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Connex - 2005-10-10 07:50:36
Wait 'til she comes running back down that corridor, bursting into the office singing your name out aloud....
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Susan Pouter - 2005-10-10 08:08:12
I know! I would just rather say how much money do you want? I don't want the crap, just tell me. Stop the insanity.
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artgnome - 2005-10-10 08:11:14
I just had to sell magazine subscriptions for my kid. the guilt and pressure the school puts on me and the social stigma it puts on my kid if he doesn't sell any is ridiculous. and get this...this is a private school where we already pay tuition! gah.
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Chunk - 2005-10-10 09:11:48
Chocolate is good. What you don't sell you can eat...or smear on your partner and lick it off
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Still won't buy that pocorn - 2005-10-10 09:41:31
The schools here offer real tasty baked goods for sale and lots of wrapping paper. Buy the boy scout popcorn. Them's the best! At least it's edible.Soon the girl scouts will be peddlin' them awesome thin mint cookies!! YUM!!!
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humungus - 2005-10-10 10:05:40
I can't think of those things without gagging. When I was a kid once, I got my grubby paws into one of those tins and was happily munching down the sugar-coated crap therein when I discovered a worm crawling through my fingers... In fact, everything was wormy. Then I could feel them moving in my mouth. Hurl-city.
Now I equate anything in a tin can as deees-gusting.
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The Boy - 2005-10-10 10:07:54
Seventh... as in the seventh sign of the apocalypse is when the popcorn arrives at your desk. hey cut the lady a break... because pimpin' ain't easy, even if it is stale ass corn
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Shear - 2005-10-10 10:08:20
My son was a Tupper*ware pusher. The PTA decided to sell this crap for a fundraiser. Say, you wouldn't be interested in trading some cheap plastic food containers for your IRA account, would ya?
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grumblecat - 2005-10-10 10:14:31
Kids these days don't sell anything like we used to sell. I remember selling notecards, OK that one was normal but what about long life lightbulbs or my favorite cases or sweet oranges.
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zoot - 2005-10-10 10:24:47
hmmm that's not fair. I work in a very very very small office. (hello- work with 7 other people). And I don't mind chatting with the others about my life during breaks and lunch, but when I'm in my cubicle I like to be left alone. But this one guy doesn't seem to understand that. When I'm busy and he's not, he likes to mosey on over to my cubicle and bother me. I mumble at him and keep working until one day he asked me if I was "happy" at the company (I have only been there just over a year). Well jeez buddy, sorry I'm not social when it's COMPANY time! I'm busy, leave me alone......
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Squeakzilla - 2005-10-10 10:50:36
Humungus, at least the worms were fresh! I wonder if that's what they mean when they say "Packed full of Protein". My job has a "no soliciting policy". So the undercover solicitors rely on careful product placement to subliminally woo their potential (prey) clientele. I think it's racketeering of some sort. Possibly a raking in billions of dollars a year in unreported income.
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Turkey - 2005-10-10 11:45:13
For all the Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving. Just don't eat me, get tofu instead!
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Groovn-girl - 2005-10-10 11:45:36
Karma is so gonna bust your ass! I know this because I just finished pimping cookies for my daughter, and luckily none of my co-workers mind purchasing sub-standard products from a child with a cause. You just wait until little Andrew is selling some crappy little knick-knack for the boy scouts trip or new jump ropes and kick balls for kindergarten. THEN karma will bust your ass!!
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Aubrey - 2005-10-10 12:08:33
Ya know, I was a Girl Scout for 12 long years, and in all that time, I had to do my own peddling of cookies. Even when they created an order form that my parents could take to work, they still refused to help me out. So, when co-workers ask me to buy stuff, I tell them I'd be more than happy to buy stuff from their kids. At this point, they generally thrust the order form and a pen in my face, at which point I smile and repeat myself (while waving the forms away): "I'd be more than happy to buy stuff FROM YOUR KID." I then give them my home address, so the kid can march his butt over to my house. One lady went so far as to bring her daughter to work one day, which I thought was cheating... ah well.
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Sandra - 2005-10-10 12:52:12
Most of those fundraising organizations are discouraging door-to-door selling these days. Times have changed, my friends.
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George - 2005-10-10 13:03:39
Story 1) I got roped into being the president of the PTA. Said to the treasurer, "Ya know, I just hate those candy sales. I don't want to send our kids out in the rain to sell crap to people that don't really want to buy it." She said, "Fine. Just let me know where you're going to come up with $5,000 for the year's activities." Story 2) One of the schools in the district said, "We hate fundraisers. If every parent would just send in $10 we'd make enough for us to run all year and we wouldnt't have to go through this." They made $350. We sent our kids out and made $10,000., kept half. Story 3) The next year we told the kids, "If you sell this stuff you'll get crappy little prizes for each 5 things you sell and we'll use all the money to buy playground equipment to replace the stuff that the schoolboard is ripping out because they're afraid of liability." We made $25,000 and kept half. It's a numbers game. 500 motivated little salespeople + parents that would rather kick in $20 and lean on grandma rather than come in and volunteer in the school for an hour = a buttload of money.
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shinji - 2005-10-10 13:21:01
Turning down some crazed co-worker parent is fine by me. I'm a sucker when the kids come to my door though. Candy bars, popcorn, cookies...stuff I end up giving away. I just can't turn down a little kid out there working for his club/group/school. Ever have to do that when you were a kid? It was a big deal for me because well...going door to door asking strangers to buy stuff is intimidating when you're 30, let alone 12. As long as it's not for the Aryan Nation's Little Helpers, I'm a softie and they know it >_<.
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Perry Como's German Crack Whore - 2005-10-10 13:29:22
Ten bucks says Popcorn Pimp and Bitch-Who-Wants-UB-Fired are evil twins. They stay up at night putting worms into old stale popcorn and worship the devil to come get UB. Oh wait..... that's what I did this weekend.....
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awittykitty - 2005-10-10 13:42:43
I think people are so tapped out with all the recent disasters that people asking for money should just consider fixing their own school. Like maybe caulking their own windows with some liquified 20 year old popcorn. Of course I'm the person who yells at panhandlers to get a job.
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Chris-The Original Chris - 2005-10-10 15:13:21
I give everyone money....except homeless people, unless they're young...most adult homeless people I give food or my cans and bottles. I have a cousin who at 18 had bounced around to all of the aunts and uncles who would take him (after torturing and killing one of our kittens my parents said that was enough) and he lives on the streets, not near me but every time I see some young person, it reminds me that there are reasons why people are out there, and they usually revolve around mental issues.
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Crazy Lady That Tries To Get You Fired... - 2005-10-10 18:16:30
AH HA!!!! You work at a LARGE OFFICE building!!! I have you under my THUMB!!!
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jafer - 2005-10-10 19:36:56
I've never believed in that shit, and never did it for my kids' sales, I figured they'd have to beg for their own money from people. I do remember a guy I worked with though, coming to my cubicle and asking for me to purchase his son's whatever it was. I told him that I didn't believe in doing that stuff at work (and forcing everybody to answer to him) and he got mad and said, well, I'll remember that when your kids are selling something. I got to tell him that because I don't believe in it, I never bring my kids' stuff to sell at work. Perhaps he realized it was true... at least it shut him up and got him the fuck out of my cubicle.
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