re: Parents: Dealing with the shame of the World's Finest Chocolate Fundraiser?

quote:

---

Every year 5-6 parents at my office mercilessly put this shite out looking for cash. Little did I know when my first kid got in to school she'd had to sell this stuff. The wife says I have to bring it to work....ugh..... Anyone ever just pony up the $120 and give away the chocolate to hobos on College drive?

---

Actually ... That is EXACTLY what I did. You just kinda freaked me out

It can be used as a learning tool. Lazy parents just do it themselves.

At the very least make your kid come to work with you for an hour and sell it themselves. Get them to try, and not to accept a "no" as a salesman right away.

Kids have been in school for what 2 weeks and they are already forcing kids to peddle that shite?

I'll probably make her go ask nicely and smile door to door at the neighbors. I buy the $20 cards from all their fricking teenagers so least they can do is take some candy!

On a $2 box of chocolate almonds the school makes $1. That's not a bad return. At my kids school we raised for a wireless lab (30 laptops and cart) School raised about 15k they said. That's not chump change.

How about you make your child go door to door and sell it? Let your kid learn some people skills and how to handle rejection. It is a good life skill for them to develop.

Putting a box in the parents office to allow your kid to skate without doing any work is enabling them to be lazy and let someone else do their work. This enabling is probably hurting your child in the long term.

whats the reward for selling the box? isn't it like a day off of school or some BS?

quote:

---

Anyone ever just pony up the $120 and give away the chocolate to hobos on College drive?

---

That seems like a horrible example to your kid.

i think it's tacky when it's an owner or some big wig in the company's kid. literally every person in that office is making you richer every day, and you're gonna ask them for a buck when you're worth more than all the underlings put together.

Protip: When they do the cookie dough fundraiser, somebody always leaves one in the freezer. After a week or two, they've forgotten about it and it's fair game to come along and take out a big scoop of frozen goodness on the regular. Six months later, when they remember it's in there and find a half empty container, there's no way to fix the blame. It could have been anybody in the office.