• IninewCrow
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    4 days ago

    Fuck that … any time some idiot cashier asks me to donate to something I immediately and before they even finish, I will say ‘NO THANK YOU’

    If anyone ever asks me why I’m being so cheap, I remind them that the big giant corporation of a store that I am shopping at is more than capable of donating a few million dollars to the dumb charity they’re trying to push on everyone.

    Who’s the cheap one in this scenario? Me not wanting to give a few pennies to a charity? … or a corporation that isn’t donating a million or two for no reason other than that it is chump change to them?

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      4 days ago

      In fairness to cashiers, they’re not the ones spearheading these campaigns. They’re in the same boat as you except that their job security is contingent upon them presenting a donation option.

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        Yes, I fully understand that … the ones that bug me are the young new workers who haven’t learned the realities of these dumb marketing tricks and instead look at you like a cheap angry old man for not wanting to donate. It usually takes them about a week or two before the reality sets in that most people don’t like these marketing ploys … then it takes another two weeks for them to figure out why … then they finally become the sullen cashier that mechanically goes through the motions of asking and then not really caring what your response is.

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          The wording in your first comment suggests that you think they’re “idiots” and you interrupt them for asking for the donation that they’re obligated to ask for

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            Yes I was too hasty and quick to be polite about it … my apologies for that … but it is an aggravating occurrence to have to deal with it in a regular basis.

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      4 days ago

      They’re just doing their job. No one cares why you don’t want to. No need to have a whole speech prepared.

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        If anyone ever asks me

        If people are actually asking, then sounds like yes, there is a need to have a speech prepared.

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          And if your grandmother had wheels she’d be a bike.

          Just be nice and have the common decency of letting them do their jobs and finish their sentences.

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            That saying is different in my corner of the world, it goes “she’d be an omnibus” lol