I hate asking people for money, I just fucking hate it. But if I decide not to ask every single person that goes through my line for a donation, I get the silent treatment from my manager. Oh and by the way it’s TWO DOLLARS, what a stupid amount for charity. I can understand if it was around a dollar, but $2 is too much. What if someone was just buying a bottle of pop, do you really think they want to add $2 to that?
At our store for every 10 you sell you get entered into a draw to win a gift card, WTF!? There should be NO incentive to ask people for money, but you know why there is, because managers want to make their store look good. Well you know what, fuck you, I am not asking a single person for charity any more, if it gets me into trouble, so be it. I’m tired of sending people on a guilt trip by mentioning “Oh, it’s for children!” And I’m tired of hearing other cashiers gloat about how many they sold, “Oh, you only sold 19? What happened?” Fuck off.
If people want to donate on their own time, fine, but I’m done. —Bitchy Cashier
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.
i agree with you 100%.
not only is it a huge guilt trip, the store actually uses those donations to get a tax break!!…. its not even their fucking money and they get to use it to pay less taxes.
as soon as i heard that i had no problem saying no to donations.
the ones i have a problem with now are the stores who have kids waiting at the end of the cash register to pack your bags looking for donations…. nothing like turning the guilt trip up to level 10 having to stiff some 6 year old kid who doesn’t understand what a douche move it is to have them begging for cash.
If i’m donating, then ill decide where my money goes. and its not to a charity that has 80% administrative overhead on every dollar they collect.
the only way I’m donating is if they voluntarily put an amount of their profit towards the charity. Like $1 of your purchase goes to _______ .
As the brindi killer said
If i’m donating, then ill decide where my money goes and
I’ll keep the tax break for myself while I’m at it as well.
Good for you for standing up for your belief. I believe if people want to donate they should and should put whatever they decide. You’re right: they don’t need prompting as to how much. Actually i wonder about all these so called ‘donations to charity’ anyhow. In this day and age most people are just trying to keep body and soul together themselves, unless both are working and they have No mortgage there isn’t much left over anyhow.
I totally agree with you, I was at the grocery store this evening and there was a student in front of me in the line. He was using coupons and was not sure about buying a couple of extra bags… he was watching every penny, any moron could see that. Then the cashier has the nerve to ask him for a donation for some childrens charity. I couldn’t believe it. He was very nice about it, I would not have been… and when it was my turn I declined. I think it should not be allowed….
I really feel for those of you working the cashier lines that are made to do this. While my response when asked is a polite “not today thanks” I am only saying that because I know it is not your choice.
What I would really like to do, is request to speak to the store manager and to tell him/her in no uncertain terms to fuck right off with this deplorable practise.
that’s why i try to use my best material with retail workers. i know most of the folks at the s/s, i’ll suss things out
I just mindlessly give on my way through the checkout. I gave $2.00 last Sunday at the Superstore, I can’t remember what it was for?
What material are you trying out on the retail workers PG? You becoming a standup comedienne?
nope, i don’t like crowds. i enjoy lively banter and situational awareness
depending on the charity, i give as much as i’m able to, at that moment. dog rescue, and stuff like that, gets priority over cancer and other rip offs.
Everyone has their hand out these days for something. I’ll give when I feel like it.
OP. Are they still calling people cashiers or is it sales technicians these days?
Señor – some, not all, are called Surly Cunts.
What some don’t realize is that in a lot of cases, especially with chain stores, it’s not the manager’s call either. They are being instructed by head office to do this, so by taking your anger out on the manager, your essentially preaching to the choir here too.
Why would you feel guilty? If you can’t afford it or if it’s not the charity you chose to support, or the way you choose to support it, or if you just don’t feel like being charitable, then so be it. There is absolutely no shame in that. Charity begins at home, as they say. Politely decline and move on with your life. It’s not like these cashiers are judging you for not making a donation. Trust me. They got other, more mundane things on their minds than your unfounded guilt.
And in my experience, when they have the kids at the end of the check out bagging groceries for donations, it’s usually in an attempt to raise funds for the club or sports team that they belong to. Not a charity. This may have changed, but I don’t think so. Here again though, it’s no big deal. I usually pay via debit and rarely, if ever, have cash or loose change on me. I just politely tell them that I’m sorry but I don’t have any change. I don’t get angry and I sure as hell don’t lose sleep over it.
i think everytime i have seen kids bagging, it’s for their sports team or school trip. i always have a pocket of toonies and loonies ‘in case’ . i drop in buckets for vets, sally ann and certain ‘box’ charities. prob the same ones as blow-me-down. there are prob more and more NPO’s out there trying to get smaller and smaller pieces of our charitable donations. another plus for technology is PAP to organizations. you can set up your bank account or credit card (not a good idea if you run a bad balance) to give a set amount each month. it may only be 10-20 $ but for outfits like local animal rescue every dollar gets spent for the animals. and it’s regular. go without a few cups of bought coffee a month. so if you are inclined to feel badly about saying ‘no’ at the checkout, you would know you are supporting what YOU want to support. whatever turns your crank. but i suspect that people who always say ‘ill donate to what I want to donate to’ probably don’t at all.
OB, grow the hell up. Someone is actually paying you to ask people for charity. It seems like you have spun this into a bad thing when it isn’t.
A person doing a job as a cashier, shouldn’t have to beg money from customers .
I know it isn’t in my job description, that begging money for a charity of the company/bosses discression must be done during working hours.
It shouldn’t be in anyone’s job description UNLESS they work for a charity organization & then that was your choice & I see no problem with having a choice to do what you wish…not having a choice & being forced to do something outside of your job pisses me off.
Two dollars? I don’t fucking think so. Imagine if every place you shopped tried to tack on these charitable donations?? I will choose my own charitable organizations to donate money too. If these big corporations really CARED so much about the sick kids or summer camps, perhaps they should donate a chunk of their sizeable profits themselves and stop harrassing their patrons!!
Pretty sure we work at the same store, and I hear yeah! I’m glad this is in the bitches! WIN 🙂