The Pink Pins

So this week we are doing a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness month. Donate $5, you can wear jeans for a day, or donate $10 and you can wear jeans for the whole entire week! Wearing jeans is a suchhhh a great way to get people to donate, because who doesn't love wearing jeans to work?! And all week? done and done!! There have been a few great people who have opted to donated more "just because", which I think is awesome. The President of the company (who happens to be a woman) donated $100, and has yet to wear jeans all week. I like this woman.

Now let's talk about the ones I don't, because let's face it, that's what this blog is really all about! :) There are 4 different people in the office that are collecting donations. I am one of them, natch. I've always helped out to collect since it makes sense since I'm in the main area and sees the most amount of people. Of course, this is when the lobby becomes a huge cluster of people. And not to mention, rude people. I literally have people who come up to my desk and throw their money at me. I have people who will stand there just holding their $10, without saying what they want. I have people who tell me they want a pin before I could get them one in exchange for donating.

Who are these people!? You're doing a nice gesture, and in exchange for that you get to be rewarded for wearing jeans for an entire week! Hold your horses and be nice to me! No one is forcing you to donate. You could be a real jerk and wear jeans when you didn't donate and no one would know! How am I to know if you're donating, ordering lunch, or just there to ask me a question!? Please just say something, don't just stand there expecting me to know what you want!

One day, someone will politely come up to my desk, and say "Hi Ruby, how are you? I would like to donate money for the Breast Cancer Awareness fundraiser." I would smile and reply "Ok! Let me get your pin. And how much do you want to donate?"

Sighhh.....

Yeah right, who are we kidding... I would never respond like that ;)