Anyone hate the charity workers on the street?

vibe666 · 02-02-2005 09:07PM

I've perfected my 'undertaker' look. yo u know, the huge wrestling guy who used to get out of a coffin to get in the ring (before he cleaned up his act).

I just stare through them like I'd be happy to stab them in the guts just to warm my hands up. i don't even try and go round them. very rarly get bothered and when i do they soon stop. i think it may help that I'm 6'5" and built like a brick sh1thouse.

the only other time i've used it is for xmas shopping on grafton street, but that was only out of necessity.

I'm not always like that though, i always let old ladies (and usually young ones) have my seat on the bus.

Zaphod B · 03-02-2005 01:03AM

RasTa wrote:

Typical Irish moan moan moan moan
"O we get stoped on the street on our way to nowhere"

Yea its all a scam all them feckers stand there in the cold getting told to feck off by most ppl who walk by them but they magically make 1,000 quid a week. Like all the blacks get cars when they come into the country.

No i dont or ever have worked for the company but i respect them for what there doing. Its a tough job and at least the money if not all of it is going to a good cause. Not like the cowards on here who are probaly lying saying they ignore them or "no im foreign"

Right. Where do I start?

I'm English. I also don't like being harrassed by people who are getting paid under the pretence of collecting for charities. I wasn't aware of any Irish ancestors but obviously I need to research the family trees... being averse to ****, clearly a Celtic thing...

They stand in the cold and get told to feck off? They get paid to stand in the cold and get told to feck off, and they get paid more than they would flipping burgers in Macdonalds. At least with the former occupation you get fresh air rather than the pleasant aroma of grease... so why should I respect them again?

Ah I remember now, because they're collecting for charity. But haven't we already established that other people do the same thing for no payment at all? Yeah, I thought so.

Finally, why would we lie about ignoring them or pretending to be foreign? How does cowardice fit into the picture?

Good night.

SouperComputer · 03-02-2005 01:07AM

AlcoholicA wrote:

a little of topic but there was one collecting for some rape organisation, and i was listening to my cd player and she stopped me and starting telling me how bad rape was...as if i just fell from the sky, anyway as soon as she opened her mouth the song Cannibal Corpse - Stripped Raped & Stangled came on my discman... i was like eh, i have to go and she asked what i was listening to!..... i didnt tell her though, shud have.

classic! hammer smashed face would have been good too!

kida · 03-02-2005 09:27AM

Same answer every day to Have you got a moment please?
I Feign a little interest then say.
"I didn't last week, I didn't yesterday,I didn't at lunchtime. Now F*** Off"

Kingsize · 03-02-2005 09:53AM

"Like all the blacks get cars when they come into the country."
I CANT HELP LAUGHING AT THIS!!
I know what you(rasta) were getting at & its not true admittedly but the way its phrased here just makes it seem more hilarious!!
Imagine earth wind & fire coming to Ireland on a world tour getting presented with a boxy 1990's toyota each !!based purely on the colour of their skin!!
(or maybe you meant the all blacks which would just be really silly!!

DArcy · 03-02-2005 11:29AM

They don't even say "have you got a moment please?".

I get the "Hi...are you a student?" opener. "No...I'm the MD of a huge multinational corporation. I just choose to dress like this during the week so that charity workers will hassle me for money".... :mad:

theCzar · 03-02-2005 03:20PM

some day if i have the time, i'm going to pick one and bother them all day long, follow them around, keep asking for their time, try and follow them home see how freaked they get.

nlgbbbblth · 04-02-2005 01:01AM

Chuggers rely on bullying and intimidation to get people to sign up/contribute

they should be castrated / spayed

I despise them

I usually do the following

- say "yeah, my arse, your face"

- or else cover my face with a newspaper as I walk past them

In Blackrock I saw a guy cross the road when he saw a Concern Volunteer approach him. He then shouted over "Look I'm crossing the road to avoid you - do not get the message?"

StupidLikeAFox · 04-02-2005 01:03AM

I always find if you ask a little bit about the charity, how its run, what they do, what does the seller do etc and jus as they start to get excited about making a sale pull a legger and tear off down the street. Bonus points if ya get a free sticker

tony 2 tone · 04-02-2005 01:16AM

replytohere2004 wrote:

I always say "sorry, no english" in a foreign accent. Works every time.

I go with some thing like that, except I dont bother with the accent. That really pisses them off.
"Nah mate I don't speak English, sorry"

Red Alert · 04-02-2005 10:31AM

The Hanly Centre are bit hard to take. Try working in Grafton Street for the summer - you'd think they'd leave people working in the shops (and they're easy enough to spot) alone.

Nightwish · 04-02-2005 12:02PM

my friend worked for concern in dublin city centre but quit it after 2 days cos she just couldnt harass people. She was taught how to get peoples attention, to waffle off a sob story about a village in somalia and to keep talking so that the person doesnt have time to talk back or ask questions. she earned E12 an hour for this. its known as "Charity Mugging" or "Chugging" in the UK. Its a disgraceful way of getting donations. First of all anyone in their right mind wouldnt hand over their bank details to a complete stranger on the street. The amount of them on Liffey St and Henry St is unbelievable. its a game of dodge the chugger walking around dublin city centre. i was having an awful day in college one day and one guy followed me down henry st talking, talking, talking, i turned around and exploded "im a f*cking satanist, let them f*cking starve". he was so stunned he just stopped in his tracks and walked off in the other direction. i felt bad in retrospect for saying something so horrible but it felt damn good at the time! They came down to kilkenny for 2wks before xmas and one followed me from work to where i go to buy my lunch and waited outside. now thats harassment...all his chugger friends stopped me in the space of 3-4 mins

04-02-2005 12:40PM

Charity workers are prostitutes.

