Does your work (or SO's work) allow fundraising?

[lovetoscrap]

Inspired by the other fundraising rant threads!

Everywhere my husband has worked has always had a "no soliciting" policy, and that included bringing in kid's fundraising stuff to sell at work. As far as I know he has never had anyone try to sell him stuff at work--or had the forms laying around. Either the rule was well policed, or no one ever tried to get around it.


What are the rules in yours or your SO's workplace?

 

[clh2]

This is no-no for both companies that DH and I work for.

 

[Nancy]

When I worked at Wegmans it depended on the manager at the time. We had one manager that was real leniant and we could sell anything we wanted, the one that came in right after him, when I was quitting, got real strict and wouldn't allow anything even if you were off the clock.

DH's work is a "whatever you want' policy. It is a small family owned business and they don't stop any fundraising at all.

My current work is ok with it too. At any given day there are boxes of those 1.00 candy bars in the kitchen area and they sell fast!

 

[MoniqueU]

Yes but we don't really do it. My 2 girls go to a public school and we don't participate in their fundraisers. If there are some for sports we do the buyout.
My son goes to a catholic school and has fundraisers big time for football, just one of them he had to sell 400 bucks worth of ads. My husbands boss buys an ad which is nice. We also do a carwash and next up is the mexican dinner. I can't stand selling things and we don't know anyone catholic in our neighborhood it seems. Everyone here goes to 2 of these giant christian churches and sticks to their groups of friends from there.
I really do not like fundraisers and will probably just buy the mexican dinner tickets. Not fun on top of tuition, uniforms and books but we commited to the school and football so that is what we do.

Now if someone elses kid comes to my house to sell me something I do my best to buy something. Cookie dough and girl scout cookies being my favorite of course.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

yes.

the boxes of candy or flyers are put on tables in a common area - honor system and no pressure! We have taken DD's candy bars in and have had good luck.

 

[mjkacmom]

Not allowed.

 

[Stacerita]

Its against policy at my company.

 

[Becky2005]

Not allowed.

Which is why I have a lot of tubs of cookie dough in my refrigerator right now. DD was selling that cheerleading and they made it a minimum of 10 tubs you had to sell. We bought 5 ourselves.

I don't have that many people to ask, so between Cub Scout popcorn, cheerleading cookie dough, magazines (but I don't ask anyone for that) & the new one is cheesecake for choir.

The cheesecake for choir is one of the nicer ones though because that goes directly into DD's account for their bi-annual choir trip (which is *usually* Disney!). Out of all the years selling, it was one that I was excited to buy because I like cheesecake and with the holidays coming up that will work well. I did have a cousin tell me to make sure we call her next year when it's cheesecake time because her DD is a Senior this year in choir and her last child. I also liked that it was one of the fundraisers that there was *no minimum* -- if you wanted to sell fine, helps you out defraying your trip cost. If you don't sell anything, that's fine too.

 

[creativeamanda]

Not allowed and funnily enough, I work for a school district. They don't even want the fliers for their own schools in the office.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Yes at both of our jobs.


I have raised over $500 so far for my CHOC walk in a short time, and I buy everything from all of the kids of colleagues.

I like that it is so open. No one feels pressure to buy stuff you don't want to buy, and there is always some good candy to buy!

 

[rentayenta]

Neither of our places of employment have a no fundraising policy. I boycotted the kids' recent fundraiser: Sally Foster. Oy, it's garbage and the kids earn garbage in return for selling over -priced wrapping paper. I wrote the school a $50 check instead.

 

[marciemi]

yes.

the boxes of candy or flyers are put on tables in a common area - honor system and no pressure! We have taken DD's candy bars in and have had good luck.

Ditto where DH works. Before we moved, he was the "boss" for his company in that area (small location) and he never felt comfortable bringing anything in because others might feel pressured to buy stuff. Now that we've moved to where his corporate HQ's are with a zillion people, he has enough peers that he would feel comfortable asking, plus is allowed to put things like candy bars out in the common area as well.

Of course as my kids have gotten older, we've just kind of backed away from fundraisers. My youngest son was talking about how half of their soccer practice was devoted to what they could win if they sold enough for their fundraiser. I looked through his backpack and asked him where his information was on the sale. He told me he hadn't gotten any. When I asked why, he was like "You didn't really want to buy any wrapping paper and stuff, did you?"

There are only 4 of us where I work so I wouldn't feel comfortable selling anything there unless I knew someone bought something normally (ie if I knew one of the others always bought an entertainment book I might ask). So far I haven't and no one else has either.

It does bother me that now that some of our neighbors' kids are getting in school they are coming to us. Um, I never bothered you with any of my 3 kids' fundraisers for the last several years - why would you think I would want to buy your kids?! Of course my kids do still have them - I'll just send each of them over to reciprocate next!

 

[Took]

yes.

the boxes of candy or flyers are put on tables in a common area - honor system and no pressure! We have taken DD's candy bars in and have had good luck.

Same for both me and my SO. Very generous policies and no friction, thank goodness.

 

[aprilgail2]

Not allowed and funnily enough, I work for a school district. They don't even want the fliers for their own schools in the office.

Wow thats weird- they don't even have the own schools fundraiser out to buy? The teachers in my daughters school are some of our best costumers-almost every teacher buys something out of the catalog for the school-this year we are doing pies and one teacher bought 10 pies!

 

[Piecey]

It's against the policy at my company, too, but since there are only 5 of us in our office (we're a tiny tiny office compared to the others) and we've all known each other for years one of them will usually say

"Summer's selling cookie dough if anyone is interested I can bring the sheet in" and so on.

I don't have a problem with it being approached like that...

DH's office, definitely not. He works for the government.

 

[daisyduck123]

I'm a teacher in a public elem. school. We're allowed to bring in our children's fundraising forms. We just leave them in the copy room for people to browse & order if they wish. I'll be bringing in DS10's popcorn order form for scouts later this week.