The "Let us donate on your behalf" corporate scam

I don't feel bad at all telling people no. In fact, I hate going somewhere and when you are checking out they ask if you want to donate. I feel like they are trying to take advantage thinking most people will feel bad and say yes so for that reason I say no.

You have no idea where your money is going. I don't want to donate to some charity where only 20% of the money they raise actually goes towards what they are raising money for.

I had a cashier at a Chevron station hit me up for an extra buck for a military charity that Chevron was collecting for. When I declined, she asked in shock, “You don’t support the troops?”

I guess that triggered me, and I went on a rant about making my own donations to charity, and if Chevron wanted to donate that was great, but a billion dollar company shouldn’t bum a dollar off of me so they could get PR and brag about how generous they are when giving away my money.

It’s a shame when huge companies are as big a bunch of bums as the people hanging out in their parking lot.

I remember as a kid I'd throw a big shiny penny into the plastic jar for MDA or whatever at 7-11. Then I'd watch the telethon and see some corporate executive walk out on stage and present an oversized check "on behalf of the employees and customers of 7-11," without ever mentioning me by name.

Crock of shite.

My company likes to prod us to raise money for certain charities. Now I’m no CPA, but I’m almost certain that the only reason they ask us to do this is so that they can use those monies to make sizable donations in their name in order to reduce their taxable income. I may be totally wrong, but I feel like that’s, at least partially, how it works.

I don’t mind it as much if it’s a matching donation type of deal, which is something many companies offer to their employees. But yeah it’s annoying when you’re being asked, as a customer, to donate to some charity on their behalf.

Ask them to donate first to charity. Really messes them up.

Firehouse subs when the ask if I want to "Round up" to support first responders, I ask "you want to round down to support your customers?

It’s amazing how weak and guilted people are. Mostly women, but I’ve seen men do it as well. There’s a jar next to the cashier at a gas station I stop at that says ‘humanity fund’.

There’s some homeless that hang around that area so I’m guessing it’s funds to enable their behavior or simply some side hustle for the cashier?

Either way, I always see people drop their change in it or throw in a dollar all the time. Even spare change from that many customers adds up over time. It’s always full of money.

Groceries used to get me with this, and then they overplayed their hand by asking every single week.

I just donate the change or any change I might have in the car usually about a dollar and leave it at that.

There were news reports a few years ago about how many of the change collection/charity boxes you see on the counter at businesses are run by Paulie Walnuts types, with not one penny going to charity.

Same for the clothing donation bins. Many are falsely marked as a charity, but the collectors sell the clothes for profit. There is apparently good money in bundling American's old clothes and selling it by the ton to retailers in poor countries.