[quote=doofrat]Arghhh, I hate it when companies badger their employees for that crap. I worked at Sears way back and they were always badgering you to donate an amount of your salary to United Way. One guy I worked with gave me a great idea to donate 1 cent, his point was it would cost more for both Sears and United Way to process the penny than they’d get, so that’s what I’d do. My manager could then check it off his list that he’d badgered his employee into “donating”.

A couple of years later, it came out that the President of United Way was using the funds to fly on the Concorde and such.

The current president draws a salary of over $1,000,000.

Pretty much soured me on donating money to anybody.

F$%^ The United Way[/quote]

i’ve been donating .25 a year to my alma mater s for about a decade. i have 2 reasons. while you’re still paying student loans, schools shouldnt solicit you for substantial sums.

more important though, is that school rankings are based in part on percentage of alumni who donate money as some marker of satsifaction or loyalty or alum network. i once got a snarky leter back froma dean saying hey hat’s up with the quarter.

i said, man, you should be mailing a quarter out to every alum with a Self addressed stamped envelope asking them to mail it back as a donation and explaining why. we could have top alum donation percentage.

ha.

huh.

costs me more to mail in my actual quearter than the donation.