...for me to bring one of my kid's fundraiser stuff to work and ask each of my coworkers if they will pitch in and buy popcorn, bed sheets or laundry detergent to help fund the team's trip to Orlando?
Is it ok....
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I certainly appreciate when someone brings in Girl Scout cookies to sell!
I don’t see anything wrong with you putting an order form in a central place (by the water cooler, coffee pot) and letting people come to you. Probably would be annoying if you went office to office asking if someone wanted to buy.
I don’t see anything wrong with you putting an order form in a central place (by the water cooler, coffee pot) and letting people come to you. Probably would be annoying if you went office to office asking if someone wanted to buy.
I made that mistake once. Took my cute little girls around the office collecting money for some school fundraiser thing. I was relying on past precedent at the time. Better practice has since arisen where you just set out the fundraiser materials on a table in a common area and say nothing to anyone about it. If someone wants to sign up, they will, or they can ignore. No pressure.
If its not against company policy go ahead. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Just be nice about it.
No no... I want to go knock on doors. Talk to these people face to face that I've only ever called or emailed. I believe that would help my sales figures and I could alleviate some of the financial stress I'm under after committing to take my child to "compete" in Orlando for a week where we also plan to do 4 days in the parks.
Would that be... frowned upon?
No. Let the kids gain some experience by you being the “coach” showing them how to have interactions with people. Start with family that way they get comfortable with it. After you see they are comfortable, go into the neighborhood WITH them. I can’t stand watching these parents idling while their kids are at the front door of a house. GO WITH THEM but let them do it. Science projects- that’s up to the parents; **** that busy work. Ya’ll have fun!
Had a sneaky suspicion you were making fun of someone else.
But hey that's not as bad as the ones who say they are spreading the gospel of Jesus while doing ballet in France, and you can support this.
But the worst of all is the calendars where you can buy a square to support Johnny's Cal Ripken Experience. $1 to $30 (or $31). That's it. There's no catch.
Everyone that has kids in our office brings whatever it is they are selling and puts it in the kitchen on a table and its on the honor system, you put in whatever the cash amount is owed for the Worlds Finest Chocolate, wrapping paper or whatever.. Most of the time, people put in more
Gotta love school fundraising. You pay more for something not great that they'll make less money on than if they'd just asked you for money in the first place.
My favorite is the Country Pleasin' Sausage fundraisers, where Country Meat Packers doesn't discount any of it from retail AT ALL, and you actually pay more for a pack of sausage than you would pay at the grocery store or at Sams.
Unless you have food I can consume immediately, just ask me for money.
My favorite is the Country Pleasin' Sausage fundraisers, where Country Meat Packers doesn't discount any of it from retail AT ALL, and you actually pay more for a pack of sausage than you would pay at the grocery store or at Sams.
Unless you have food I can consume immediately, just ask me for money.
A raffle is the best way. Usually a small expense that you have in your pocket but you at least have a chance of something big.
Second best is what we used to do in high school, sell a plate of food for just slightly higher than normal. Usually we did smoked chicken, some beans, potato salad, roll and drink for $15 (25 years ago). Nowadays sell it for $20. You're at least giving something.
No. I think work is supposed to be a solicitation free zone. Setting it on a break room table is probably acceptable. It’s better than a team of kids sitting at the corner of a busy intersection and asking for handouts in a bucket, but not a lot better. At least you’re selling something that has value, albeit you often overpay for that value in a fundraiser.
You should bring the kid with you to work. Walk him from office to office. Work on his speech, be sure he uses words like Grateful, opportunity, blessings, community, and God.
I'm generally of the opinion that if you sign your kid up for something, you should pay for it. Exception: if the kid is doing a thing and they end up doing legitimately great enough at it to receive an invitation to some objectively high level of participation, then perhaps personal fund raising by you if it is the difference in the kid getting to do it or not. Like, Olympic tryouts, etc.
Most of this BS is a boondoggle for subsidizing expensive trips. Don't get me started on HS bands that are "honored to have been invited to march in Disneyworld" when the truth is the band director is in cahoots with the sponsoring organization and is getting a free family vacation out of the deal...
I’m sorry, did you just wake up from a 7-year coma?
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