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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I have sold coupon books and twice did the "send underprivileged children to the movies" fund raiser. Note: the first one wasn't too bad. The Underprivileged children was hard. I got fired the second time I did that one because I wouldn't argue with the callers. That one was sponsored by a local club/bar. If someone said they wouldn't donate due to the alcohol factor, I would just say thank you for your time and hang up. My boss said I was supposed to tell them none of it went to the club and yada yada yada.
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I also got fired from a job once for something like that. When I was in college I worked as the night call at a bloodbank, being called in overnight to do deliveries to hospitals for emergencies. It was an ideal job for a college student. Part of my job was to find the needed blood if we didn't have it in stock. This usually meant getting it sent in from another city if there was time, or calling up donors if there wasn't time.
One night I got a call about a 10 year old girl with leukemia who needed a rare type fast and we didn't have enough. It was about 1:00 AM Monday morning and I called in the staff and started calling up donors to come in and they kept saying no. It was a bad time. They had to go to work in the morning, etc. All sorts of reasons.
When the hospital called that the girl had died I got mad and started calling the donors back and explaining that their refusal had killed her. I guess one of them called in on me because within an hour my boss was there to fire me. Fortunately I did have time to call a lot of them back before they got rid of me.
They were right to fire me. I was angry and acting foolishly and probably making it harder to get donors in the future. But somehow I've never felt bad about what I did. I begged and pleaded with those people to come in and help that girl. I'd called in a lot of donors in the months that I worked there and I was often told no but the other times there were always enough people who would come in that it was never really a problem. This time I didn't get a single donor.
Barry