My daughter has been in a non-profit, girls only organization since she was 5 years old. This organization does a lot for the community and overall my daughter enjoys the weekly meeting. However I recently learned of a new “policy” her unit has started regarding a yearly cookie selling campaign. This year for the first time each girl was given 2 cases (that’s 48 boxes) of cookies to sell within 2 weeks. This is one extra CASE then previous years. At first I thought this was merely a suggestion to sell both cases however I recently learned that any girl who fails to sell all boxes will be REQUIRED to spend a Saturday morning solicitating the unsold cookies in front of a local store. Since when has this organization set such a quota on parents to sell these cookies (yes it’s mostly the parents who end up pushing these cookies on family and co workers)!! What happens if you work from home, no family near by or really have nobody interested in your cookies?? Why should familes have to cancel their Saturday plans because their kid didn’t make the cookie quota. Really… wow times have changed! I belonged to this group when I was a kid. Back when it was actually fun… —take your cookies and shove ’em!
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2013.
WHA??????!!!! Well, no cookies for Meaty! Bitches!
And you may be better off asking the organization for an explanation to your very good questions!
Then don’t send your child on Saturday; call the leader and explain why you’re not; call the regional coordinator and make a formal complaint, noting you’re using social media to keep the public informed of the outcome; watch the policy change – quickly.
Cookie Boycott!
In hindsight, maybe letting Vito Rizzuto do his community service with your troop wasn’t such a good idea.
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this calls for the intervention of cookie monster! this is crummy extortion!
Well, at least the cookies are good!
Don’t sell the cookies then. But be prepared to pay full price for camps and special events, buy your child’s own badges and pins, and send snacks with your child for special events like Halloween and Christmas. Cookie sales directly support the units and costs associated with running them.
there are lots of non-profit organizations out there, you either buy the cookies or sell them to your friends or family. i’m sorry i can’t muster up much sympathy
This sounds really fishy for said organization. I’d be sending a quick email to the national office to verify if this is a new nationwide policy or if it’s just that group. If it’s just that group, report their asses. If it’s national – well, there are other organizations in which to involve your daughter that aren’t as aggressive in their fundraising activities.
Try targeting the University crowd and weed heads…..
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Put your kids in Cadets
No soliciting anything – government funded
Your kids get paid to go to camps – and certifiable training
They do all the same stuff – as well as more stuff… and better stuff… yeah, they’re way more kick-ass
Also,
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A SEVERE PENALTY INDEED
“… however I recently learned that any girl who fails to sell all boxes will be REQUIRED to spend a Saturday morning solicitating (sic) the unsold cookies in front of a local store.” take your cookies and shove ’em!
How does one “solicit” unsold cookies? Don’t you mean that your daughter will be required to spend the morning soliciting those who frequent the space in front of that local store? Is the space in front of that local store a hang-out for pedophiles? What will she be charging?
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It’s hard out there for a not-for-profit, lots of them all trying to raise funds, it’s so hard 🙁 I am sorry to hear that the girls/families in this organization (a GREAT organization!) are being pressured to move a lot more product.
take it back mm. she’s a little kid.
Let’s be honest. Cookies are usually frantically pawned off on parents co-workers.
Speak to your troop leader and express your opinion. Or contact provincial head office, and on up the chain. Can they “make” you (your child) sell any? Can’t you simply say no?
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: Good dog Molly (10/17, 10:47AM)
Well Good dog, it was just Montrealman having his little bit of fun. He’ll take it back if the poster takes back that atrocity, “solicitating.” I mean, my God!
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SOLICITING IN PUBLIC SPACES
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: Good dog Molly (10/17, 10:47AM)
Just a short postscript to my last comment. Your comment, “take it back mm. she’s a little kid” indicates that you have completely misunderstood my “A Severe Penalty Indeed”. It didn’t concern the kid at all. Rather, it concerned the bitcher, her mother.
In addition to mangling the word “soliciting” she didn’t appear to understand what it meant. I think she wanted to use the word “selling” in connection with her child spending Saturday morning getting rid of her unsold cookies in front of a local store. But I guess “selling” wasn’t good enough. She wanted to hit a home run with her “solicitating,” apparently not realizing that those who solicit in public spaces do not usually do so for the purpose of selling cookies. They have another purpose in mind. Can you guess what it might be?
So there we are. It wasn’t about the kid at all. It was about her mother. Do you get it now, Good dog? Atta girl.
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Call me the devil’s advocate, but I have to agree with MM on the context of that word.
I get the feeling that his status in the Hellfire Club is reasonably secure. No blackballing, unless that’s one of his kinks.
ahhhh mm I agree there should be penalties (on-line ridicule works for me) for the solicitating spew ( is that same language as conversating?)
and take-back accepted you rogue. and no, that does NOT mean I will write about labia. you did say ‘what will SHE be charging?” which does implicate the little one in the accusation.
ivan, klyde it would never occur to me that mm was of that persuasion. he just let his wit wander off for a sentence or two.
For MM “Blackballing” could as easily involve a large bottle of India Ink and bestowing the old “Arabian Goggles” on some fellow pedagogue sleeping off his liquid lunch in the faculty lounge.
or shaving a large S in the sleeping pedagogue’s chest hair. S, of course, for sophist
uh oh, nothing to do with blackballing. I have let my wit run off leash
Shaving? Phhhht!
You mix a little naptha with some dishwasher detergent and use a narrow brush to paint the “S” in his hair. Then, you get the BBQ lighter and ….
*Disclaimer: Should only be performed by trained professionals under laboratory conditions.
one of my ex’s used neet on himself to get a large letter S on his chest. oh heck, I confess I helped him. he was also the one who depilated his ass during a fart lighting session. he also had his electroshock session videotaped so he could inflict it on party guests. you wanna talk home movies???
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Well chaps, what can I say? Everything that has been said is true. Except for one thing. A sophist? My God, Good dog, that hurt!
And Good dog, would the one who depilated his ass be the same ex whose false teeth were enmeshed in some female’s pubic tuft? Some parties, Good dog, some parties, and the home movies sound pretty gripping too!
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yes, it would be the same ex mr good dog, fun times were had by all until he started having visions of me rising from the basement well covered in flames and chanting various whore of Babylon incitements. which didn’t help our trust issues at all, at all.
and mm, how quick you were to see slight where none intended (self esteem issues dear one?) the ‘sophist’ accusation was to be hurled/tittered by YOU at the other pedagogue who had the bad taste to fall asleep whilst in your presence (and possibly during your speech)
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: Good dog Molly (10/18, 4:52PM)
Yes, I can see how your trust issues might be affected by his “Whore of Babylon” comment but, at the same time, you have to recognize the fact that it does have a strong Biblical allusion which places it well above the invective one usually finds on this site.
Anyway Good dog, I was only being facetious and didn’t take your reference to my being a “sophist” as a slight. Of course, “sophistry” is currently seen as devious sharp practice – lawyers are seen as our present sophists – but the content of the classical version has considerable merit. Take Protagoras and his, “Man is the measure of all things.” I don’t see this as epistemological relativism, i.e., that truth is the product of the reflections of individual human beings but rather that truth is the product of human beings taken as a collective, as humanity in general. Since truth is not something one finds as such in nature – where would one possible look? – it is hard to see how truth could be conceived otherwise. I am sure you have pondered on these things and have come to comparable conclusions.
Yes, I must say I was offended by the other pedagogue who fell asleep in my presence, the bloody sophist!
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