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Yea I find it distasteful. My wife's boss has "optional jeans friday". If you want to wear jeans you have to donate $5 every Friday to some charity.... that her boss is involved in. This is not a company policy, just a 'policy' in her group. Also, not a small firm, but a large accounting company. I told my wife that to me, that sounded unethical at best, perhaps illegal at worst, and potentially grounds for her boss to get fired. She's not willing to raise a stink. If it were me, I'd refuse the $5.
Where I work we also have optional jeans Fridays. We pay $1. We also have days that we can wear different colored shirts, also for $1. And when we are having a fund raiser we can wear both for $2. The money goes into a fund to help employees who need it, or to the charity we are supporting. We also have days where food is served in the break room...breakfast burritos and such...for $1...which also goes into the fund. I think $5 is a bit much but nobody minds paying $1. Oh yeah...I work for Walmart. I don't know if other stores do this or not.
Many corporations support charities, and do the "pay to dress down on Fridays" optional activity, where the money donated in exchange for dressing down goes to a given charity. My SO's company, a multinational insurer, does the pay-to-wear-jeans-on-Fridays thing, and the money goes to March of Dimes.
I don't see the problem. If you don't want to donate to March of Dimes for whatever reason, you don't participate in the fundraiser. It's not like it's required, and you don't HAVE to wear jeans to work.
Showers - aren't meant to subsidize a low-income household's expenses. They're just parties, people bring gifts in celebration of major life events. Again, if you don't want to provide a gift, don't go to the party.
I also find a lifted bedframe to be critical. It provides valuable under-bed storage options...good use of space.
For you, perhaps not; for me, yes it's a bit too far.
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Originally Posted by chicagotodc
Yea I find it distasteful. My wife's boss has "optional jeans friday". If you want to wear jeans you have to donate $5 every Friday to some charity.... that her boss is involved in. This is not a company policy, just a 'policy' in her group. Also, not a small firm, but a large accounting company. I told my wife that to me, that sounded unethical at best, perhaps illegal at worst, and potentially grounds for her boss to get fired. She's not willing to raise a stink. If it were me, I'd refuse the $5.
It's NOT illegal nor unethical, nor any reason for her boss to be fired.
The donation is OPTIONAL for those that choose to break with the normal dress code, and the money goes to charity, big deal.
Refuse to donate, don't break dress code, it's really that simple.
I have no bed frame because using one makes the bed too high for my arthritic knees, not because I'm cheap. I am cheap, btw
I buy ONLY clothing that is $1.00 on Thursdays at the thrift store because I'm cheap.
I have two pairs of shoes because I'm cheap and don't want to step on scorpions. If we didn't have scorpions I'd only have one pair of shoes. A person only needs one pair. Plus, I'm cheap. Did I mention that?
I only bank where there are NO fees.
I have paid for cars that are in their teens.
I have no credit card debt.
I don't go out.
I don't drink soda.
I don't waste money on crap. I only buy what I "need" and it's usually from garage sales or on sale with coupons at the store.
I only have one TV with limited cable.
I don't have Netflix. If I do watch Hulu it's on the free channel.
I like the idea of a day a week to pay to dress down. It's a good cause and one people would be likely to put their money toward. As long as the money is actually going to a good cause, then it's good for a community overall.
Regarding selling stuff at work, I am thankful that it's not pushed. The parents leave the booklets in a designated area, and you choose to buy or not. No one pesters you. The only thing I ever bought was cookie dough, and every year I buy a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies from one of the guys in my office. Well, from his daughter
Like a previous poster said, when I was a Girl Scount (in the 80's) we went door to door. Selling at work was a big no no and also considered cheating. I do get that it may not be as safe nowadays though.
Frugal/cheap:
Not so much my choice, but rather I had no other choice (well, to stay in an abusive marriage). Anyhow, when I finally scraped up enough to get this apartment, I had no money for any furniture. I was given a few things when my dad cleaned my grandparents house out, though. I slept on an air mattress that my aunt gave me, for a year. I had a 19" (or smaller?) TV (still have it, in the bedroom now) that I had on an end table also given to me by my aunt, and I had no couch or recliner so I sat in a kitchen chair to watch TV in the living room. It was a year before I could afford a cheap flimsy $80 mattress, which I put on the floor (I do have an actual bed now, and got a new mattress when I bought it), and it was 5 years before I could afford a discontinued model (read = cheap) couch and recliner.
I have no bed frame because using one makes the bed too high for my arthritic knees, not because I'm cheap. I am cheap, btw
I buy ONLY clothing that is $1.00 on Thursdays at the thrift store because I'm cheap.
I have two pairs of shoes because I'm cheap and don't want to step on scorpions. If we didn't have scorpions I'd only have one pair of shoes. A person only needs one pair. Plus, I'm cheap. Did I mention that?
I only bank where there are NO fees.
I have paid for cars that are in their teens.
I have no credit card debt.
I don't go out.
I don't drink soda.
I don't waste money on crap. I only buy what I "need" and it's usually from garage sales or on sale with coupons at the store.
I only have one TV with limited cable.
I don't have Netflix. If I do watch Hulu it's on the free channel.
I don't eat take out.
Do you live like this because you choose to, or because you have to?
I'm not cheap, but I do object to getting rid of anything before the end of its useful life.
I'm like this too. Especially with things like toothpaste and shampoo. I find myself squeezing out evey last drop, even adding a bit of water to the shampoo bottle to get as much out as I can.
Do you live like this because you choose to, or because you have to?
I was brought up that way. It's the only way I've ever known.
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