she just left, she remarked that the form is still sitting on my desk and that i should take it home and talk with pogosuzy about what to buy, maybe even split the cost of a $50 chocolate popcorn tin (WTF i'm not made of money ).Pandora said:Tell her you'd be happy to buy her kids popcorn as soon as she buys some from yours.
Edit: If I wanna buy something then I'll buy it. If not I tell them I'll look at it later and then quickly forget about it.
F33nX said:it's one thing to leave an order form on a table for people to discreetly order something, but to be bullied into buying something to support her son, when HE has been told by his scoutmaster or whatever to sell it himself (as an honorable thing to do), is pretty much where i draw the line
Candy said:I had a similar situation happen a few weeks back. Almost exactly what you are describing. I just looked at her and said: "I just bought a house... I have no extra money right now - I'm sorry."
I felt like saying: You are lucky you still work here. But I smiled and apologized and moved on. My Mom adopted his class. Sucker.
normally that would work, but in her case this is something she'd hold against me for all eternity and rub it in every chance she got. i'm going to have to work across the hall from her for probably a lot longer than i'm willing to tolerate her, so i don't know if $20 for popcorn is decent enough for hush moneyThorn Bird said:"no, thank you, but good luck with that fundraiser!"
i hate bad parents who give good parents a bad rep.
F33nX said:she just left, she remarked that the form is still sitting on my desk and that i should take it home and talk with pogosuzy about what to buy, maybe even split the cost of a $50 chocolate popcorn tin (WTF i'm not made of money ).
should i just wipe my ass on the sheet and consider it my contribution? she's already gotten close to $80 on there, the kid's shirt can't cost more than that
Candy said:I had a similar situation happen a few weeks back. Almost exactly what you are describing. I just looked at her and said: "I just bought a house... I have no extra money right now - I'm sorry."
I felt like saying: You are lucky you still work here. But I smiled and apologized and moved on. My Mom adopted his class. Sucker.
ChikkenNoodul said:I guess I'm the strange one, I much prefer being an adult
Pandora said:Yeah just stick it back on her desk or something. One of the owners of the last company I worked at would do that all the time for her kids stuff. Talk about pressure. But I'd just put it back in her mailbox. If she says something just tell her money's tight or something.
F33nX said:i really don't have any extra money to be throwing at stuff like this, and i told her as much. she said "well your boyfriend makes more than you, maybe you could talk him into splitting a tin with you" (OMGWTFBBQ). if it were a walkathon for cancer or aids or domestic abuse cases sure. but to buy her kid a shirt? because she'd rather spend the money on stuff with her boyfriend? gimme a break.
i know she's a total psycho douchebag. i've already given her tons of social cues that she is not a friend of mine and that i don't enjoy her company outside of the work environment.Thorn Bird said:wtf?? you've got a selfish psycho on your hands. i would NEVER give money to her, regardless of the consequence. all she could do was not like me, and if goes further than that, there'd be a small problem.
same principle. i'm wouldn't want to buy candy because she's a lazy/cheap mother, i'd do it if the cause were greater than a shirt (plus the bonus swag he'd get if he sold more than $200)wr3kt said:What if she was selling reece's peanut butter cups?
F33nX said:same principle. i'm wouldn't want to buy candy because she's a lazy/cheap mother, i'd do it if the cause were greater than a shirt (plus the bonus swag he'd get if he sold more than $200)
um, yeah.Bubbles said:I can't believe you just called Candy a lazy cheap mother.