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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 108737 09-25-2012 07:07 PM

we did that @ american express... and we built homes as part of habitat for humanity...

I donno wasn't so bad, instead of dealing with irate customers I got to lay tile... which frankly was more fun than normal work.

pretty sure I got paid at normal rates too, I forget.

Oh well.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 116749 09-25-2012 07:08 PM

Gracie Wrote:

Doesn't Whole Foods force its employees to volunteer a minimum number of hours per year? I don't think it's all that uncommon any more for corporations to force their employees to volunteer. The volunteering improves the image of the corporation, making the company look good to local communities and share holders.

This, and I totally agree about how it effects at the local level.

Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 82293 09-25-2012 07:09 PM

The Evil AC Wrote:

Today is my company's Forced Volunteerism Day (that's not what THEY call it).

Project ideas are submitted by employees, approved, then we all must sign up for a project by a deadline (if we don't do that fast enough, we get a friendly email reminder every day until we do :-)).

If we choose not to participate or can not participate for any reason, we must take 4 hours of PTO - we may not work unless we are considered mission critical for that time period and that is approved from the top.

We must wear our Forced Volunteerism Day shirts which are issued when we first participate as hew hires. If we lose, destroy or no longer fit into our shirts, shirts are available for purchase for $6.40. We must have our shirt orders in two weeks in advance in order to participate.

We are to report to the location designated by our volunteer team lead for lunch (paid for by the company up to a N dollar limit (not sure what it is this year)) and then on to our respective volunteer sites where we must volunteer for 4 hours.

Any deviation from the above results in the forfeiture of 4 hours Paid Time Off. There will be lots of pictures. We may wear jeans to work that day ONLY if participating.

Happy Forced Volunteerism Day!

(So, LOP, is this a good thing or a bad thing for a public corporation?)

Seem like their was a movie like this TPS cover sheets the boss volunteering you ta work weekends an sayin :THAT WOULD BE GREAT! OH yeah OFFICE SPACE Watch the cornhole. Jptdknpa

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 09-25-2012 09:57 PM

Nope - not bullshit ... I picked evil because it's first in the list ...

so ...

it's over ...

after lunch there was 1:40 of folding clothing donations, no more volunteering needed at that location, so we called it a day

well, the amount of actual productive volunteer work done for the amount of publicity that will be generated for the company was bullshit ... but the post wasn't

now I'm going to have a drink on company volunteer time

4 different people, 2 from the company, 4 from the newspapers took pics ... they'll get a lot out of it