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Yeah wow you really owned that cashier who is neither a billionaire nor responsible for decisions made by their employer. You sound like a douche.
I listen to a podcast debunking Alex Jones. He tells stories exactly in the same fashion, but usually about face masks not working, Covid denial, or some new world order nonsense. Including the whole cashier was shocked or thanked him blah blah blah. Insufferable.
Knowledge Fight!
We all have faults, and some that echo terrible people. Like I ramble and talk too much, not very concise and to the point. Alex Jones also has that fault, though I'm pretty sure he intentionally weaponizes it, while I just wallow in self hatred while doing the very thing I hate about myself.
Or they just don't have enough energy and paycheck to deal with your bullshit.
Seriously, is this what you think eating the rich looks like? Being an asshole to public-facing workers?
it's called keeping your shitty job because you don't have the choice or privilege to tell them otherwise.
Thank you for showing that you've never worked a day in your life or have the privilege to say whatever you want without consequence.
Except if their caught not asking they get in trouble, how many donations they get are probably also tracked. They have to ask to keep their minimum wage job, stop being an asshole
This is why retail sucks. Just pay for your stuff.
As if the cashier is trying to engage in a discussion of class. As if they aren't paid to ask. Just say no and feel secure with your own reasons without having to justify yourself. It's like when I worked at ace hardware in high school and every boomer would need to tell me how dumb it is to phase out incandescent light bulbs. Trying to preach to someone about your convictions against their will is so pointless and annoying.
They must start the topic to have the job. They likely already know. They likely don't care. Your game forces them to pretend to care. You are holding them hostage because their genuine reaction would be to ignore you but they can't do that while working. You are causing them mental pain. You are forcing them to be something they aren't until you leave.
It's like blaming an ethernet cable for giving your computer a virus.
The designer of the virus is the asshole, and you would be the idiot who went to the website.
You are right that mental pain is an exaggeration, but it's the accumulation of insufferable interactions that make you hate retail. When 25% of people expect you to act for them, you feel like a puppet. YES the business demands this, but the customer invokes it. So don't invoke it and let workers sigh relief when you decide not to try to "test" their company response. Is this really that complicated?
You think you are heard when you do this? Is there any gain for anyone at all?
Exactly lol.
That's not really how that works
Why not? How does it work?
As others have said, you can only write off money you donate. They didn't donate it, you did.
Even if you gave it to them then they donate it, they'd have to count it as income and pay tax on it then donate it to get the tax break. But that'd just cancel itself out anyways.
I have no idea why they ask for donations. Best guess is pr.
PR is exactly it. "We raised millions for [insert cause]! Aren't we the best?"
For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.
Nope, that's not actually how it works in the US (can't speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you're eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.
The company doesn't get to write it off as their donation, because it's not. For them it's pretty neutral, they're receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.
Note: I can't speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it's still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven't looked into that side.
It's much worse. Several companies orchestrate the giving for all those other companies.
Except they are all for profit.
The havenconferences and lectures and help gather more donations which they take a piece of.... for profit.
Annoyed as fuck and wanting you to leave.
Not shocked. Have a lot of replies, but not allowed to call anyone the R bomb either, so they're usually holding their tongues.
Being an asshole to the worker is the exact opposite of taking a "sharp witted and coy" shot at billionaires, but is just really fucking stupid.
Thank you AnarchKaren.
Sure, okay