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Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
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"No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill"
Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.
Just Always say no. Donβt feel guilt, just say no. If it is a charity that you actually care about then still say no and donate to the charity yourself. Why give GiantCorp money for charity when they are trying to bully you with psychological bullshit, making their employee have awkward interactions with customers, AND then taking a tax write off for donations they did not even make! The 50/50 gets me to, If GiantCorp wats to donate then donate donβt use it as a marketing ploy.
Sometimes the charity is also controlled by the same people
There are countries (such as the UK) were one of the main pathways for Tax Evasion for very rich people is to make a Charity or Foundation (in the UK case, you register it on one of the Channel Islands tax havens) to which one gifts the entirety of one's income (the way it works for tax evasion in the UK is that the entire tax on the money given to said Charity or Foundation is sent to them by the UK State) and then that Charity or Foundation pays for all your living expenses.
Even better, such a scheme also works for evading Inheritance Tax - you just have to change who the controlling board member of said "Charity" or "Foundation" is and now the control of all that money is in the hands of the descendant(s), tax free even if the amount is high enough that inheritance tax would be due (so, for very rich people).
But that's not even the most special part. The most special part is when some people who uses such tax evasion schemes boast very publicly that "I give all my money to Charity", since most of the public aren't aware of this scheme.
A guy looking for loose change for food being made to feel greedy by a multi-billion dollar corporation which wants to take the marketing credit for other people's charity donations.
Fuck that ... any time some idiot cashier asks me to donate to something I immediately and before they even finish, I will say 'NO THANK YOU'
If anyone ever asks me why I'm being so cheap, I remind them that the big giant corporation of a store that I am shopping at is more than capable of donating a few million dollars to the dumb charity they're trying to push on everyone.
Who's the cheap one in this scenario? Me not wanting to give a few pennies to a charity? ... or a corporation that isn't donating a million or two for no reason other than that it is chump change to them?
"Idiot cashier".... you're such a jackass.
They're just doing their job. No one cares why you don't want to. No need to have a whole speech prepared.
If anyone ever asks me
If people are actually asking, then sounds like yes, there is a need to have a speech prepared.
And if your grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.
Just be nice and have the common decency of letting them do their jobs and finish their sentences.
In fairness to cashiers, they're not the ones spearheading these campaigns. They're in the same boat as you except that their job security is contingent upon them presenting a donation option.
Yes, I fully understand that ... the ones that bug me are the young new workers who haven't learned the realities of these dumb marketing tricks and instead look at you like a cheap angry old man for not wanting to donate. It usually takes them about a week or two before the reality sets in that most people don't like these marketing ploys ... then it takes another two weeks for them to figure out why ... then they finally become the sullen cashier that mechanically goes through the motions of asking and then not really caring what your response is.
The wording in your first comment suggests that you think they're "idiots" and you interrupt them for asking for the donation that they're obligated to ask for