Lump · 04-02-2005 12:41PM

I wish that was true.

John

Keyzer · 04-02-2005 12:42PM

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captainplanet · 04-02-2005 07:52PM

i'm sorry, whats wrong with being polite to people? very few people deserve to be treated like ****. have some respect.
how many times have you actually just gone straight past charity workers when you're not in a rush. ok so they are earning a lot of money and it'd be better if they wernt profiting out of other peoples pain but at least they are doing something to help.

theCzar · 04-02-2005 08:35PM

captainplanet wrote:

whats wrong with being polite to people? very few people deserve to be treated like ****

very few people indeed, "charity" collectors are definitely on my list of people to treat like crap. It's their job to pester thousands of people in the hope a small percentage of them cough up some guilt money. it's like spam.

if it doesn't bother you at all to be asked the same thing 3 times in 30 seconds... lucky you

daveirl · 04-02-2005 09:07PM

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Our man in Havana · 04-02-2005 09:30PM

Don't these parasites need a permit from the council to collect money? Complain to the cops/council anout them.

iguana · 04-02-2005 10:09PM

I detest them, but they aren't all con artists. Some of them work for a flat rate, the Oxfam and Concern ones anyway. The genuine charities will give you a break down of the figures, who earns what and how much is used in projects. just ring them and ask.
And those ones also often operate on a two complaints and you're out policy to the collectors. So if one grabs or follows you get their name and complain to the head office, don't just moan about it.
And no matter how high and mighty we are about it, very few of us can afford to give 39 hours a week to charity for free. Even relief workers, shelter managers, helpline managers and counsellors have bills to pay and families to support. I work for a charity, not in a way that hassles anyone like that, but as much as I'd love to be able to turn away my salary every month I have rent of €900 a month, plus food, electricity and phone bills, and I also like to treat myself to the exact same things everyone on this thread does. I'm also hoping to buy a house this year.
That doesn't mean I don't make an enormous contribution to the cause I work for, my salary is justified by the return brought in by my work. I could also achieve more than three times it in the commercial sector. Being paid for my work does not make me a con artist.
I would have thought however that €11 an hour was a bit excessive. Then again how many people on this thread said they couldn't manage to do the work for more than 2 days, I guess it's an employees market?

Corruptedmorals · 04-02-2005 11:08PM

bopper wrote:

Although im 18 most people tell me i look younger, so if they ask me to stop i just tell them im only 17 and they dont want to talk to me then.

Really? Where do you live? I'm 16, I look younger and I get stopped all the time..usually by those scratchcard guys...I have to grab my friends away...they're all conscientious and stuff.

ExoduS 18.11 · 04-02-2005 11:56PM

Yea getting asked for 5 minutes of your time sucks alot more than walking 4 miles a day for water. Or getting raped for that matter

05-02-2005 12:13AM

ExoduS 18.11 wrote:

Yea getting asked for 5 minutes of your time sucks alot more than walking 4 miles a day for water. Or getting raped for that matter

5 minutes, 7 times a week, 52 weeks a year = 1,820 minutes. Imagine what you could do with those precious minutes.

These people dont do what they do to make a differance, they did it for money. Nothing more.
How can anyone justify paying these people 12 euro an hour, if they were really serious about making a differance then they would do it ona voluntary basis.

StupidLikeAFox · 05-02-2005 12:21AM

But wouldnt it be really hard to find loadsa people to do it voluntarily? it must obv be paying off if theyre still doing it

05-02-2005 12:25AM

ColHol wrote:

But wouldnt it be really hard to find loadsa people to do it voluntarily? it must obv be paying off if theyre still doing it

Im not agueing that it would be diffficult to find people to do it for free. Im just saying that people who defend these assholes are ignorant if they believe that they are doing it to make a differance.

ExoduS 18.11 · 05-02-2005 12:34AM

You cant just group all the people "who look for five minutes of your time" in the same group. People that go out for concern or oxfam (on a voluntary basis) or anything similar for that matter deserve a tiny bit off respect for what they're doing. Not to be told to f88k off.

Stephen · 05-02-2005 12:40AM

Any one of them that does not accept "no" for an answer does deserve to be told to fu<k off.

StupidLikeAFox · 05-02-2005 12:59AM

Deleted User wrote:

Im not agueing that it would be diffficult to find people to do it for free. Im just saying that people who defend these assholes are ignorant if they believe that they are doing it to make a differance.

well it would come down to the individual in that case. Like i know guys who used to do it and got savage commision for it, but thats it, commission, so that was their incentive. I wouldnt tar all the charity workers with the one brush though

leeroybrown · 05-02-2005 01:13AM

As a rule I never give money to any street charity collectors. When they harass me in the street I just hold out my hand (as in stop), say no and keep walking. My view of the matter is that if people want to give money to charity they should do it through a direct means that goes directly to a major reputable organisation and does not get ripped to shreds by collectors and middlemen. Luckily, I'm the sort of cold impersonal character who has no problem ignoring someone even if they are being nice to me.

Likewise I refuse to deal with anyone who cold calls to my door (to the point of having given up the chance of a small saving of money in the past) and politely get rid of the. If anyone cold calls my phone I just ask them where they got my number, for their company details and request that they do not try to ring me again. No one ever has but if they did I'd report them to the data comissioner.

Repli · 05-02-2005 02:01AM

i swear to god im gonna bring a gun into town one day and shoot every one of them, they hassle me going into work, they hassle me on my lunch break, on my way back from lunch break, on my way home from work, 5 days a week, same people, to be honest anyone who deliberately gets in your way on a busy enough grafton st deserves to be shot in the head :mad: :mad:

Anyone hate the charity workers on the street?

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