Gannett paper: you have to reapply for your job, and while you're at it ...

Attend a meeting and sign a pledge card to the United Way. Nice job, Montgomery Advertiser publisher. You win Corporate Boob of the Day:

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/10/23/yes-you-might-lose-your-job-but-how-about-giving-some-money-to-united-way/

Unionize, good people of Montgomery. Unionize.

 

You should see a psychiatrist. This obsession is unhealthy.

 

I'm not the one who is providing the material for these posts. The material speaks for itself. I just post it.

 

Fuck the United Way and the heavy-handed tactics employers use to "encourage" people to give.

 

Worked at a place when the publisher wanted 100 percent participation, even if that meant a one-time donation. There was a drawing for a gift card among all who donated.

One reporter, who made very little money and had a young child, borrowed $1, made the one-time donation and won the drawing.

 

We had one of those United Way "drives" at my paper about four or five years ago. I took the paperwork, threw it in the trash and never heard another word about it.

Publishers have some nerve dunning their serfs.

 

Good for him.

And good for him/her.

I worked for MG as well, and I didn't pledge to UW in part because of the pressure. Which is a shame for the United Way. I'll donate to who I choose to donate to, thanks.

 

I've never understood the drives and the pressure from publishers and management to give to United Way, especially when most of us make about 1/5 what they do.

I do understand that United Way is one of the most crooked, corrupt charities you can give to and it's been that way for a good 50-60 years.

My newspaper has pushed this shit on us for a decade or more. Once a year, we get a memo, a pledge card or some bullshit flyer asking/suggesting that we donate. I just toss it in the trash.

About eight years ago, my publisher even asked why I won't give and I told him the truth. My family had a bad experience with United Way and they'll never see a nickel of my money. That's all I told him. I still get the pledge cards and memos, but I haven't been personally asked to give since.

For the record, I'm happy to donate a few bucks to the Humane Society when they pass that stuff out. But the United Way ain't getting shit from me.

 

It's not just Montgomery -- pretty sure this is Gannett-wide. (We got the forms at my shop, too.) I got them a decade ago when I worked in Tribune Co. as well. There was a huge push for 100 percent return of forms, even if you weren't donating.

Still haven't filled out my first one.

 

What is the relationship between newspapers and the United Way? Every paper I've worked at has collected money for them.