Statement is very true. Everytime my grocery store asks for donations at the cash, I just tell the cashier no and the billion dollar company should just do it themselves and not use me as a tax write off.
They typically are shocked and don’t know how to reply. It’s quite amusing.
Yeah wow you really owned that cashier who is neither a billionaire nor responsible for decisions made by their employer. You sound like a douche.
I listen to a podcast debunking Alex Jones. He tells stories exactly in the same fashion, but usually about face masks not working, Covid denial, or some new world order nonsense. Including the whole cashier was shocked or thanked him blah blah blah. Insufferable.
They typically are shocked and don’t know how to reply. It’s quite amusing.
Or they just don’t have enough energy and paycheck to deal with your bullshit.
Seriously, is this what you think eating the rich looks like? Being an asshole to public-facing workers?
It’s not being an asshole…it’s called giving my opinion. They ask, I give. Why just say no like a mindless sheep…maybe the cashier’s will listen and stop asking. They are paid to ring up products, not beg.
If the rich fucker was there, I’d be a real asshole. What I do, is only considered by weak minded people who can’t be offended by anything.
yet they have the energy to beg for money for a billion dollar corporation?
it’s called keeping your shitty job because you don’t have the choice or privilege to tell them otherwise.
Thank you for showing that you’ve never worked a day in your life or have the privilege to say whatever you want without consequence.
I do…don’t ask me to donate to a billionaire if you don’t want to hear my reason why I don’t. It’s always polite, you idiots seem to think I’m being an aggressive asshole.
As if the cashier is trying to engage in a discussion of class. As if they aren’t paid to ask. Just say no and feel secure with your own reasons without having to justify yourself. It’s like when I worked at ace hardware in high school and every boomer would need to tell me how dumb it is to phase out incandescent light bulbs. Trying to preach to someone about your convictions against their will is so pointless and annoying.
As others have said, you can only write off money you donate. They didn’t donate it, you did.
Even if you gave it to them then they donate it, they’d have to count it as income and pay tax on it then donate it to get the tax break. But that’d just cancel itself out anyways.
I have no idea why they ask for donations. Best guess is pr.
For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.
Nope, that’s not actually how it works in the US (can’t speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you’re eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.
The company doesn’t get to write it off as their donation, because it’s not. For them it’s pretty neutral, they’re receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.
Note: I can’t speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it’s still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven’t looked into that side.
Annoyed as fuck and wanting you to leave.
Not shocked. Have a lot of replies, but not allowed to call anyone the R bomb either, so they’re usually holding their tongues.
Being an asshole to the worker is the exact opposite of taking a “sharp witted and coy” shot at billionaires, but is just really fucking stupid.
Thank you AnarchKaren.
Who said I was an asshole about it…stop assuming stuff, makes you stinky.
The real asshole is the BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ASKING FOR HANDOUTS and using underpayed employment to do it…
Then go write an email to the CEO instead of bothering the cashiers for something they’re literally forced to ask you.
