family gatherings which seems fine most of the time to me, too. I know people that bring them in to work and just tape the catalog outside their cubicle. That seems fine and non-offensive.
Then, I know of a guy who stapled his kid’s catalog to the back of the phone list and started it around the office expecting everybody to cross their name off the list as they either ordered something or declined and passed it to the next person on the list.
That is just tacky. Do not be tacky at work just because you have kids. You give the rest of us working parents a bad name.
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3 opinions for Fund raising in the office
Reba
Oct 24, 2006 at 7:16 am
I used to think that these fund raisers bothered me because they never sold anything I wanted or needed. But now I realize that I do need and want some of these things….but they are just to expensive! Who really wants to pay $7.50 for a tub of spreadable cheese? Is $9.00 really fair for a roll of Bob the Builder wrapping paper? NO! But then you say “but its for the children” and you pay up. That’s the way it works.
Karen
Nov 8, 2006 at 1:27 pm
I don’t like them because the stuff costs way toooooooo much and then there is all that stuff I don’t need. I can remember buying stuff from kids at church and it being stuff I didn’t need or want. I just want to say, “Can I give you a $5 donation?” I’d rather give a $5 donation then spend too much for something I don’t need and be irritated about it. Fortunately, some of these fundraiser companies have become a little wiser and started offering things like catalogs and calendars. I can deal with that.
mike
Nov 13, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I was talking to our next door neighbor about this today because she was trying to get rid of some popcorn she bought during one of the many fundraisers in the neighborhood. She wishes she could just give money, too. I think the whole thing will die down at some point. Maybe schools should set up websites to sell stuff like that and take it out of the kids’ hands.
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