Door to door charity fundraising...

savemoney

Oh dear I do hope others who work for charities dont take this view just because people dont want to donate you then view them as idiots

Well done!!!!!!

tesphen wrote: »

I love having a laugh with my teamsters at ignorant idiots like yourself after I ring your doorbell.

fantasia322

Job No:

HRG/25354
Wage

£7 TO £20 PER HOUR

Hours

MON-FRI 9-6

Location

EDINBURGH EH1

Duration

Permanent

Date posted

24 August 2010

Closing date

20 September 2010

Pension details

No details held

Description

Do you want to make a difference Are you ready to take your career to the next level, whilst making the world a better place. If you have previously worked in sales, retail, customer care or the service industry, and have great communication skills, we have an amazing position for you You will be working as part of a like minded team, covering your local . area with travel provided Talking to members of the public in residential areas or busy high streets, and inspiring them to support the charities that we represent such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, The Woodland Trust and our parent charity The Aspinall Foundation.We offer a basic rate of 7 per hour with amazing on target earnings of 500 per week Call today on 01303 234106 for interview and immediate start.

How to apply

For further details about job reference HRG/25354, please telephone Jobseeker Direct on 0845 6060 234. Lines are open 8.00am - 6.00pm weekdays, 9.00am - 1.00pm Saturday. All calls are charged at local rate. Call charges may be different if you call from a mobile phone. Alternatively, visit your local Jobcentre Plus Office and use the customer access phones provided to call Jobseeker Direct. The textphone service for deaf and hearing-impaired people is 0845 6055 255.

Just lets you see the earning potential (dont know if this is allowed but if I've posted wrongly then perhaps a board guide could kindly remove)

Googlewhacker

fantasia322 wrote: »

Yes they get paid. The marketing organising that employs the Chuggers are paid approximately (depending on the Company) between £69 and £120 per direct debit of £8 a month and over.
The charity justify this by saying that for every £1 spent on fundrising, they make £3. But on saying this if the chugger doesnt sign up a donor for the minimum donation, then they DO NOT get paid.

I might see what the minimum donation is and then offer 1p under it and see whether they refuse to take my money!

madfrenchgirl

Well, it's not just down to chuggers or rude charity shop staff anymore... It's even spreading to the world of music too.

I am in a covers band and we do our bits for charity, we usually drive miles, lug our gear around for the pleasure of playing to a crowd and all for free and for a good cause. We recently got involved with a certain music festival organised by a well known high street charity that rhymes with "jam" and starts with the alternative name of a bull. The aim is to raise money, we get it fair enough. We have come a long way from some venues not paying us anything at all and not even giving us free drinks, so we're more than happy to do for charity. Usually when we play for charities, it is organised by a group of individuals and spans across several participating pubs, we do not get asked to bring a "following" with us. It's usually a deal between the pubs and the charity that brings the money in and there is a hat going round for collections.

The high profile charity music festival I was talking about earlier asked us to drive there at our own costs, on a Wednesday night (we all have jobs), to participate in a "Battle of the Bands". The winners of said Battle would then get a slot at the actual music festival on the big day and a photo session with a professional photographer. Now the second prize is bogus: if you are serious enough about your band, there are plenty of photographers who are happy to help out in returns for credits.

Then 2 weeks before the Battle, the kicker hit us: they "forgot" to mention they had costs of £150 for that evening and expectd us to bring 15 people on a schoolnight at £4 a pop to see us play for a mere 25 minutes.

So hold on, you want us to come and play for free and racketteer our friends for you for a prize we do not give 2 hoots about all for the privilege of getting asked to bring yet more people to your big event...?

I do realise the aim of a charity is to make money but in our town, the organisers of this event have lost the plot and only think about what they can get out of everyone else.

marleyboy

Your the prime example of what a charitable cause is all about, so much hard graft with not only no pay, but at your own expense, well done! Should you ever play in Manchester, I will be more than happy to donate to your cause.

hollydays

The ones that bug me are like last week.
Not charity,but chancers.
they "have just been speaking to my neighbour"
and " are dyslexic". (can't read my no doorstepsellers sign,then?)They show me some lousy fake bit of sticky back plastic i/d
do i want to " buy any tea towels "etc.
or they put on a fake act that they are special needs/deaf,
grrrrr:mad:.
Charities i just say no thank you to.

marleyboy

hollydays wrote: »

The ones that bug me are like last week.
Not charity,but chancers.
they "have just been speaking to my neighbour"
and " are dyslexic"
do i want to " buy any tea towels "etc.
or they put on a fake act that they are special needs
grrrrr:mad:
charities i just say no to.

That sounds like those Gypsies that try n sell lucky charms, I havent come across that type yet, that sounds absolutely outrageous, lets hope they can lip read

Payless_2

tesphen wrote: »

The minimum donation you can make is £8 a month and most of my sign-ups come from people in their 20s and 30s.



I have a very worthy job. I get to work outside in the sunshine alongside some lovely people, and I get to meet interesting people every day.

Plenty of people are happy to speak to and engage with me, I certainly get enough decent interaction from people to make up for the middle-aged grumps. Its not wrong at all, I've made plenty of money for charity, and had lots of fun doing it.

I love having a laugh with my teamsters at ignorant idiots like yourself after I ring your doorbell.

Says it all really.

They've obviously put an awful lot into your training. I haven't looked to see how many people have read this thread but I bet you've just put all of them off donating to any charity via a chugger.

Apart from that, if you've only worked outside in the sunshine you clearly haven't even been doing the job for very long. Never mind. You've still made a hell of an impact.

Enfieldian

tesphen wrote: »

I have to knock on your door. Its my job.



I just think its politeness to give someone 5 seconds. If someone walked up to you on the street or knocked on your door to ask you for directions or something you wouldn't tell them to f*** off, would you? Its common courtesy is all. And I've already said, I, and no-one in my organization is allowed to use hard sell tactics.



I have a proper job. I enjoy it.

Well, you really don't get it do you?

Have you been brainwashed by the Cobra Group or similar?

By the way, how do your job "skills" stack up in the real world?

I know - the photos are on the chugger's facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2244819272

And by God, that was scary, unwashed hippy types lolling about in bedsits....... Not for the faint hearted.

dacouch

Stephen.....