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Originally posted by alphaalpha
now i would be VERY upset if i had to give up my job even for the day for someone else to raise money for charity.
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Why would you be giving up your job?
i'm puzzled b/c I didn't see this mentioned.
If you're talking about the McDonalds comments... I don't think anyone was serious, but it's more a comparison about what else could be done with your time to make the same amount of money that doesn't involve playing in traffic and begging for money.
As I said earlier, if people make money from canning, good for them, but it's not something that i'd support or give money to.
For the people who give 10s or 20s... they've gotta know someone that's involved with THON or have some other tie to it. Who else, no matter how wealthy (being that many wealthy are also very stingy!), would just randomly give out 10s or 20s to people on the street?
Outside of State College (where PSU is located) and people who went there or know something about it, people don't know what THON is. I didn't know what it was until I saw someone talking about it on GC. And I live in an area with lots of PSU alumni!
Also, when people are canning, usually you don't even have enough time to see what they're canning for. Usually I just see the Penn State logo. Which, as a die hard Pitt person, is enough to turn me away
I'm also always wary to give to canners b/c you really don't know where the money is actually going. There are many people out there that will just take the money for themselves. If they're wearing greek letters, it might make them slightly more credible in my eyes, but I still know of chapters that do it as a fundraiser for themselves- give like 20% to charity and keep the rest for their chapter or something like that.