It's always been a big competition between UPS districts over who will raise the most money and who will make the News Letter. Who will be the "winner"????? The big "Thermometer Thing" in the hubs monitor how much has been received and God and everybody else knows who and how much has been received.
I used to monitor "God's List".
Guilt, humiliation and pressure were used at work, which resulted in many of us contributing -00000- from then on. Way to go, management.
Behind the scenes, United Way has had huge financial accounting
scandals and their new CFO, hired in 2006 to revamp the organization,
resigned already, charging that the scandal-ridden organization is exaggerating the amount of money it raised.
So much for the public's confidence. Not many of us appreciate being "coerced" into doing much of anything, considering what we already donate for our kids at school, at our churches, grocery stores are asking for donations at the check out lines and our friends e mail us for donations left and right (tho I must admit that the fight against breast cancer is admirable).
But the pressure of this United Way thing, even for those of us who are no longer employed at the company, is like a wart on your a## that won't go away. Giving out of guilt is hardly the answer. We can hang up on telemarketers but not so for the strong armed, workplace tactics.