Per the note from Management it’s time once again for the annual United way “drive”
I wonder if this year there will be auction opportunities for rides in managers exotic cars, tours of wine collections, private one on one dinners or? Note all of these and more were part of past United way “auctions”.
Let us see what this year brings!
Give your charitable donations to local charities where you know where your hard earned money is going!
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Our “leaders” are talking themselves into getting the lemmings to bid on having a beer with them at a local Houston brewery. The “smart” one in the bunch remembered that the last time they did this (pre COVID), it cost them more to rent the brewery than they got in bids.
They’d set a better example by publicizing their giving directly to UW than trying to pi-p themselves out to their own organization. Their egos are ridiculous.
@vqw - it’s the charities that do the “good work”, not UW !
UW is alleged to be one of the most corrupt non-profits out there. I looked up 3 years of audit reports for our local chapter in NJ. Hardly anything was left from annual donations, once all of the expenses (salaries, benefits, rental, travel, promotions, etc) were taken out.
Give your money directly to your chosen charity. They’ll get far more that way, than after UW have taken their lion’s share from it.
Everyone - you do realize that non-profits in the USA only have to pass on a minimum of 5% of the donations to charitable causes - right ?
An exciting new auction entry this year is a ride aboard the infamous Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound.
The tour will be hosted by our trusty marine transportation expert turned HR VP: TG.
TG will accept no questions about an alleged massive oil spill many years ago in Alaska nor will she answer any questions about HR-related actions over the last year and a half, such as disguised layoffs in the form of PIPs, taking away the savings plan match for a year, treating loyal employees like trash and seemingly proudly presiding over disastrously low employee morale.
Bids for this horrible experience are expected to open at 1 cent. Winning bid is expected to be made by one of TG’s desperate and shameless HR direct reports.
Oh dont get me started on UW and those pesky emails. These United Way people have got to realize we can see right thru them and all the their corruption.
Never give a dime to this criminal organization.
I DELETE all the Emails
Specifically the ones that say …pease read
The fact that the company continues its whole United Way spiel as if nothing has happened is somewhere between sadistic and illustrating the concept of the ostrich hiding its head in the sand.
Decades ago the company could hope that by pressuring its employees to donate it might look like a good corporate citizen, on other people’s money. Now that the public image of the oil companies is atrocious - they’re the black beast that so many love to hate - the benefit went down to zero.
It’s mostly a chance for the company to see who asks “How high?” when they say “Jump!”.
This is so disingenuous. If WAEM really cared about people, they should start by focusing on not making working conditions so unbearable that it forces talented employees to race out the door. Then force the lemmings to give their fair share? Thank you but I’ll choose my own worthy charities without the arm twisting.
United Way in the past was a great way to give but the Houston area UW has lost their way. It started with funding 211,which is basically the customer service line for the TX Health and Human Services Agency. Why is my charitable giving funding something that the state should do? Secondly the ALICE thing is a way to use my charitable giving to prop up some businesses low wage business model. That problem is easy to solve-pay a livable wage not spend all of my giving to get your profits. I want my money to go to at risk youth and children, people with disabilities and others who are in circumstances beyond their control or can be fixed with appropriate spending by the state agencies and businesses. Give directly to the organizations of your choice not the UW.
I can’t believe that the manager at my old site had the nerve to write to me this year, asking me to contribute to EM’s UW campaign for 2022. That’s after they NSI’d me last year, basically forcing me to PIL to early retirement.
I’m going to send the letter back to them, telling them where they can shove it. Bloody nerve of them !
I won a color tv at one of these events.
Also built 8 playhouses for kids in the Houston Head Start program.
All in a day.
Good luck to those bidding on having lunch with a top dog. Lol
What a joke.
Who is up for #winning auction for a private lunch with none other than our spinless CEO Mr. Woods. Is he going to donate anything? You guessed it right.
First, United Way have zero value for me or for the charities. I would much rather give directly to the charities than let United eat cream money off the top. I looked at the audit reports for UW of Gloucester County over a 3-year period. By the time that all expenses (wages, pensions, medical/dental, building rent, travel, prizes/incentives) were accounted for, there was less than $3K of donations remaining to pass onto charities.
Second - I was PIP’d last year and took the PIL option, but I still haven’t found suitable employment. I could not believe the nerve of the managers (VP level) of my former site. They sent me a letter asking me to contribute to EM’s UW campaign for 2022. I’m going to return the letter, telling them where they can stuff it !!!
United Way does good work.
Kind of ironic name for an ExxonMobil partner.
No raises, no promotions, no 401k, my “fair share” is zero
Please Sir, may I have some more? More PIP’ing....?