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yeah, it gets frustrating when you're bombarded with calls by them as well as those PPI/whatever robocalls. I've cancelled my donations to several charities be
by linuxydave 11y ago
yeah, it gets frustrating when you're bombarded with calls by them as well as those PPI/whatever robocalls.
I've cancelled my donations to several charities because of their harassment and their pushiness makes me wonder if they are actually using their money on the people they're claiming to help :/
- milesskorpen 11y agoIn many cases, they aren't: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
- linuxydave 11y ago>:(
- batou 11y agoThis doesn't surprise me. Back in about 2002 the company i worked for built a shitty intranet for a major high street charity in the UK. Cost them £100,000...
- linuxydave 11y agoI'm in the wrong job... :p
- batou 11y agoEveryone's in the right job. You just have to find customers who don't know how much everyone else charges :)
- linuxydave 11y agoHaha, cynical but true. Reminds me of this: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-paid-R40m-for-website-20130304 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-pa... (R40m is ~$3,211,291)
- batou 11y agoWow now that's special!