Inappropriate office behavior???.... discuss

[PremiumG]

A little while ago, a co-worker at my office decided to do a fundraiser for a good cause.. Great! So, she proceeds to email everyone in the office (about 30 people). She explains the cause and her goal and explains that for each donation, she will bake the donator a goodie with a tier system.

(i.e. $10 - brownie, $20 - slice choco cake, $50 - whole cake).

Here's the bad part. She sends out at least 2-3 reminder emails with her progress report. Also, with each donation, she emails the entire office to thank that one person and pretty much in the email hints how much he/she donated.

(i.e. Thanks!! Looks like you'll be getting 2 brownies tomorrow!!; You just earned yourself half a cake mr!!, etc.)

Is it me or is this totally inappropriate???

 

[Colt45]

Start sending out company wide emails about for your kid got an A, or how the weather is nice today.

 

[Farang]

I am totally against office charity drives. I'm not too experienced in office work and don't know how common this is, but my first office job we had a United Way charity drive. They promoted it all day, which I didn't really have a problem with, but my boss would come up to me a few times during the day offering to sell a bunch of overpriced food items (candy, popcorn, etc.) for the drive. I'm on the phone giving tech support and turning her down on principle, but you definitely feel pressure to donate and not look like an asshole. To be tapped on the shoulder and asked for a donation by my employer is very unprofessional in my opinion. They payed us a livable wage and then come asking us to help the homeless, like I have that money to spare and if I did I'd be giving it to the charity they picked out. No thanks, I prefer my contributions are anonymous and to charities I choose.

 

[Captante]

Asking you to contribute once is fine & the rewards are a nice touch, but asking repeatedly is out of line as are the e-mail reminders she sends out.

 

[angminas]

Yup, inappropriate, in a lot of ways. Why isn't your boss doing something about this?

 

[PremiumG]

my boss is also unprofessional in many ways... and this co-worker and him knew each other from back when.

i dont think anyone else would get anyway w/ it at the office.

 

[ultimatebob]

Wow... it sounds like she's basically telling the whole office how much everyone donated. That sucks.

Maybe you should send a "I'll give you an extra brownie if you stop telling everyone how much I donated" type of note to her... it might get the point across.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Wow... it sounds like she's basically telling the whole office how much everyone donated. That sucks.

Maybe you should send a "I'll give you an extra brownie if you stop telling everyone how much I donated" type of note to her... it might get the point across.

:thumbsup:

 

[jlfirehawk]

I worked at a fortune 500 company and was directly told by a manager during a review on why I didnt sign up for a deduction on my paycheck to go to united way, he said we pay higher than average so we expect things like this to make the company look good. I still said no. Like the person above I will keep my charity donations private.

 

[dug777]

Totally inappropriate.

I'd suggest that she took a short flight to retardland, and burnt in hell enroute, without passing 'Go', and without collecting $200.

 

[lokiju]

They do this all the time for fund raisers.

Then they'll plaster posters all over the place also.

And send follow up reminds and "Last Chance to donate!!!" emails as well.

Drives me nuts.

If you want to do a fund raiser, thats fine by me, send out the email and let people know the details.

Even the posters are fine in case someone missed the email but the constant daily emails for two weeks is where I draw the line.

 

[Mr Pickles]

We have about 10 people that run in the Boston Marathon and all of them try to raise money independently by emailing all 8 of our corporate offices in the nation. I want to punch them.

 

[Modeps]

When I worked for a smallish company, every now and then I'd get an email from someone saying that they had a couch for sale or some tickets they weren't using (women's basketball tickets only). After they send those out, I liked to just respond to all and type "unsubscribe". I got many laughs. You should try it.

In general, I think its bad practice and unprofessional.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

You just earned yourself half a cake mr!!

Send out a company-wide reply asking "mr!!" for a slice of cake "since I won't be getting any "goodies" otherwise".

 

[RightIsWrong]

This is the reason that they have Rules. Create one that sends any email with the word "Donate" in it to a special folder that is deleted hourly.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: PremiumG

Is it me or is this totally inappropriate???

you are correct

 

[Nitemare]

block her and if she asks why say your email blocks spam

 

[hiromizu]

I could think of a million things that could go wrong with such action. That is totally unacceptable behavior.

 

[KB]

I would agree it is inappropriate. Humans tend to have a competition about everything, including morality. This includes charitable contributions, amount of "greenness" and amount of faith in a higher being.

I worked for a company that had United Way team leaders that would visit your desk and get your contribution card in person. I would make my contribution and if they asked any questions I would give them this article:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f...F937A2575AC0A962958260

 

[bigrash]

At least your boss didn't send you an email to participate in the Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run For The Cure.

 

[Ramma2]

Using company resources (email system) for anything other than directly work related items is inappropriate.

 

[meltdown75]

lol, be more uptight

OMG MISUSE OF COMPANY RESOURCES!#!^#%!#

 

[torpid]

Inappropriate.

 

[Casawi]

I would say it sounds stupid, and time consuming. Does she do this at work ???

 

[Mermaidman]

It's an example of what I hated about working in an office. Others include:
-Corporate pressure to 'donate' to United Way (like Firehawk mentioned)
-'Optional' contributions to baby showers, bridal showers, birthdays . . .