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countrigal
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« on: September 07, 2005, 02:38:00 pm » |
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Dettu... I'm so sorry that your company puts this much pressure on it's employees. I'm really blessed that the company I work for is not allowed to do this. They even had to get special permission just to send an e-mail out to everyone letting them know how they could help following Katrina's devastation, and that was after several employees (think hundreds) were asking what they could do to help. But even then, they were only allowed to send one e-mail to everyone letting them know what they can do, who to contact (Red Cross or other local agencies -- no one in the company), etc and then any follow-ups to that regarding change of any of the information. No pressure on anyone, just a sharing of information. I really can't see how it's charity if the entire company feels like you do, that they are being pressured into donating. If the company wants to look good through donations, then let the company make the donation and not rely on the employees of said company to do so. If they want to publicize that their employees support charities, they might be better off doing something along the lines of our CFC (Combined Federal Campaign, I believe). Each employee who wants to donate anything can, and they can choose their own charity from a huge list of Federally approved charities (these are ones that meet certain criteria, ie: minimum % of donations actually goes to the stated cause and not to salaries/upkeep. The list is large enough and has most of the national charities on it, and still has local ones too, so that anyone who may want to donate can normally find their charity on the list. Then my company simply promotes that X% of their employees support charities or gives back to the community (ie: last figure here was 89% of employees donate through the CFC).
Would this be something you could address to your HR department? I'm thinking that if you feel this much pressure, then others might, and the company may be setting itself up for a potential lawsuit of some sort. Not sure, not up on all that HR stuff, but it may be something to look into.
In the meantime -- Hang in there girl! And come vent here as often as you need to.
CountriGal
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