The clipboard people in town looking for donations

Irishguy16

Why are these people so forceful?

I remember a few years ago I was in town and I got stopped by one of these workers. She talked me through the process for a charity, 3 euro a week,165 a year and so on. I told her that I was moving to America in two weeks and I wouldn't be available, then she continued, that's only 45 cent a day.....she literally wouldn't leave me alone, even following me up the street looking for my credit card details. She literally wouldn't stop for the best part of ten minutes. She even stopped my friend aswell looking for more attention

Do you know anyone in these kind of jobs, and how much a money actually goes to the charities?

I have literally avoided them at every occasion ever since

gerrybbadd

Literally?

MRnotlob606

Which town ?

Banjo String

Chugger, literally.

better call saul

Self serving cûnts

ArtyC

You havent perfected the look yet....

deise08

I was talking to one who worked for a particular group who told me that..

they get paid anyway but whoever they sign up they get a bonus for.

they aren't allowed to sign up students because 'students are poor.'

they aren't allowed to sign up anybody under 21 I think because they're seen as flaky!

I was gobsmacked.

sh1tstirrer

Ask them for their bank details first when they refuse say it works both ways

sh1tstirrer

deise08 wrote: »

I was talking to one who told me that..

they get paid anyway but whoever they sign up they get a bonus for.

they aren't allowed to sign up students because 'students are poor.'

they aren't allowed to sign up anybody under 21 I think because they're seen as flaky!

I was gobsmacked.

Lies, they signed up my daughter when she was 17 and going to DCU :mad:

FunLover18

deise08 wrote: »

I was talking to one who worked for a particular group who told me that..

they get paid anyway but whoever they sign up they get a bonus for.

they aren't allowed to sign up students because 'students are poor.'

they aren't allowed to sign up anybody under 21 I think because they're seen as flaky!

I was gobsmacked.

Depends on the charity. I did door to door and got an hourly rate, no bonuses. But was working with someone who had done the chugging and said that they only got a commission which explains why they're so eager.

Lau2976

According to Amnesty ireland this is how they are paid:

Basic Salary of €9/hour, + Performance Related Pay and other benefits.

Spanish Eyes

Who'd give their credit card details to someone on the street FGS??

Omackeral

One such a**hole knocked at my door looking for me to sign up to a charity and I stopped him in his tracks politely and said ''I wont be giving out any bank details at my door so if this is heading that way, I'm just letting you know''. He was disgusted and said but it's only such and such a week and asked if I drink and tried to equate the price of a pint to the donation. I said I do drink the odd time but I also worked Christmas Day this year and do 12 hour shifts every time i go to work, so forgive me if I have a catch up with mates the odd time. He then got all defensive and start showing me figures on his iPad. ''For just 85cent a da...'' Hold on, I said. You have the nerve to call to my door and challenge me and yet here you are with a god damn tablet? Touch on!

I do help charities but it's on my time and when I want to and for causes that I choose.

whatdoicare

Someone signed me up minus bank details for a joke years ago - my ghod was I harrassed by these ****ers for weeks, I had to get a new number to get away from them, two or three times a day every day asking for my bank details. I never found out which of my so called friends signed me up. :mad:

Super-Rush

Town?

Pig Ignorant Paddy

Amnesty International always seem to attract the very worst of them. Spotty students with beards who you'd dislike anyway out of principal.

Can I have a word, mate?

You can have two: fcuk and you.

FunLover18

Omackeral wrote: »

One such a**hole knocked at my door looking for me to sign up to a charity and I stopped him in his tracks politely and said ''I wont be giving out any bank details at my door so if this is heading that way, I'm just letting you know''. He was disgusted and said but it's only such and such a week and asked if I drink and tried to equate the price of a pint to the donation. I said I do drink the odd time but I also worked Christmas Day this year and do 12 hour shifts every time i go to work, so forgive me if I have a catch up with mates the odd time. He then got all defensive and start showing me figures on his iPad. ''For just 85cent a da...'' Hold on, I said. You have the nerve to call to my door and challenge me and yet here you are with a god damn tablet? Touch on!

