Mildly Infuriating

My favorite one is when our utility company asks me to donate to help pay for people's utilities like they aren't raking in record amount of cash.

First, please don't link to Reddit...

Many Of The Largest Charities In America Are Giant Money Making Scams
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/many-of-the-largest-charities-in-america-are-giant-money-making-scams

Or just...donate the perfectly good food they constantly throw out into the cadged dumpsters designed to keep homeless people out... Litteraly would cost them nothing...

Remember kids, they also get to use the money they guilted off of you to reduce their tax liability because they get credit for donating your money!

Edit: I'll be dammed looks like I was wrong. Here is an article on why you might not want to donate anyway. I stand corrected.

Those donations you make can help them deduct from taxes, right?

Those charities have huge overhead. Very little money goes to the actual cause.

Shell's audacity too...

I hate when any company I'm buying something from does this.

I just say no

It's still fine.

Some big international store in europe is asking to buy food from them for full price and donate it to food bank. Fuckin hilarious for making profit on charity.

I hate these donate screens because I have no idea where the donation actually goes and i don't want to have to do a ton of research at the grocery checkout about whether its a good charity.

And I will never ever give these fools my actual phone number for discounts. Just use any area code w/ 867-5309 to get around this.

PSA: most Americans can get up to $300 deducted from their annual taxes through donations.

It's so they can get a tax write off for your donation.

I don’t trust them to actually donate anyway. How would you ever find out? I suspect these are scams to hold the money and get interest off it even if they do ultimately donate it.

Just FYI this is a sort of scam. ~~The company donates the money on your behalf and they get the tax write-off for your donation while also appearing philanthropic for PR purposes~~. that's why they do it.

EDIT: US companies cannot do this in the US you can claim up to $300 on taxes. This is legit in the US.

To be fair, I bet these companies strike deals with the charitable organizations to in turn raise visibility of those charities among the company's customers.

They wouldn't be rich if they donated THEIR money, right?

People that give money for those charities are giving those companies free tax write offs.

You donate $10 or whatever. The company can then claim that $10 as a write off via donation to that charity. Campaign as a whole (either regional or national) collects $1M USD. Corporate accountants write off donation. Tax liability reduced.

Please don't link to Reddit.

I hate when they pull this shit at drive through fast food. “Would you like to round up to donate to our charity?”

Who knows what the person taking my order thinks about this charity, and what they might do to someone’s food who says no.

Edit: The fact that merely implying a fast food worker wouldn’t be a complete perfect human being gets so many downvotes says a whole lot about this community.

Then they will say it is more efficient to merge the donations with regular revenue and make bulk donations every quarter or something.