PAPER BRUHS!

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by MAN FOR CHANGE

Some in my family think I hit the lottery so they ask for money all the time.

Has anyone run into this problem?

* nice diversion - lol* My cousins called us the "rich" relatives, because we lived in a middle class neighborhood and were college educated. I mean my adult cousin would charge my mother (his great-aunt) to mow her lawn or wash her car. This used to tick me off so bad that I told my Mom, I would rather you pay a stanger than that trifling person.

Now this cousin's mother was my first cousin and she was more like an older sister. So I never minded offereing her money when she needed it, because she looked out for me when I was growing up.

I think I may have mentioned this before on GC, the brother of the aforementioned cousin asked if he could use my daughter's info to get his phone turned back on. He even called my daughter to ask for money, because he knew better than to call me.

[ladygreek]

And I will say for the umpteenth time. Some of our orgs have strict rules about what we can and cannot say to a prospect about intake, and when and where we can say it. The internet is strictly forbidden. And even in-person is forbidden in some orgs. And there are valid reasons for this.

One example is a few years ago a prospect was turned down by her org of choice. She filed a lawsuit. Her case? That a member of the org had given her info and encouragement on a message board that implied she should have no problem being accepted since she had the GPA, service, etc.--the member was just trying to be nice, because she herself was a neo. The prospect had printed out the MB conversation to prove her point. Luckily the org had a better attorney and the case did not go to court. But rules were put in place to prevent it from happening again.

None of us want to risk losing our pins behind a propect's curiousity when there are so many other places to do research beginning with out national websites and authorized history books.

So for many of us, it is not a matter of being mean, it is a matter of following our own protocol.

[AKA_Monet]

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

None of us want to risk losing our pins (and pearls) behind a propect's curiousity when there are so many other places to do research beginning with out national websites and authorized history books.

So for many of us, it is not a matter of being mean, it is a matter of following our own protocol.

Originally Posted by ladygreek

None of us want to risk losing our pins (and pearls) behind a propect's curiousity when there are so many other places to do research beginning with out national websites and authorized history books.

So for many of us, it is not a matter of being mean, it is a matter of following our own protocol.

Originally Posted by ladygreek

None of us want to risk losing our pins (and pearls) behind a propect's curiousity when there are so many other places to do research beginning with out national websites and authorized history books.

So for many of us, it is not a matter of being mean, it is a matter of following our own protocol.

[neosoul]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

And I will say for the umpteenth time. Some of our orgs have strict rules about what we can and cannot say to a prospect about intake, and when and where we can say it.

None of us want to risk losing our pins behind a propect's curiousity when there are so many other places to do research beginning with out national websites and authorized history books.

So for many of us, it is not a matter of being mean, it is a matter of following our own protocol.

a lil louder for the folks in the nosebleed section