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Old 08-22-2012, 04:53 PM
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Back in the 90's a charity did this in my town every year. I worked for a large corporation, and two years in a row they came in and grabbed a particular co-worker off the work floor, took him to the headquarters, and he had to call people to pledge enough to bail him out. One year he was assigned to his weekly 4 hours per week of taking irate supervisor calls on that particular afternoon ("shit shift" -- everyone in the department had to take a weekly four-hour shift to get yelled at by customers who wanted to speak to a supervisor to blame for their credit card problems). I had the morning shit shift that day. When he got "arrested" at lunch, no one would take his afternoon shit shift for him, so I had to take the calls all day until he came back at 4:30 p.m. laughing and joking about how much fun they were having at the charity center. He got paid for those 4 1/2 hours, and the next week, he wouldn't work my shit shift for me to make up for the week before. I guess it left a bad taste in my mouth because the charity didn't consider how this prank would affect the jailbird's co-workers. Gracious, it's been 20 years, and I'm still cranky about it. But, I do donate to charity regularly.
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