What charities do you dislike and why?

[hamsterjill]

118. I worked for a company that was much the same way.

Heavy-handed about it is a good way of describing it. Rolls were also taken at meetings and if you chose not to give "your fair share" you could expect a visit from someone in the personnel office asking if you really, really didn't want to give.

I refused and made it known that I would be quite upset to think that I might be passed over for promotions, etc. because I refused to give to a designated charity so that the employer could be glorified by United Way for giving "their fair share".

At first, I was the only employee who refused to give. I stood my ground. Then, someone in the accounting office figured out that the employees who were paid weekly were having their deductions taken out on a weekly basis. Those amounts sat in the employer's bank account, drawing interest, until the end of the month, when the check was cut to the United Way (sans interest). At this point, once word of that was made known, there were actually several other employees who stopped their United Way deductions.

I have, and hopefully always will have the means to, support local charities that *I* choose to support. I don't want a corporation telling me that I have to support something that I don't believe in. By supporting local charities, I can watch and see how my donations are used, etc.