I do help charities but it's on my time and when I want to and for causes that I choose.

Common enough tactic; you wouldn't miss the price you pay for a coffee/pint therefore you wouldn't miss the same amount if it went towards a better cause. I can see the logic behind it but I can also see why people react like you did.

I would be very surprised if it was was his personal iPad, probably provided by employers but agreed, a stupid move, they didn't think that through at all.

deise08

Gone are the days when charities were volunteers

Oops69

They're 'Concern arseholes ' ,let's be honest , that's what Comes into everyone's mind when you see them eyeing you in the distance , call a spade a spade.

Letree

I hate that final 10 metres or so when they have singled you out and are smiling at you as you approach them.

BetterThanThou

I briefly worked as one of those charity scratchcard salesmen, didn't get paid, but I got to keep 40% of all sales. I wasn't your typical annoying **** who'd follow you down the street till you bought one, I'd ask, and if someone said no, it meant no, I'd occasionally spark up a conversation with someone first. I actually made a decent bit of cash from it, though, I was "working" in a wealthy area of Dublin. Depending on the time of day, I could bring in up to 15 euro an hour. Though, it really showed me how little of a donation to this particular charity(and probably most) actually gets to someone who needs it. I took 40% of everything, there was 2 other people who got a direct cut of my sales, and probably many more who got an indirect cut. I'd be surprised if 30c of a 3 euro scratchcard actually goes to helping someone. I'd pool up any of my cut I didn't need and either donate it directly to an animal shelter or spend it on sandwiches for the homeless. After a few months I just couldn't take it anymore, it was easy money, but I could no longer help a company like that take advantage of people in need.

branie2

They remind me of the ex-leper in Monty Python's Life of Brian

Frynge

I love it when I see the concern lads eyeing me up as a potential target from 50 ft. I always make sure eye contact is established from a distance so that they are ready to pounce once I'm upon them.

Chugger; do you have a minute to talk?

Me; ah is it trocaire?

Chugger; no, concern.

Me; yeah, me neither.



Couple weeks ago had one of these asshats call to the door of a friends house I was in, they keep telling me how it was the right thing to do and all I had to do was give them my bank details. Wouldn't accept that the owner of the house wasn't around and that I wouldn't be in a position to sign them up for anything.

Oh no, wait, that was an airtricity dickhead.

Copa Mundial

I usually string them along pretending I might donate, then tell them sorry, the smallest I have is a 20.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

These asshats target the wrong people

I seem to get targeted all the time by them even though I'm walking quite fast wearing a work uniform on the way to work !!!!!!! . I try to ignore them and keep going or give an blank stare until they get the message.

"Can talk to you for a minute? "
Nope. .. that's valuable drinking time ! Bye now!

Dirty Steve

Letree wrote: »

I hate that final 10 metres or so when they have singled you out and are smiling at you as you approach them.

It's the eye contact.

Then you divert you attention and have a look of complete disgust on your face.
Works a lot of the time.

MadsL

Oh come on - the solution is really easy. Read the name of the charity and say "Oh, I'm already donating monthly through my bank account, but keep up the good work!"

Enjoy the cheery "thank you" and escape.

What are they gonna do, try and sign you up again? If everyone did this they would soon disappear off the streets.

chrysagon

develop a look........works for me..

Grand Moff Tarkin

Charity starts and ends at home.

Dirty Steve

MadsL wrote: »

Oh come on - the solution is really easy. Read the name of the charity and say "Oh, I'm already donating monthly through my bank account, but keep up the good work!"

Enjoy the cheery "thank you" and escape.

What are they gonna do, try and sign you up again? If everyone did this they would soon disappear off the streets.

So you'd rather lie than give them a dirty look that says "fook off"?

What is the world coming to..